Climate Change/Mass Extinction Megathread

[crazy canuck]

Before the US Supreme Court changed the Chevron test, I would have said this decision would certainly have been quashed by the court.  But now I am not so sure. 

[The Brain]

Weird to have scientific findings as political decisions.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Before the US Supreme Court changed the Chevron test, I would have said this decision would certainly have been quashed by the court.  But now I am not so sure. 

I don't understand.  My understanding of Chevron is that the decision, and resulting "Chevron deference", defended a similar action by the EPA against a challenge by an environmental group.  I would assume reversing that deference would make it easier to challenge this (though I think it won't matter either way with this court).

[crazy canuck]

Under the new test the judge gets to decide whether the decision is reasonable - the Chevron test required the judge to determine whether the reasons for making the decision were reasonable.  The reasons for making this decision would not have withstood scrutiny.

[mongers]

Interesting:

Rainfall in the UK between October-March has increased markedly since the Industrial Revolution

From this bbc item here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cgrz24y2wvno

And also from that article, more locally to me:



I'm sometime to be found walking along that raised town parth in the foreground, though obviously not for a while.

[Norgy]

This has been the case for Norway as well. When it rains, it pours. Our infrastructure has been found wanting and we are woefully ill prepared for the weather changing. As some probably know, Norway is sort of... hilly and with mountains. Large quantities of water from above tend to release whatever light stones and soil in huge mudslides. This is bad. As people live below hills. And mudslides are bad for houses. And that resale value.