That’s the idea behind a new study from a team of researchers at the University of Colorado law school, who worked full time for nearly six months on a project that could help the next U.S. president make sweeping climate-change policies — fast. The new report probes the edges of executive orders and lays out the authority the next president could use to introduce global-warming policies without waiting for legislation to wind its way through the notoriously slow congressional machine.
“Given the extreme importance of climate change, this is a way for the next president to be able to take rapid action,” said Kevin Doran, a researcher at CU’s Center for Energy and Environmental Security. . . .
The report is part of a larger project, the Presidential Climate Action Project, which has created “a bold, comprehensive and non-partisan plan for presidential leadership rooted in climate science,” according to its Web site, www.climateactionproject .com.
Unprecedented executive power for fighting terrorists that have attacked us before and won’t stop until they kill us all? Fascism!!1! Unprecedented executive power for fighting something that is based on shaky science, fewer than half of published scientists actually believe, and may be entirely wrong? Power to the chief, baby!
Via Glenn Reynolds.


by Stephan Tawney on April 7, 2008