Kyle
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Third World people doing Third World things.
Might be time for human extinction level event in the eastern hemisphere.
Climate Hypocrisy
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Third World people doing Third World things.
Might be time for human extinction level event in the eastern hemisphere.
Climate Change: What Can’t It Do?
Global warming morphed into climate change so that liberals could complain about any inconvenient weather and blame it on free enterprise. Thus, we have the absurd situation where liberals claim that “climate change” causes both excessive heat and excessive cold, whichever happens to be occurring at the moment.
This makes no sense. Saying that climate change causes warmer (or colder) weather is circular. It is like saying that my weight change caused me to get heavier. Blaming both heat and cold on climate change is like saying that my weight change caused me to get both heavier and lighter, at different times.
In any event, it isn’t true. Both extreme heat and extreme cold in the U.S. have become less frequent, not more frequent:
The Guardian called it a “gift to billionaire polluters.” The Times predicted deaths and Dengue (* not made up). You could practically hear the liberals hyperventilating through the safe-room paywall. Yesterday’s biggest story earned a whole section at the top of the New York Times’s web page, and was headlined, “Trump Repeals Key Greenhouse Gas Finding, Erasing EPA’s Power to Fight Climate Change.”
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In what the White House called “the single largest deregulatory action in American history,” President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin formally terminated the Obama-era “endangerment finding”— a 2009 regulatory determination that carbon dioxide, methane, and four other greenhouse gases endanger public health. That simple finding cascaded into hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands of rules, guidances, crimes, and other regulations.
EPA built the finding into a massive temple to the climate gods. Then last year, EPA Chief Zeldin made an unimaginable promise. He said he would “drive a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion.” We applauded the sentiment, but nobody believed he could pull it off.
Yesterday, Zeldin officially slid the dagger right between Big Climate’s ribs. The climate change religion will need more than thoughts and prayers.
Cue the hysteria! “This shameful abdication will harm Americans’ health, homes, and economic well-being,” ranted Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), whose scientific credentials include barbecuing raw burgers with slices of cheese already on them and then posting the pictures on X. Not a genius.
The dearly departed “endangerment finding” followed a 2007 Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA holding that greenhouse gases can be regulated under the Clean Air Act (but not must be regulated). Obama’s EPA took that ball and ran it in for a goal, publishing its 2009 “determination” that the six greenhouse gases threaten public health. It all sounds wonky, goofy, and harmless, but it was regulatory manure that fertilized vast fields of new rules and regulations.
Once CO2 was legally dangerous, the EPA could regulate basically anything that produces the common gas, like anything that burns fuel, moves, exhales, or farts. Cars, trucks, power plants, light bulbs, gas stoves— even backyard grills, if they felt like it. The EPA regulated reams of products, and would have eventually regulated cow ‘emissions,’ undersea volcanoes, and the hot air generated by Congress (which is by far the largest emitter on the planet).
That’s why revoking the “determination” didn’t just change a rule. It yanked the legal foundation out from under seventeen dreadful years of fantastically expensive and ever-expanding climate regulation. The downstream effects of ending it are impossible to overstate.
Every federal rule that used CO2’s “dangerous” status as its legal justification is now on shaky ground— and there are thousands of them.
Vehicle emission standards that added thousands of dollars to the price of every new car and truck. Power plant regulations that forced coal plants to close and drove up electricity bills. Energy efficiency mandates on everything from refrigerators to furnaces. Building codes requiring expensive “green” upgrades. Even federal procurement rules forcing agencies to buy electric vehicles.
All of it was anchored to that single 2009 finding. Yank the anchor, and the whole regulatory armada drifts out to sea. Industries that have spent billions on compliance are suddenly free. Energy costs should drop. And the armies of federal climate regulators who spent seventeen years building their empire will need to update their LinkedIn profiles.
Hey, it’s just about affordability. Right? Hello? MacFly?
The Times blamed “hard right” conservatives (its new label, replacing “far right”), and most of all —I am not making this up— Project 2025. The Times’ headline from Tuesday:
I don’t know about you, but I have lost track of the long list of evils that Democrats swear will destroy the planet every election cycle. Global cooling, global warming, oil shortages, oil excesses, nuclear winter, stranded polar bears, hair spray, mild viruses, scientists tinkering with dinosaur DNA, pickup trucks, MAGA hats, et cetera and so on.
The world actually ends, though, does it? At this point, the End of the World has more sequels than the Fast and Furious franchise, and roughly the same relationship to reality.
President Trump, in his classic style, told reporters the now-terminated endangerment finding was “all a scam, a giant scam” done by “stupid people.” They sneered at his unscientific language. Experts don’t talk like that! But they missed the gist; that was Trump’s unspoken point. Experts are stupid people who think they are smart.
The (new) EPA said the repeal will save Americans at least $1.3 trillion and roughly $2,400 per new vehicle. Democrats, who have spent nearly 20 years claiming that the planet was on the verge of climate collapse, were hysterical and vowed to sue. Read the Times article for a laugh.
CO2 was perfectly safe for the entire history of human civilization, then became “dangerous” in 2009, and is now safe again, as of yesterday afternoon. The molecule didn’t change. The politics did. Thank goodness. The green scam is disappearing into hot air.
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Public Advisory: Fear Not, Polar Bears Can Swim
In what the White House called “the single largest deregulatory action in American history,” President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin formally terminated the Obama-era “endangerment finding”— a 2009 regulatory determination that carbon dioxide, methane, and four other greenhouse gases endanger public health. That simple finding cascaded into hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands of rules, guidances, crimes, and other regulations.
EPA built the finding into a massive temple to the climate gods. Then last year, EPA Chief Zeldin made an unimaginable promise. He said he would “drive a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion.” We applauded the sentiment, but nobody believed he could pull it off.
Yesterday, Zeldin officially slid the dagger right between Big Climate’s ribs. The climate change religion will need more than thoughts and prayers.
Cue the hysteria! “This shameful abdication will harm Americans’ health, homes, and economic well-being,” ranted Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), whose scientific credentials include barbecuing raw burgers with slices of cheese already on them and then posting the pictures on X. Not a genius.
The dearly departed “endangerment finding” followed a 2007 Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA holding that greenhouse gases can be regulated under the Clean Air Act (but not must be regulated). Obama’s EPA took that ball and ran it in for a goal, publishing its 2009 “determination” that the six greenhouse gases threaten public health. It all sounds wonky, goofy, and harmless, but it was regulatory manure that fertilized vast fields of new rules and regulations.
Once CO2 was legally dangerous, the EPA could regulate basically anything that produces the common gas, like anything that burns fuel, moves, exhales, or farts. Cars, trucks, power plants, light bulbs, gas stoves— even backyard grills, if they felt like it. The EPA regulated reams of products, and would have eventually regulated cow ‘emissions,’ undersea volcanoes, and the hot air generated by Congress (which is by far the largest emitter on the planet).
That’s why revoking the “determination” didn’t just change a rule. It yanked the legal foundation out from under seventeen dreadful years of fantastically expensive and ever-expanding climate regulation. The downstream effects of ending it are impossible to overstate.
Every federal rule that used CO2’s “dangerous” status as its legal justification is now on shaky ground— and there are thousands of them.
Vehicle emission standards that added thousands of dollars to the price of every new car and truck. Power plant regulations that forced coal plants to close and drove up electricity bills. Energy efficiency mandates on everything from refrigerators to furnaces. Building codes requiring expensive “green” upgrades. Even federal procurement rules forcing agencies to buy electric vehicles.
All of it was anchored to that single 2009 finding. Yank the anchor, and the whole regulatory armada drifts out to sea. Industries that have spent billions on compliance are suddenly free. Energy costs should drop. And the armies of federal climate regulators who spent seventeen years building their empire will need to update their LinkedIn profiles.
Hey, it’s just about affordability. Right? Hello? MacFly?
The Times blamed “hard right” conservatives (its new label, replacing “far right”), and most of all —I am not making this up— Project 2025. The Times’ headline from Tuesday:
I don’t know about you, but I have lost track of the long list of evils that Democrats swear will destroy the planet every election cycle. Global cooling, global warming, oil shortages, oil excesses, nuclear winter, stranded polar bears, hair spray, mild viruses, scientists tinkering with dinosaur DNA, pickup trucks, MAGA hats, et cetera and so on.
The world actually ends, though, does it? At this point, the End of the World has more sequels than the Fast and Furious franchise, and roughly the same relationship to reality.
President Trump, in his classic style, told reporters the now-terminated endangerment finding was “all a scam, a giant scam” done by “stupid people.” They sneered at his unscientific language. Experts don’t talk like that! But they missed the gist; that was Trump’s unspoken point. Experts are stupid people who think they are smart.
The (new) EPA said the repeal will save Americans at least $1.3 trillion and roughly $2,400 per new vehicle. Democrats, who have spent nearly 20 years claiming that the planet was on the verge of climate collapse, were hysterical and vowed to sue. Read the Times article for a laugh.
CO2 was perfectly safe for the entire history of human civilization, then became “dangerous” in 2009, and is now safe again, as of yesterday afternoon. The molecule didn’t change. The politics did. Thank goodness. The green scam is disappearing into hot air.
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