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In good news for breathing aficionados everywhere, the Trump administration is preparing for what Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin is calling “the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States” by finding that when you exhale, you’re not endangering the planet.
For sixteen years it was settled law in the United States of America that not only was the earth endangered, all evidence to the contrary, but that exhaling carbon dioxide and emitting methane as well as nitrous oxide and water vapor were urgent threats to be regulated by the government.
The Obama administration spent its first months in office fanatically rushing through a ‘scientific review’ by the EPA that declared that carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and others were part of an ominous group known as “greenhouse gases” that had to be fought with every regulation necessary. The Obama EPA did thankfully exclude H20 or water vapor, probably the leading ‘greenhouse gas’ which ‘scientists’ blamed for about half the ‘greenhouse effect’.
Even the EPA understood that no one would take it seriously if it promised to get the water out of the air to save the planet. Not even if they renamed it something scary like Dihydrogen Monoxide.
The theoretical legal basis for having the government go to war against carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide (with water vapor waiting somewhere in the wings) was the Clean Air Act. The CAA had been created in the sixties to keep pollutants from factories out of the air. The Obama administration rebooted it to keep carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide out of the air which would only be possible with the extermination of all life on earth. Hope and Change.
What started with tracking smokestacks and acid rain had escalated into total genocide based on a myth about ‘greenhouse gases’ that had originally been derived from Percival Lowell, a 19th century New England dilletante who looked at Mars through a defective telescope and decided it had canals, and further decided that the canals had been built by Martians to conserve water because their planet had suffered an environmental crisis.
Despite being wrong about literally everything (much like the EPA and environmentalists), Lowell began writing extensive speculation about what life was like on Mars and Venus. Many took to speculating that Mars had lost its water and grew cold because it lost its atmosphere and that Venus became too hot because the planet trapped gases due to a “greenhouse effect”.
The term “greenhouse effect” was coined in response to Lowell’s planetary speculations.
Lowell was wrong about Mars and Venus, Obama was wrong about Earth. Lowell had a better excuse for confusing the lines on his telescope with canals than Obama, the EPA and liberal environmentalists do for being wrong about everything happening on the planet around them.
There’s no greenhouse effect, the icebergs aren’t melting, the climate isn’t being fundamentally transformed, the earth isn’t being endangered and human beings and farming aren’t to blame.
The EPA’s finding that exhaling and cow flatulence, as well fertilizer, endangered the planet was always wrong, it also, like so much that Barack Obama did, happened to be completely illegal.
Carbon dioxide, methane and other basic gases of life are not ‘pollutants’ that lower air quality. The EPA shoehorned an entirely different theory about the planet into the Clean Air Act that, despite a wrongful Supreme Court finding, the legislation from the 1960s was never meant for.
Furthermore the EPA’s Inspector General found that the agency had violated its own regulations, failed to run it by peer review and outsourced the whole thing to the UN’s IPCC organization (which the Trump administration recently pulled out of) that was at the time run by a railway engineer.
Rajendra Pachauri, the Indian railway engineer in question, was forced to resign from serving as chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2015 after winning the Nobel Peace Prize and multiple accusations of sexual harassment. He was also forced to admit that the IPCC’s prediction that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 were only based on a report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) which based it on a claim made by Syed Iqbal Hasnain, a Muslim ‘glaciologist’ in India in an interview to a reporter back in 1999, but had never written it down because it was “speculative”. If you stop by the Himalayas, the glaciers are there. And they’re probably not going to disappear in the next ten years either.
The Obama EPA claimed that it had to ban carbon dioxide because an Indian Muslim glaciologist made a “speculative” statement to a reporter in 1999 that never happened.
Percival Lowell confusing lines on his telescope for canals and inventing an entire Martian civilization (and in the process an entire genre of Science Fiction) was more scientifically rigorous than the EPA, the UN, the WWF and the entire environmentalist movement.
Removing the ‘endangerment’ finding is long overdue. It will mean lower energy costs, including gas prices (outside California, which requires a special seasonal fuel blend that comes from one refinery in Alaska and is taxed sixty different ways in order to save the planet) which will mean a healthier economy, more jobs and less worries that breathing will destroy the planet.
(Outside California.)
That’s a good thing for everyone except the tens of thousands of people employed in the environmental industry whose mission is to shut down, tax and take a piece of every actual productive industry in the country and on the planet. California, Massachusetts and other failed states will respond by unilaterally regulating the carbon dioxide, methane and other terrifying ‘greenhouse gases’ which will naturally skew the market across half the country for the worse.
You may be sure however that Gov. Gavin Newsom will sneak off to take a few breaths, mask off, at the French Laundry, no matter how much he regulates everyone else’s CO2 levels.
But the good news for the rest of us is that the earth isn’t endangered. So breathe freely.
Language matters, and the loony left is quite good at manipulating it. Consider the anti-CO2 jihadists. They used to talk about the “greenhouse effect.” But it did not help them. Commercial greenhouses spend money to increase the CO2 level. It stimulates plant growth through photosynthesis. CO2, water, and light are the main nutrients for plants. Stimulating plant growth does not fit the narrative of the anti-CO2 lobby.
So the anti-CO2 crowd switched to the term “global warming.” But warming lengthens the growing season. The term was not useful in appealing to people in cool climates. And whenever it was colder than usual, people would think that they could use some global warming.
So the anti-CO2 agitators switched to the term “climate change.” If you think it is too hot, it is because of CO2. If you think it is too cold, CO2 is the culprit. If you think it is too wet or too dry, blame CO2. CO2 became an all-purpose boogeyman for whenever people dislike the weather.
Yet the environmental industrial complex pretty much ignores population growth. There are over three times the carbon footprints than before WWII. The complex does not want to be accused of racism or islamophobia.
If CO2 were to drop too low, say 150 ppm, then we will all die. Currently it is a bit over 400 ppm and even if it were 5 times that it would beneficial, not harmful, and not effecting the climate negatively.
It actually got dangerously close to the 150 ppm level about 20,000 years ago, dipping to 182 ppm. CO2 levels have been in a long term decline since the PreCambrian era, when they peaked around 8,000 ppm. There was a low point of around 300 ppm in the Permian period around 250 million years ago, but CO2 ramped back up after that. During the Carboniferous period (when many of the fossil fuel beds were laid down, CO2 was between 4,000 ppm and 300 ppm.
What’s interesting about CO2 and temperature, but which is never mentioned by the climate change gang, is that if you examine the relationship between CO2 and temperature long term (back to the PreCambrian era) there is very little correlation. On shorter time scales, there is correlation but the temperature peaks BEFORE the CO2 level peaks. That is, temperature leads CO2. This is the opposite of what would be happpening if CO2 were causing temperature rise.
More the point, two greenhouses side by side with the same plants, the same inputs, the only difference being CO2 levels both show the same temperatures.
If our breathing really effected the Climate as the Climate Change nutcakes claim the whole planet would have died with Adam & Eve
I still remember books from the 1950s that said Mars had canals and such.
And Venus had jungles and oceans.
Movies are still being made of a terraformed Mars with people walking around like they’re in Earth gravity, breathing an atmosphere without deadly temperature extremes and enduring hard radiation. I hate that stupid shit.
Recommendations from a hardcore scifi nerd: (1) assume the planets have all been completely terraformed, or (2) don’t watch that garbage.
Yes, good advice although it’s impossible to give Mars an Earth equivalent atmosphere. Such a hypothetical atmosphere could protect people from solar radiation but nothing could be done about temperature extremes, and the insufficient gravity would cause muscle deterioration, circulatory damage, organ damage and eventual death.
Mars bases would be possible in the far flung future but permanent settlement will always be impossible, even in enclosed spaces.
We just need to severely reduce the number of islamopithecines here on Earth and civilize or cleanse the Turd World out from the West as much as humanely possible. The Turd World will either solve its self inflicted failures or it won’t. The West cant civilize it. Our incompetent governments have tried for centuries and failed. Only colonialism worked and that’s considered forbidden by decadent Western governments and the oikophobic left. Planet Earth can sustain humanity for as long as we survive but many cultures can’t sustain themselves in large numbers without Western largesse.
Obama and his whack EPA were classic climate idiots.
And world class liars. Bareback Hasbeen Osama still claims he’s a black, Christian hetero, for example.
If I thought I could asphyxiate some lefty science deniers with my methane farts, I’d eat more beans. I’d settle for seeing them gag.
I hope President Trump includes the banning of Bovaer in his efforts to return to normalcy in farming.
In case people don’t know, in Europe dairy companies such as ARLA have hooked up with the likes of Bill Gates to feed cows with a substance called Bovaer which is advertised as reducing or eliminating bovine farts and thus reducing the amount of Methane being discharged to the atmosphere.
If this programme wasn’t so demonically evil, it would be laughable.
I recall some time ago, perhaps 10 or so years, some idiot in New Zealand was proposing that dairy cattle should be fitted with nappies (diapers) to catch their faeces thereby doing something to protect the environment.
We have too many idiots and wicked people in positions of authority and influence in the West and the sooner they are gone the better for all of us.
Mmm… Let’s do the math; Earth has a great Atmosphere for Life: 71% Nitrogen, 28% Oxygen, 1% “Other gases”: Neon, Argon, Ozone, Radon, Methane, Xenon, “Halitosis”, “B.O.”, and, almost forgot, CO2! WOW! The Tail DOES wag the Climate Dog – NOT! It’s THE SUN that causes ALL Weather and “Climate”, both on Earth, and every OTHER planet in the Solar System (and it ALSO causes EARTHQUAKES!). Take THAT to the Bank!