This has made Warmists very, very unhinged
EPA pushes White House to ignore scientific finding that helped form current climate policy
The Environmental Protection Agency is reportedly calling on the Trump administration to strike down a landmark climate finding that cleared the way for regulating planet-warming and polluting greenhouse gas emissions.
A report from The Washington Post cited three people briefed on the matter, who said former Trump staff members had been advising the administration on repealing the finding.
“President Trump’s day one Executive Order, ‘Unleashing American Energy,’ gave the EPA Administrator a 30-day deadline to submit joint recommendations to the Director of [Office of Emergency Management], in collaboration with the heads of any other relevant agencies, on the legality and continuing applicability of the 2009 Endangerment Finding,” a spokesperson for the agency told The Independent in an emailed statement on Wednesday.
“EPA is in compliance with this aspect of the President’s Executive Order,” they said. The order had asked the EPA to review the “legality and continuing applicability” of the finding, giving them 30 days to do so.
The endangerment finding under the Clean Air Act was signed by then-administrator Lisa Jackson, who was nominated by Barack Obama ahead of his first term in 2009.
Give it the public comments period, then strike it down. They can use as proof that it is pure bullshit Obama’s own massive use of fossil fuels and purchasing a house on Martha’s Vineyard, close to the ocean which will SOON! doom the island.
Repealing the finding would undercut the agency’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, according to Ben Cahill, the director for Energy Markets and Policy at the Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis at the University of Texas at Austin.
CO2 and methane are mostly naturally occurring GHGs, with a smaller output from mankind. Can they also regulate water vapor, the number 1 GHG? And why is it that the majority of the EPAs policies from this revolve around restricting American citizens?
How fortunate we are that President Trump has four years to undo the nonsense of the Biden years. How many so-called “tipping points” will we pass between now and January 20, 2029, when a [shudder!] Democratic president, if the voters are dumb enough to elect one, could try to impose stupid [insert vulgar term for feces here] to fight
global warmingclimate change.Whatever changes in the climate occur, we will adapt to them as they happen.
Teach is showing his ignorance.
“CO2 and methane are mostly naturally occurring GHGs, with a smaller output from mankind. Can they also regulate water vapor, the number 1 GHG?”
Not exactly. And of course Teach is making cynical distractions. The fact is that the Earth is steadily warming and increased GHGs are by far the most likely cause.
The increase in atmospheric CO2 from 280 ppm to 420 ppm is not ‘natural’ but is without question results from the burning of fossil fuels. There is no scientific reason to expect the levels to drop.
Methane is a shorter-lived but more potent GHG that has more than doubled from pre-industrial times, from approx 700 ppb to 1900 ppb.
Water vapor is also an important GHG and the atmospheric concentration varies greatly from time to time and place to place. Water vapor is largely self-regulating (precipitation!). Warm air can hold more water vapor than cold air (relative humidity!). It’s hardly a stretch to understand how warming contibutes to higher water vapor content which contributes to warming.
The it is not a scientifc question of IF the Earth is warming from increased GHG; it is a political question of what, if anything we can, and/or will do about it.
President Musk, after making BILLIONS pushing GHG-caused global warming to sell cars, is now leading the US government in killing efforts addressing it!! He’s more flexible than Simone Biles!!
Relax! You’ve won!! You had won even before President Musk took over. No actions were being taken to stop warming. As we’ve said many times, and Mr Dana agrees, humans will have to adjust to effects of GHG global warming.
Musk-associate Trump has shown the way by his decade-old efforts to construct sea walls to protect his golf resort in Ireland. The city of Miami FL is using taxpayer funds for raising roadbeds, building seawalls, installing water pumps and remodeling canals to remediate seawater damage. We have the technology to adjust. And we can always depend on the taxpayers.
The adjustments will occur organically. People will move from threatened areas and build inland. Electrical grids will have to upgraded to support A/C demand. Medical care systems will be upgraded. The Cassandras will be silenced. We’ll adjust because we must. Humanity will survive.
Way too long.
TL;DNR
Everything of Jeff’s is DNR.
DNR; too stupid.
The perfesser doesn’t like what he reads.
You can learn by reading.
I even agreed with you morons!
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Teach is suggesting that scientific findings (and resulting opinions) be reversed based on the behaviors of the then-President?? That President Obama used fossil fuels AND bought a home on Martha’s Vineyard is PROOF of the scam!!
Has the Musk/Vance/Trump ascendancy caused every conservative to abandon every smidge of reason?
…abandon every smidge of reason?
What “smidge” would that be, Rimjob?
You’re right, Pissant.
Most MAGAts have not even a smidge of reason left. Trump has erased reason with his cult.
hell, Elwood even Joyless get it.
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