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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is about to implement strenuous new regulations regarding carbon dioxide emissions without authorizing legislation from congress.
Friday, the EPA sent its final proposal on CO2 emissions to the White House for review. The exact contents of this proposal is as of now unknown. If it follows earlier EPA assessments, which it most likely will, then the EPA will assert its power to regulate and cut CO2 emissions regardless of whether Cap and Trade becomes law or not.
The EPA justifies this by claiming that CO2 is a pollutant. This is down right nuts considering that there must be CO2 in the atmosphere for life to exist on the planet. Carbon dioxide is plant food and plants really like it. If plants aren’t fed, neither are we, since everything we eat is either a plant or something that ate plants or something that ate something that ate plants. Ultimately, the entire food chain rests on vegetable matter.
Increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from human activity is blamed for global warming. This is equally nuts since human activity accounts for only about five percent of the annual CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. The other 95 % comes from natural sources including volcanoes, chemical erosion of rocks, and animal exhalation. It is not likely that the five percent of CO2 emissions attributable to human activity is adding appreciably to any greenhouse effect.
But most intriguing of all is the apparent assumption that the earth’s climate is a constant and should be expected to remain stable for centuries. This is flat out wrong. The earth’s climate has been changing since the has been a climate that can change
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