February 18, 2009

The post in which flying monkeys come screaming out of my butt...

This beggars belief -- from the New York Times:
E.P.A. Expected to Regulate Carbon Dioxide
The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to act for the first time to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that scientists blame for the warming of the planet, according to top Obama administration officials.

The decision, which most likely would play out in stages over a period of months, would have a profound impact on transportation, manufacturing costs and how utilities generate power. It could accelerate the progress of energy and climate change legislation in Congress and form a basis for the United States� negotiating position at United Nations climate talks set for December in Copenhagen.

The environmental agency is under order from the Supreme Court to make a determination whether carbon dioxide is a pollutant that endangers public health and welfare, an order that the Bush administration essentially ignored despite near-unanimous belief among agency experts that research points inexorably to such a finding.
We should not 'negotiate' at the United Nations. We are a sovereign nation and beholden to nobody. The E.P.A. is the perfect example of Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy that I referred to yesterday:
In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.
The effect that CO2 has on the overall temperature is minimal. A couple hundred parts per million either way is not going to make any major change compared to other gases like water vapor. The sun is the key driver of climate -- something that Kyoto failed to address. The whole CO2 cap and trade bullshit is political and not based on anything that could be considered to be sound science. It's a way to impose a tax on businesses that are successful. I am all about being green and saving resources but when the government does such a passive-aggressive stunt like this, I cannot help but see that all they are for is their own Benjamin's -- this is not about "Saving the Earth", the Earth is just fine. It's about entrenched power and the Cultural Marxism that is creeping out of academia and into our current lives. Looking forward to 2010 and 2012. On firearms blogs, people have been observing that guns and ammo are becoming very hard to find. A lot of people are stockpiling food. It's going to be an interesting couple of years... Posted by DaveH at February 18, 2009 11:11 PM
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