The EPA
was established
was established
December 2, 1970,
under Republican
President Nixon,
"to work for a cleaner,
healthier environment
for the American people”.
(EPA quote, from 2018).
The EPA website
says its mission is :
“to protect human health
and the environment.”
The EPA has
a current budget
of $8 billion, and
12,000 full-time staff.
Its regulations
account for
more than half
of the total cost
of complying with
all federal regulations.
Crews, W. 2018.
Ten Thousand Commandments:
A Policymaker’s Snapshot
of the Federal Regulatory State.
Washington, DC:
Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Huge progress has been made
in reducing the emissions
of possibly harmful chemicals
produced by burning fossil fuels.
But CO2 is NOT
a harmful chemical.
US air quality improvements
began in the 1940s and 1950s.
Government regulations
played a vital role later.
The EPA’s mission
has evolved over time.
Unfortunately,
the EPA uses junk science
to expand their powers,
and guarantee permanent
job security.
For example:
For mild global warming
measured since 1880,
natural variability
could explain
all of the warming,
and common sense
tells us the warming,
mainly in winter nights,
has harmed no one.
Yet the EPA has declared
CO2 to be a pollutant ?
The Clean Air Act
charged the EPA
with setting
air pollution
health standards.
But no matter
how clean the air,
the EPA always
continues to find
unacceptable risks,
due to their bias,
to ensure permanent
job security.
The EPA budget
depends on
public perception
that there is
a serious problem
to solve.
Jay Lehr, Ph.D., a scientist
involved in the founding
of the EPA, wrote in 2014:
“Beginning around 1981,
liberal activist groups
recognized the EPA
could be used to advance
their political agenda
by regulating virtually
all human activities
regardless of their impact
on the environment. "
"Politicians recognized
they could win votes
by posing as protectors of
the public health and wildlife."
Lehr, J. 2014.
Replacing the
Environmental Protection Agency.
Policy Brief. Chicago, IL:
The Heartland Institute.
Protecting public health
became a pretense
for stopping
any human activity,
that had any impact
on the environment.
President Obama
used his EPA
to advance
his political agenda,
penalizing the
fossil fuel industry,
while rewarding the
alternative energy industry.
In January 2008, Obama told
the editorial board of
The San Francisco Chronicle,
“If somebody wants to build
a coal-fired power plant, they can.
It’s just that it will bankrupt them,”
... and in 2012 Obama said:
“Under my plan
... electricity rates would
necessarily skyrocket”.
For climate change,
the main hypothesis is that
dangerous climate change
is happening, or will happen,
from man made
greenhouse gas emissions.
A "null hypothesis" is that
changes in global climate
are only the result of
natural variability.
Another
null hypothesis:
Whatever it is
that causes
global warming,
will not lead to a
climate catastrophe.
Climate scientists
have failed to disprove
either null hypothesis.
That means the
original hypothesis,
that greenhouse
gas emissions
from burning
fossil fuels
are dangerous,
has NOT been proven
to be correct.
The scientific method
is NOT used by the EPA.
The EPA’s broad mission
leads to a huge bias:
They merely assume
that natural causes
of climate change,
either do not exist,
or do not matter.
They prefer junk science,
jumping to unproven
assumptions about CO2,
that stifle the US economy !
Such as using
climate change
computer models
-- models so far
from reality
that they predict
three times the warming
that actually happens !
Climate models
that make
wrong predictions,
are not real science.
They are the junk science,
favored by the EPA:
Failed computer models,
that make very wrong
predictions, and have been
doing so for three decades,
do NOT model any
climate change process
on our planet --
they only "model"
scientific confusion
about the causes
of climate change
on our planet !
Economists and
computer modelers
create wild guess
"assessment models"
to declare their
personal opinions
on the
“social cost of carbon”.
There ARE
visible problems
with air quality
in China and India,
where biofuels
and fossil fuels
are too often burned
without emission controls.
But CO2 emissions themselves,
harm no one in any nation !
From everyday experience,
and scientific data,
human health and longevity
have been improving over time.
The circumstantial
evidence
is overwhelming,
that emissions
from burning
fossil fuels,
are not a threat
to human health,
unless they cause
visible pollution,
as in Chinese
and Indian cities.
But of course
the chemical CO2,
itself, is NEVER
pollution,
no matter what
the EPA claims,
based on
junk science !