By Alan Caruba
As this is being written, it is the Wednesday prior to the announcement of the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the fate of Obamacare. If SCOTUS upholds it, it will condemn Americans to having bureaucrats deny medical care to some because of their age and others to die while waiting for it.
By any standard it is a horrendously bad law and one that initiated a huge political movement, the Tea Party, to oppose it. Mitt Romney is campaigning on the promise to repeal it. It was a law passed in the dark of night and it embodies all the worst aspects of Socialism.
There has been another judicial opinion, however, that promises to destroy many aspects of the nation’s economy, from the coal industry to the coal-fired plants that provide about 42% of the nation’s electrical power. It used to be 50%. An successful economy requires and thrives on energy. We are decreasing ours. China is building a new coal-fired plant every month.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia threw out a pro-industry petition that challenged the Environmental Protection Agency’s assertion that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a “pollutant” that endangers public health and is a factor in global warming.
It was an 81-page decision, based in part on a 2007 SCOTUS decision that ruled 5-4 that the 1970 Clean Air Act empowered the EPA to regulate C02, even though that was never the original intent of the Act.
It is a ruling that will permit the EPA to continue to wreak havoc on business and industry, large and small, based entirely on the greatest science hoax in history.
As one observer said, “with a sweep of the pen the elite of the American legal system affirms that the Earth’s atmosphere simulates the glass barrier of a greenhouse.” Only the Earth’s atmosphere is composed entirely of gases.
CO2 represents an infinitesimal 0.038% of the atmosphere.
The other atmospheric gases are nitrogen at 78.084%, oxygen at 20.94%, argon at 0.934%, carbon dioxide, and trace elements at 0.002%.
To suggest, as the EPA does, that CO2 poses a public health hazard is to ignore the fact that humans exhale about six pounds of it every day and that it is vital to all vegetation on Earth in the same fashion as oxygen is to all animal life. Does this sound like a hazard to you? Are humans dying because of 0.038% of CO2?
The decision opens the floodgates of EPA regulation to require all manner of technology to abate emissions from thousands of sources of CO2 whether they are a huge factory or a local bakery. Unless Congress asserts its right to properly interpret the Clean Air Act, the decision will further undermine job growth and economy recovery.
The decision is likely to become part of the political campaign leading to the elections. Mitt Romney has declared his opposition to it.
It is worth considering that, among the members of the Supreme Court, Justice Scalia just turned 78, Justice Kennedy will turn 76 later this year, Justice Breyer will be 76 in August, and Justice Ginsburg just turned 81. The next President is likely to choose at least one and possibly more justices to the court.
Suffice to say that the Court of Appeals arrived at their decision by relying on all the lies that buttressed the global warming hoax and made no effort to consider the vast body of scientific literature that demonstrates that CO2 plays no role in climate change and is, as noted, vital to all life on Earth. It was a very stupid decision as was the 2007 SCOTUS decision.
It was, however, a decision that will cause an untold amount of harm to the nation’s economy. Congress, already having failed to act in the years since 2007 to assert its role with regard to the Clean Air Act, must do so soon or the further destruction of the nation will follow as night the day.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
Comment
Comment by Ruth Hammons on July 1, 2012 at 11:57pm How is it so many are so stupid and still have made it to high places and why in all that is real do we keep putting them in those jobs???? They must be acceptable or they donot get there and We, the People, MUST pay more atttention to politics and KNOW WHAT THE HECK IS HAPPENING BFORE---I SAID BEFORE---THEY TAKE US TO THE BRINK AGAIN!!!
Comment by Thomas on June 28, 2012 at 6:36am If its effects on our lives were not so personal, the degenerate clown show that we call The United States Federal Government would be worth at least a laugh a minute. That would be at least some return on the massive amounts of foreign aid that we send to that strange little foreign country that we call The District of Columbia.
Think eviction, not secession. All fifty of the states of the real and actual United States of America share a common malady and it is not each other.
Regardless of all the very legitimate fear and trepidation about possible results, A SECOND CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION HAS BECOME A NECESSITY!
Comment by David D. Riker American on June 28, 2012 at 3:38am It seems to me that most EPA administraters must be accomplished glue sniffers or crack heads. How else to explain the stupidity of the EPA.
Comment by Bruce Baker on June 27, 2012 at 8:57pm I am SICK AND TIRED of the CO2 B.S.!!!! PLANTS LOVE CO2... they THRIVE on CO2 .... ENOUGH ALREADY.....
Comment by thornley traylor on June 27, 2012 at 8:57pm it is plainly obvious. federalist have thier own intrest in question. there are NO PUBLIC SERVANT'S. SAVE POSIBLY 1 st RESPONDERS and some in the armed forces. and on this path they push us down. there will only be anarchy . just what they want. question is , what state will push secession first ? i vote TEXAS !
@Bob Candy -- You know, that is as very good idea! After all, oxygen is a prerequisite to combustion. Just think -- eliminate oxygen and voila! no more fires!
EPA get the hell out of my country and out of my hair!!!!!
Comment by Bob Candy on June 27, 2012 at 7:57pm They should ban oxygen. That would solve all of our problems.
Comment by Roc29 on June 27, 2012 at 7:36pm
Man-made CO2 based global warming (oops) climate change is the greatest bamboozle since the world is flat. The reason that the bamboozle still gets traction is because some of the (self-proclaimed) smartest people bought into the bamboozle. Being so smart, they couldn’t possibly be bamboozled so they can’t back away from their stand. The late astronomer Carl Sagan explained it very succinctly:
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Comment by Doug Nicholson on June 27, 2012 at 5:29pm Over 31,000 scientists, several thousand with doctorates, have signed a petition denying that, 1. climate change is man made and, 2. CO2 is harmful to the environment.
Comment by Jeff Waller on June 27, 2012 at 5:18pm Carbon dioxide (CO2) is what our beloved plants require to thrive.
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a completely different thing.
I should think environmentalists would be proud to create as many new sources of CO2 as possible!
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