The importance of the endangerment finding
The determination to destroy everything presses on.
The Trump administration is attempting to unmake virtually all climate US regulations in one fell swoop.
At an Indiana truck dealership on Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled a proposal to rescind the 16-year-old landmark legal finding which allows the agency to limit planet-heating pollution from cars and trucks, power plants and other industrial sources.
Because they want their children and grandchildren to be doomed to worse misery faster.
…if the rollback prevails, it would leave the EPA without any authority to regulate greenhouse gas pollution amid ever-compounding evidence that a swift reduction in these emissions is needed to avert catastrophic global warming.
“The importance of the endangerment finding can’t be overstated,” said the renowned climate scientist Michael Mann. “It’s been the primary tool that we have had to actually regulate carbon emissions and meet our obligations under various global agreements to address the climate crisis.”
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It comes as part of Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” agenda, which aims to boost already booming fossil-fuel production. Along with the scrapping of the endangerment finding, the EPA said it will kill off regulations limiting pollution coming from cars and will stymie a rule that curbs the amount of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, spewing from oil and gas drilling operations.
It’s kind of like going for a thrill ride down a steep mountain when you know there’s a lake full of piranhas at the bottom. Yeah yeah yeah piranhas but the ride is such fun!
I bet GW Bush wishes he’d thought of that.
Perhaps. But people with some ideological barrow to push usually decide first what conclusion they want to draw, and then seek out some sort of factual basis to justify it: Coal industry shills are adept at this, and do not mind what laws of Nature they have to trample all over in their rush to deny any possible connection between changing atmospheric CO2 concentration and problematic climate change. That is the reverse procedure of any normal enquiry in empirical science.
If their their children and grandchildren have to suffer, well that can be rationalised away too: good for their souls and all that. And anyway, what has posterity ever done for us?
Well, ya know, I don’t think they literally want their children and grandchildren to be doomed to worse misery faster. It was one of them there ironic hyperbole things. I do that a lot. Surely you’ve noticed?
Most of the time, I do. But some of ’em still manage to get under my WW2 vintage radar, which I bought real cheap in a disposal shop.
Ah but the nostalgia value!