THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XIII, Issue # 242, October 2, 2011
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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THE EPA GETS CAUGHT IN A BIG FAT LIE
By Alan Caruba
FORTY YEARS OF ENVIRONMENTALIST PROPAGANDA DISSEMINATED BY THE EPA: THE UTTERLY DECEITFUL
MANNER IN WHICH THE EPA ARRIVES AT ITS JUSTIFICATION FOR A VAST MATRIX OF REGULATIONS THAT HAS BEEN
STIFLING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY FOR YEARS -- EPA'S FAILURE TO MEET ITS OWN GUIDELINES FOR PEER REVIEW TO
ENSURE THE INTEGRITY OF THE "SCIENCE" STATED -- THE NEED TO SHUT DOWN THE EPA & REPLACE IT WITH A TRULY
SCIENCE-BASED AGENCY, AN AGENCY SUBJECT TO STRICT CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT & LIMITATIONS
FULL STORY:
The notion that the Environmental Protection Agency uses “science” to justify their regulations is false, just like most of
the claims they issue on various aspects of the nation’s environment. Their favorite scam is to estimate the number of
deaths they will prevent with some new draconian regulation.
The American equivalent of the German Nazi Gestapo, the EPA is a ruthless enforcement agency with a very Green
agenda that is opposed to the use of many beneficial chemicals, every form of energy, and the right of people to be left
alone.
At the top of its list of priorities is the destruction of the nation’s economy, with special attention to all forms of energy
production. Manufacturing anything comes next, followed by afflicting the nation’s vast agricultural sector. The EPA
insists that dust is a pollutant. You can’t farm without generating dust.
To understand the threat the EPA poses, it is necessary to understand that proposed Clean Air regulations are based on
the claim that “global warming” is real, is happening, and is caused primarily by carbon dioxide (CO2). The claim is utterly
without any scientific merit.
There is NO global warming. At least not the kind Al Gore lies about.
The North and South Poles are not melting; they gain and lose ice in a perfectly natural cycle that has been going on for
billions of years. The polar bears are not disappearing. Drilling for oil in ANWR will have zero effect on the caribou. Et
cetera!
With our vast reserves of coal and natural gas, the U.S.A. does not lack for the ability to generate electricity or to refine
oil for transportation.
If you want to stay warm this Winter, you better hope that utilities keep producing the electricity for your home or
apartment’s heating system. Fifty percent of that electricity is produced by cheap, abundant coal and the EPA is hell
bent to shut down as many coal mines as possible, leading in turn to the shutdown of utilities that burn coal. Natural gas
accounts for just over twenty-four percent of electricity generation and it need hardly be said that the EPA is wary of
fracking, the technology to access it.
BLOWING THE WHISTLE ON THE EPA
The big news — the kind even the mainstream media was unable to ignore — was that the EPA’s own Inspector General
has released a report accusing the Agency of cutting corners regarding the “science” cited to justify its effort to declare
CO2 a “pollutant.”
Simply stated, without CO2 all life on Earth dies.
It is a gas that plants use for their growth. From a blade of grass to a giant redwood, all depend on CO2, as do all the
crops grown coast to coast. Enormous quantities of corn and wheat are grown that contribute to the U.S. economy,
feeding both livestock and humans in wondrous ways. Take away vegetation and the animals die. Take away the animals
that grace our dinner plates and we die.
Absurdly, the EPA says CO2 is a “pollutant”, a dangerous hazard to our health.
No, the most dangerous hazard to our health is the EPA.
The EPA insists on ignoring all the other natural sources of CO2, as well as the fact that it constitutes less than one
percent, 0.038 percent of the atmosphere. The oceans of the world gather it, store it, and release it. The EPA, though, says
that when man is involved, it is pure evil.
Mind you, every human exhales about six pounds of CO2 every day. The fact is that the air Americans inhale daily is clean,
due to the Agency’s early efforts to mitigate some abuses. Those were the days before the EPA abandoned a rational,
fact-based approach to its stated objectives. One of its legacies is the idiotic required inclusion of ethanol in every gallon
of gasoline. Made from corn, it actually produces more CO2 to produce and use.
The EPA effort to regulate CO2 came along with the invention of the global warming hoax that claimed CO2 was “trapping”
the Earth’s heat. That is why CO2 and others are deceptively called “greenhouse” gases (GHGs). Manufacturing
everything from a donut to megawatts of electricity emits GHGs.
Finally, even the EPA’s Inspector General blew the whistle on the utterly deceitful way the EPA arrives at its justification
for a vast matrix of regulations that has been stifling the economy for years. The IG has charged that the EPA did not meet
its own guidelines for peer review to ensure the integrity of the science stated.
Anyone who has been following the rise and fall of the global warming hoax knows that “peer review” has become a highly
corrupted practice. Real peer review is critical to the integrity of any scientific study. When major science journals
abandoned the peer review process to publish gibberish about global warming, they put all other new scientific studies at
risk.
As Marlo Lewis, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, noted, the EPA’s regulation of CO2 emissions
would require “230,000 full-time employees to produce 1.4 billion work hours to address the actual increase in permitting
functions” that would result if the EPA is allowed to get away with this scandalous hoax. It would cost an estimated $21
billion per year. By contrast, the EPA’s budget request for fiscal year 2012 is $8.973 billion.
The EPA claims that the Clean Air Act gives it the power to regulate CO2, but it does not. It was never intended to, but the
U.S. Supreme Court in one of its more idiotic rulings opened the door for the EPA claim. In his dissent from Massachusetts
v. EPA (2007), Justice Antonin Scalia quipped that, as defined by the Court, “everything airborne, from Frisbees to flatulence,
qualifies as an ‘air pollutant’”
Sen. John Barrasso (Republican - Wyoming) pointed out that “The EPA’s determination has led to a mountain of Clean Air Act
regulations that could cost over a million jobs.” It is noteworthy that Sen. Barrasso said, “EPA administrator Lisa Jackson
has regularly assured Congress and the American public that its finding is based on sound scientific practices.” It isn’t.
Jackson “should testify immediately,” said Sen. Barrasso, “the American people deserve the truth.”
The EPA has been short on the truth about all of its claims for four decades and needs to be shut down in order to let a
truly science-based agency replace it with strict congressional oversight and limitations.
The time is long overdue to pull the plug on the Environmental Protection Agency.
© Alan Caruba, 2011
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Alan Caruba's commentaries are posted daily at Warning Signs, his popular blog -- and thereafter on dozens of other
websites and blogs. His monthly report on new books is posted at Bookviews.
A business and science writer, Caruba is the Founder of The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information
about "scare campaigns" designed to influence public opinion and policy.
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