Posted on 04/16/2023 4:42:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The climate change fairytale has lasted long enough -- forty or fifty years -- with no sound empirical backing.
Francis Menton at the Manhattan Contrarian, who often has well-considered things to say, posted an intriguing and important blog this week.
In 2009 the EPA found that CO2 and other “greenhouse gases” endanger human health and welfare because they potentially warm the atmosphere. Many scientists have taken issue with this finding, which has provided the justification for reducing conventional energy sources, raised the cost of energy to consumers, and unrolled massive federal and state spending for manifestly unreliable alternative sources. The Biden administration has pressed this autocracy-enabling finding to its bosom, using it to justify regulating everything, -- including gas stoves, electric vehicles, air conditioners, home appliances -- indeed, anything that makes a good life affordable and efficient.
How well-substantiated was this EPA decision which has so upended our lives and wasted trillions of taxpayer and consumer resources? Not very.
The stated basis for the EF [Endangerment Finding] is a combination of a temperature series where almost half of the data has been manufactured and infilled by computer algorithm, together with model predictions of atmospheric temperature patterns that have never been found in the empirical data as it has been collected.
CHECC v. EPA, presently in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, presents an opportunity to challenge that weakly supported finding.
The question is whether the appellant CHECC has a sufficient stake in the matter to meet the initial hurdle of what is called “standing.” CHECC (Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council) is composed of utility payers and the Court is struggling, per Menton, to determine whether they have a sufficient stake to mount a court challenge just because electricity consumers are likely to pay the burden...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4145748/posts
Clarice ping.
The CO2 hoax is intended to burden industry and achieves that objective very well. Industry is the culprit behind economic prosperity which dulls the incentive for cultural revolution, i.e., communist insurgency.
Happens with great frequency.
There is a definite hunt on for standing.
A good way to illustrate this is to examine it in the context of these stupid electric vehicle (EV) mandates.
If the U.S. government were to outlaw new internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles tomorrow, the general public would have no legal standing to oppose it in a court of law. You don’t have a God-given right to buy an ICE vehicle … and even if you could make the case that you have a personal stake in the regulation, you can’t legally force an auto manufacturer to produce an ICE vehicle and sell it to you.
The only party that has a solid legal ground to oppose this EV mandate is the manufacturer of ICE vehicles. And yet the auto manufacturers never challenge these regulations. That’s because they benefit immensely from them. They get to sell you an inferior EV for $60,000 because they’re no longer legally allowed to sell you the $40,000 ICE.
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