Posted on 08/24/2023 4:18:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
That’s the argument two distinguished climate scientists are making, and they’ve got the facts to back them up.
Two distinguished climate scientists have filed with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a 45-page comment on the proposed regulation the EPA announced on May 11, 2023, setting emission standards that would require nearly all of coal- and gas-powered plants in the U.S.to capture almost all—90 percent—of their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 2038 or shut down.
In their comment, William Happer, professor of physics, emeritus, Princeton University, and Richard Lindzen, professor of Earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences, emeritus, make both a legal and a scientific case that the EPA’s proposed new rule is based on ideologically driven polices with no basis in legitimate climate science. In a document that appears to be the prelude to filing a lawsuit to block the EPA from implementing the proposed regulation, Happer and Lindzen lay out a science-based case arguing that the new EPA rules designed to limit the use of hydrocarbon fuels in the nation’s power plants could end up reducing the world’s food supply so dramatically that billions of people worldwide would be at risk of death by starvation.
SNIP
- Fossil fuels are indispensable in creating nitrogen fertilizer and pesticides that feed nearly half the world; their combustion releases carbon dioxide and thus increases plant growth via increased CO2 fertilization effect, creating more food worldwide; and they provide the most reliable, efficient and low-cost energy for many uses, including the production of 61% of the nation’s electricity.
- The number of people worldwide who are moderately or severely food insecure is 2.3 billion, including over 900 million who face severe food insecurity. Each ton of carbon dioxide emissions eliminated reduces the amount of food available worldwide.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The EPA will find something else to blame. “Further studies show 120% of emissions need to captured”.
It would make more sense to abolish the federal EPA
Not at all. It's based on the fact that lefty idiots believe that. My comment was that some smart engineer should invent a way to pull the rug out from under them, and then they won't have a leg left to stand on.
The EPA needs to be dissolved. Now. And all their ‘regulations’, that the federal gov doesn’t have the constitutional authority to impose, need to dissolve with them. (And no, the ‘commerce clause’ wasn’t written to allow this or anything else the federal gov might dream up. Regardless what the commie installed black-robes said in the past.)
The Elites food supply will be safe just like the Elites in the USSR
The US will be the only country following these rules.
Genocide by guile this time, instead of brute force.
Certainly...
That is one of its founding principles...
Racheal's success in starving hundred of millions to death with the elimination of DDT use has made them greedy...
#9 Trees and plants use co2 and create oxygen which humans and animals breathe in and then exhale co2. Cycle repeats.
So plant more trees and plants.
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