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The very term “carbon pollution” is deliberately disingenuous. The
rules do not target carbon (aka soot). They target carbon dioxide. This
is the gas that all humans and animals exhale. It makes life on Earth
possible. It makes crops and other plants grow faster and better. As
thousands of scientists emphasize, at just 0.04% of our atmosphere, CO2
plays only a minor role in climate change – especially compared to water
vapor and the incredibly powerful solar, cosmic, oceanic and other
natural forces that have caused warm periods, ice ages and little ice
ages, and controlled climate and weather for countless millennia.
The terrible disasters that the President and other climate alarmists
attribute to fossil fuels, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases
are creatures of computer models that have gotten virtually no
predictions correct. That should hardly be surprising. The models are
based on faulty assumptions of every size and description, and are fed a
steady diet of junk science and distorted data. We shouldn’t trust them
any more than we would trust con artists who claim their computers can
predict stock markets or Super Bowl and World Series winners – even one
year in advance, much less 50 or 100 years.
The models should absolutely not be trusted as the basis for regulations that will cripple our economy.
Contrary to model predictions and White House assertions, average
global temperatures have not risen in almost 18 years. It’s now been
over eight years since a category 3-5 hurricane hit the United States –
the longest such period in over a century. Tornadoes are at a
multi-decade low. Droughts are no more intense or frequent than since
1900. There were fewer than half as many forest fires last year as
during the 1960s and 1970s. Sea levels rose just eight inches over the
last 130 years and are currently rising at barely seven inches per century. There’s still ice on Lake Superior – in June! Runaway global warming, indeed.
This is not dangerous. It’s not because of humans. It does not justify what the White House is doing."
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