This appeared here and I wish to thank Alan for allowing me to publish his work. RK
The Environmental Protection Agency has been in a full
assault on the U.S. economy since the 1980s when the global warming hoax was
initiated. It has been assisted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration and NASA.
To put it in other terms, our own government has engaged
in lying to Americans and the result has been the expenditure of billions of
taxpayer dollars on something that was not happening and is not happening.
On January 22, the House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee released the deposition transcript of former senior EPA official John
Beale. After defrauding the agency of nearly $900,000 and spending weeks and
months away from his office by claiming he was on assignment for the CIA, the
transcript contained a bombshell.
Discussing his job, at the time as a close associate of
Gina McCarthy, the new EPA administrator, Beale revealed that he was there to
come up with “specific proposals that could have been proposed either
legislatively or things which could have been done administratively to kind of
modify the capitalist system…”
Dan Kish, senior vice president of the Institute for Energy Research,
responded to the revelation saying “In his testimony under oath, Beale, perhaps
unwittingly, has laid bare the administration’s end goal. The President’s
policies are not about carbon, they are not about coal, and they are not even
about energy and the environment. They are about fundamentally altering the DNA
of the capitalist system. These policies are not about energy, but power.”
When the new EPA administrator, Gina McCarthy, in
testimony before a congressional committee in mid-January was asked by Sen.
Jeff Sessions (AL-R) to confirm a statement made by President Obama last year
that global temperatures were increasing faster in the last five or ten years
than climate scientists had predicted.
She said, “I can’t answer that question.”
“You’re asking us to impose billions of dollars of cost
on this economy and you won’t answer the simple question of whether
(temperature around the world is increasing faster than predicted) is accurate
or not?” Sessions responded.
“I just look at what the climate scientists tell me,”
said McCarthy.
The Earth is in a cooling cycle that has lasted seventeen
years at this point, but the EPA administrator was not inclined to accept this
fact, nor question the climate scientists who provided the data based on
computer models that have been consistently wrong now for decades.
We owe the Heartland
Institute, a free market think tank a debt of gratitude for the
eight international conferences it has held to debunk global warming. Joseph
Bast, its president and CEO, has said, “The toll our EPA is taking on the
country is staggering, putting hundreds of thousands of Americans out of work
at a time when millions of people are unemployed and our reliance on foreign
sources of energy threatens to compromise our nation’s security.” Heartland’s
science director points out that “EPA’s budget could safely be cut by 80
percent or more without endangering the environment or human health, Most of
what EPA does today could be done better by state government agencies…” I serve
as an advisor to Heartland.
This is the same EPA that proposed restrictions for new
wood stoves in early January. The reason given was to reduce the maximum amount
of fine particulate emissions (soot) allowed for new stoves sold in 2015 and
2019. The soot is made up of solid particles and liquid droplets that measure
2.5 micrometers or less. The EPA
claims, as it does for virtually all its regulations, that it is linked to
heart attacks, decreased lung function, and premature death in people with
heart and lung disease. This is worse than junk science. It represents no
science whatever, being an invention of EPA employees who specialize in such
nonsense. The Earth produces soot every day and circulates it globally.
The only way Americans will be protected against the
EPA’s attack on our economy will be a Congress controlled by the Republican
Party and a Republican President that will support the oversight that is needed
and the reversal of its vast output of regulations. It will have to do this as
well for NOAA, NASA, and
other governmental departments and agencies that, until recently,
spewed forth all manner of “data” supporting the global warming hoax.
At the heart of the global warming hoax, now called
climate change, is the assertion that carbon dioxide (CO2) and other
“greenhouse gases” have been dangerously warming the Earth by trapping heat,
but you don’t have to be a scientist to know that the current cold spell,
comparable to the 1500-1850 mini-ice age, is the result of lower solar
emissions by a sun. CO2 is a minor (0.038) element of the Earth’s atmosphere,
but the second most vital gas for all life on Earth because it is the “food”
that maintains all vegetation.
Little wonder, during the government shutdown, more than
93% of EPA employees were furloughed when designated as “non-essential.” That
was more than nine out of every ten employees!
In September 2013, the Republican members of the Senate
Environmental and Public Works Committee issued a report that EPA officials
had, from the beginning of President Obama’s tenure had “pursued a path of
obfuscation, operating in the shadows, and out of the sunlight.” It detailed
violations of the Freedom of Information Act and other federal laws and
regulations intended to encourage transparency and accountability in the
government.
In mid-January, the Energy and
Environmental Legal Institute revealed that emails obtained through
the Freedom of Information Act revealed that the EPA used official events to
help environmental groups gather signatures for petitions on agency rulemaking.
“The level of coordination in these documents is shocking” said an EELI
spokesman. The EPA has a long history of this, including a policy of “sue and
settle” working with environmental groups to bring a suit to advance
regulations and settling the suit to enable it to implement those regulations.
In an April 2013 article in Investor’s Business Daily,
John Merline reported that “Overall air pollution levels dropped 62% from 1990
to 2012, while GDP grew 69% and population climbed 26%.” The pollution the EPA
keeps claiming is rising includes carbon monoxide, soot, sulfur dioxide, ozone,
and others, all well below the EPA’s safety threshold. Water quality, too, has
also improved over several decades.
In May 2013, Paul Driessen, a senior policy advisor for
the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)
noted that the EPA, since Obama’s inauguration in 2009, had generated 1,920 new
regulations. “The EPA’s actions are forcing us to expend vast financial, human
and technological resources to achieve minimal or even zero health benefits.”
This is the same EPA leading the effort to shut down
coal-fired plants that produce electricity. It is the same EPA seeking to stop
the Pebble Mine, described as “a natural resource project in Alaska that could
yield more copper than has ever been found in one place anywhere in the world.”
The EPA is the instrument of those who want to undermine
capitalism in any way it can. Only that can explain why entire books have been
written about its impact on the economy of the nation and the deceptive way it
has imposed regulations responsible for it.
President Obama called for “hope and change” when he
first ran for office. We can only hope that a new Congress and President will
bring about the change we need to shut down the EPA and return control over the
nation’s environment to its 50 sovereign states.
© Alan Caruba, 2014
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