More Reasons To Vacate The Endangerment Finding

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It's now more than 10 months ago -- April 2017 -- that my client the Concerned Household Electricity Consumers Council filed a Petition with the EPA calling upon it to reopen and reconsider the so-called Endangerment Finding (EF).  Follow this link for a copy of that original Petition.  The EF -- that's the regulatory power grab by which the bureaucrats at the Obama EPA decided that the colorless, odorless, non-toxic trace atmospheric gas CO2 was a "danger" to human health and safety, which danger could somehow be ameliorated it they orchestrated a scheme to double or triple your cost of electricity, gasoline and air travel.

Unfortunately, despite what you may have read about the hostility of the Trump administration and EPA to "climate"-driven regulation, nothing has yet happened on our Petition for reconsideration.

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Is The Mueller Indictment A Joke?

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Ever since the Mueller investigation of Russian "meddling" or "interference" or "collusion" or something like that began a year or so ago, you have probably been wondering, What the heck is the crime?  Granted, there are 5000 or so supposed federal crimes out there.  Nobody has any good idea what all of them are, and plenty of them are so vague that they might criminalize brushing your teeth on an angle.  But still -- "meddling" or "collusion"?  How could such things even be illegal?

So probably you are thinking, the answer must be in this indictment.  Don't get your hopes up.  As far as I can tell there is nothing real about this indictment at all.

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Resounding Echoes Of Watergate In The Susan Rice Email

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It has now been a few days since Senators Grassley and Graham released a letter they had sent to ex-National Security Advisor Susan Rice, demanding information from her about a meeting held in the White House on January 5, 2017, and attaching to their letter a redacted copy of a remarkable email describing the meeting that Rice sent to herself on the government email system on January 20, 2017 at 12:15 PM.The Grassley/Graham letter and attached Rice email can be found here.   

You will recognize January 20 at 12:15 PM as being about 20 minutes after Donald Trump was sworn in as President, and therefore the same number of minutes after Susan Rice's term as National Security Advisor had ended. She had no further government business to do, and therefore had no possible legitimate purpose related to government business to write herself this email on the government email system.

 

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How To Change Minds On The Subject Of Climate Hysteria

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Unfortunately, as I frequently point out to my colleagues, on important political issues, very few human minds can be changed by mere reason and logic, no matter how ironclad that reason and logic may be.  We may think we are creatures of reason, but that's only a veneer.  The famous quote is attributed to Jonathan Swift:  "Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which by Reasoning he never acquired."  

On the other hand, there are things that can persuade even those who are very difficult to persuade.

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How Self-Delusional Can We Be On The Cost Of Electricity From "Renewables"?

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With the New York Times, when it comes to promotion of the climate sin and redemption narrative, the big question is always the same:  Are they completely ignorant of the subject matter, or do they understand the subject matter, in which case they are intentionally trying to deceive you and their other readers?  It ought to be obvious which of the two it is, but incredibly it is not.  Could there even be a third alternative?  The only one I can think of is that what we have here is an extreme case of self-delusion, brought about by a need to believe in the official religion so overpowering that it prevents any consideration of actual facts or evidence.  

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Manhattan Contrarian In Investors Business Daily

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An op-ed written by myself and co-author Jim Wallace appeared Wednesday afternoon in IBD, titled "With Tax Reform Done, Trump Should Set Record Straight On Climate Change."  Here is a link to the piece.

The piece summarizes the Wallace, et al., research on the subject of attribution (or lack thereof) of global temperature change to human influences.  I have previously covered the Wallace, et al., research reports when they have been issued, most notably in "The 'Science' Underlying Climate Alarmism Turns Up Missing" on September 19, 2016, and "The Greatest Scientific Fraud Of All Time -- Part XV" on July 8, 2017.  It has taken some time, but finally this work is seeing a somewhat wider audience.

Key quote from the IBD op-ed:

So, what is the actual science behind the EF [Endangerment Finding -- the Obama EPA's determination that CO2 constitutes a "danger" to human health and safety]?  We confidently assert that in any Red/Blue evaluation of the science, where the Blue team supports the EF, the Blue team will lose badly.

"Warmists" claim a 97% scientific consensus regarding the hypothesized catastrophic impact of increased atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and other GHGs. But this illusion of consensus has only come about through misrepresentation of global temperatures and research results plus rigid enforcement of orthodoxy and refusal to debate for some two decades.

In accordance with the scientific method, the EF has been shown to be invalid at least three separate times over the past two years. One of us (Wallace) is the lead author of three scientific research reports that, each in a unique fashion, invalidated all of the lines of evidence on which EPA claimed to rely for its EF.

Go to the IBD link to read the remainder of the piece.