While I concentrate on finding truth affecting telecommunications and information policy, I cannot self-censor on the latest insult from a Wall Street Journal columnist. Paul H. Tice wants U.S. citizens and their elected representatives to deem carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide “naturally occurring” “trace greenhouse gases, not lawfully subject to any sort of regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency. See Trump Can Topple the Climate-Change House of Cards; https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-can-topple-the-climate-house-of-cards-clean-energy-paris-b1b0e4f8.
Apparently, any process that increases
the volume of these gases does not matter.
If any greenhouse gas naturally occurs in the atmosphere, then
apparently human generated increase in volume does not matter, no matter what harm
it causes.
Wow!
With this logic, we can rationalize further emasculation of environmental
protection by looking for any naturally occurring, potentially toxic material.
As oil and other petroleum compounds naturally exist underground, then might
any manmade petroleum product qualify for a regulatory exemption? How about
uranium, sulfur, hydrogen, any of the other elements and “naturally occurring”
compounds?
Who needs science when we can consider
any naturally occurring material a gift from the Almighty and thereby exempt
from regulation, no matter what we mortals do with it.
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