Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency declared that carbon dioxide is harmful to human health.
From the New York Times:
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday issued a final ruling that greenhouse gases posed a danger to human health and the environment, paving the way for regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles, power plants, factories, refineries and other major sources.
The announcement was timed to coincide with the opening of the United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen, strengthening President Obama’s hand as more than 190 nations struggle to reach a global accord.
What about the earth's six billion people? We all exhale carbon dioxide. Are we damaging the planet by breathing?
Would it help if we all pledged to hold our breath a few times throughout the day?
...The Obama administration had signaled its intent to issue an endangerment finding for carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases (methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride) since taking office in January.
...The administration has used the finding as a prod to Congress, saying that if lawmakers do not act to control greenhouse gas pollution it will use its rule-making power to do so. At the same time, the president and his top environmental aides have said that they prefer such a major step be taken through the legislative process.
I don't hear the Leftists that deemed President Bush to be a power-grabbing dictator complaining about the Obama administration's relentless power grab and intrusion into our lives.
Charles Krauthammer comments on the EPA's pronouncement and the consequences.
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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Look, it's blackmail, a way of saying to Congress, 'Either you do cap and trade or we're going to do cap, no trade. We're going to regulate every aspect of American life.'
This is, if the EPA now has in its power, and perhaps it will enact it over time, to intrude into every aspect of American life. I mean, essentially what it can do is to regulate emissions from any institution, any enterprise, any apartment block that emits more than 250 tons of CO2 in a year, which is a very low level. It says it's going to raise that much higher, but it doesn't have the authority to actually raise it. So he can regulate every aspect of American life.
It really is what Václav Klaus, the president of the Czech Republic, said: Environmentalism is a new socialism. It's a way for the feds, for the best and the brightest in the federal government, to regulate all aspects of life. It used to be in the name of socialism, which was social equality. Now it's in the name of the planet. It's a smart strategy on the part of the Left, but it is a hell of a way to do it. If you want to do it, at least you do it by the consensus of Congress. If you do it by regulation, there's going to be a revolution on the administration's hands.
Every day it seems to be something else, some new attack on our liberty, some way of getting around the Constitution.
Americans don't like what Obama is doing. Obama's job approval hit a new low, 47 percent, according to Gallup Poll's daily tracking survey.
I don't think a president should lead by polls, but at some point the president has to listen to the people he serves.
Obama isn't listening. He's too busy forcing his will on an unwilling nation.
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