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Today’s proposal by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to rescind the rule limiting carbon dioxide emissions from motor vehicles validates a decade of work by the CO2 Coalition to refute irrational regulation of the gas. Targeted is the so-called Endangerment Finding, which treats CO2 as a dangerous pollutant.
For more than 30 years, carbon dioxide has been demonized as a dangerous “greenhouse” gas by a cabal of special interests who pursued political science instead of true science. Since 2015, the CO2 Coalition has rebutted this narrative by educating the public about the beneficial role of the gas in nature and by insisting on rigorous scientific inquiry in deciding such matters. Thousands of scientists and researchers – both Coalition members and others – stood with us for the truth.
We believe EPA’s action – and other reforms of rules covering power plants – could ultimately end foolish public policy that has wastefully diverted trillions of dollars toward a manufactured climate emergency and away from work that could have otherwise benefited people.
Nevertheless, well-funded, powerful people likely will seek to perpetuate their apocalyptic vision of global warming through lawsuits and political influence, so our work will continue. For one thing, we will submit comments supporting the EPA proposal using science, facts and data.
The theory that carbon dioxide threatens to catastrophically overheat the planet is fearmongering supported by computer models that have proven repeatedly to be unreliable and by exaggerations of CO2’s warming potential. The dominant influences of climate change have always been the sun and variations in Earth’s orbit and axial tilt that manifest themselves in cycles spanning thousands of years.
Over the past 80 years, the increase of atmospheric CO2 from human activity has resulted in an overall greening of most ecosystems and record production of food crops. These facts – supported by government data and reams of research – should be celebrated, and we will continue doing so.
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