EPA Fronts Corruption And Fraud : Global Warming Regulations

From the beginning, the push for global warming, now climate change as global warming has taken on some bad connotations as the climate change models understood to be a fraud, has always been about changing the narrative from finding new fossil energy resources that will benefit the citizens and industry, to finding new ''fossil'' energy resources that will kill the planet.

That $billions of dollars have been spent over the last decades to reduce Carbon Dioxide, Co2, hasn't shown any reduced effects on our nation or the world from rising temperature, and has fallen into some kind of black hole of the press. But way not, the press are part and parcel of progressive liberalism.

Maybe because there hasn't been any changes in temperature relative to what history over the last 15,000 years can prove as normal, 'but hey, pay no attention to those facts because our models will save us from future disasters, all that is required is a few $billion more tax dollars this year to continue our research.

'Yeah, the facts show we have been wrong in the past several decades, but that's because our research is about to have a huge break though that will prove beyond an doubt we will all die if our research will is stopped.'

What? Sadly there are still millions of voters that can't understand the progressive liberal democrats are using and abusing them for their own gains.

EPA’s Top Priority Should Be to Eliminate Bogus Global Warming Models
Kevin Dayaratna / @kdd0211 / Nicolas Loris / @NiconomistLoris / January 18, 2017    

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s confirmation hearing to head up the Environmental Protection Agency provided a glimpse into how the agency would operate under new leadership.
Critical reforms should rein in regulations that have little scientific backing and environmental benefit. A top priority for the EPA and the new administration should be eliminating the use of the social cost of greenhouse gas emissions.

Over the last eight years, the Obama administration has relied on a metric known as the social cost of carbon to justify many of its global warming regulations. In addition, the administration recently began to consider similar metrics regarding methane and nitrous oxide emissions.
Here’s how it works.

The social cost of carbon is a monetary value measuring the alleged climate change damages from each ton of emitted carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The EPA also assigns monetary values to other greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide.

In this framework, adding the alleged benefits of abated carbon dioxide, methane, or nitrous oxide emissions increases the benefits in the agency’s cost-benefit analyses.
As a result, the EPA and other agencies exaggerate the benefits of global warming regulations or deciding on whether or not to build energy projects, whether it is the Keystone XL pipeline or a coal export terminal.

The social cost has nothing to do with spewing pollutants into the atmosphere that are potentially hazardous to public health, but instead has everything to do with politicizing man-made global warming.

At The Heritage Foundation, we have found that these models measuring the social cost of carbon, social cost of methane, and social cost of nitrous oxide might be interesting academic exercises—but they are nowhere near reliable enough to be useful for devising energy and environmental policy. The social cost of carbon, social cost of methane, and social cost of nitrous oxide are based on three statistical models.

At Heritage, we rigorously looked at two of these models and found that they use outdated assumptions regarding climate sensitivity, ignore the Office of Management and Budget’s recommendations regarding discount rates, and are based on economic forecasts 300 years into the future. Upon making very reasonable changes to these assumptions, we found that the estimates of the social cost of carbon, and more recently the social cost of methane and social cost of nitrous oxide, drop considerably (in some cases by 60-90 percent).

In fact, under some very reasonable assumptions, the social cost of carbon can even be negative, suggesting some benefits of carbon dioxide emissions. Moreover, at Heritage we found that if the EPA and other agencies continue to use these models and cost estimates to justify their regulations, it would impose devastating effects on the economy.

Ordinary families would suffer as electricity prices would increase all across the country, disproportionately impacting lower-income households. Economic prosperity would decline, as would job opportunities.

Importantly, these regulations would have little to no climate benefit. Our research has also consistently found that reducing the emissions of these greenhouse gases would have a negligible effect on global temperatures and sea level rise.

The Trump administration should ban the use of these integrated assessment models and the social cost of greenhouse gases for EPA regulations and policymaking. Enabling markets and entrepreneurs to meet America’s energy demands, not the whims of bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., will be one of the first steps toward making American energy even better.