Trump's EPA Revokes Scientific Finding That Underpinned U.S. Fight Against Climate Change

[lostincalifornia]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressive move by the president to roll back climate regulations.

The rule finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency rescinds a 2009 government declaration known as the endangerment finding that determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.

The endangerment finding by the Obama administration is the legal underpinning of nearly all climate regulations under the Clean Air Act for motor vehicles, power plants and other pollution sources that are heating the planet.

President Donald Trump called the move “the single largest deregulatory action in American history,” while EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called the endangerment finding “the Holy Grail of federal regulatory overreach.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-trump-climate-change-epa-greenhouse-gas-emissions_n_698e2540e4b0e2bc55133dc6

[lapfog_1]

1. I probably won't be alive to see the worst of the coming climate disaster

but my adopted daughter probably will be.. and the daughter of my fiancée.

I stored all of the collect Climate data ( either from NOAA or NASA ) throughout the 1990s, both the uncorrected "raw instrument data" and the sensor corrected data. We built a system called EOSDIS which allowed researchers from various universities and other government agencies to access the climate data... Petabytes of climate data ( back when a Petabyte was really a serious amount of computer storage ).

I was a back bencher in meetings with VP Al Gore ( who, obviously, took a personal interest in EOS and EOSDIS ). Providing technical details to my Branch Chief and Center Director when needed.

I can't believe what is happening now. We have stuck our collective heads in the sand for 25 years... and are now prepared to go butt deep into the sand pit. Sigh.

The planet will survive, life will continue.. this is not about the end of life on the planet. But we barely feed ( and really we don't feed ) 9 billion people now. Anyone who has studied resource exhaustion collapse of a animal population knows that it is not a gradual thing... we won't come to 2050 or 2070 and find that we can only feed maybe 4 billion of us... what happens is total collapse. The planet will go on, but without humans ( and many many other species as well ).

[walkingman]

2. Sad that people put their own personal priorities above the interest of the entire world.

And when I say interests, it usually means wealth or power or both. That is just sick.

I sometimes wish there really was a hell based on your actions on this planet.