I don’t want to dwell on the headline above from the Times, but this is just another example of how, as in democracy’s death of a thousand cuts, our journalists deceive, confuse and manipulate public opinion. They also think they are clever about it, just as they think they are smarter than they are.
“President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet,” the Times piece begins. “The action is a key step in removing limits on carbon dioxide, methane and four other greenhouse gases that scientists say are supercharging heat waves, droughts, wildfires and other extreme weather.”
Well.
Ethics Alarms 
It’s a great thing the the EPA to withdraw that finding.
First, it will make it harder for a future EPA to regulate carbon dioxide as though it was a pollutant.
Second, it’ll be appealed and with any luck the Supreme Court will reverse its decision to let the EPA classify carbon dioxide as a ‘pollutant’. On Major Questons alone, I think it’ll fail — if Congress wanted to include carbon dioxide, it could have done so.
Bully!
Jack wrote: “Wait, the government has the power to regulate the climate, and still let the weather in my part of the country hit the lowest temperatures in over a century?”
Yup. Climate control is just like the thermostat in your house. You can dial it up or down, above or below St. Barack’s 72 degrees, depending on your privilege and economic tolerance.
jvb
“(Where are all those hurricanes?)”
To paraphrase the former texagg04: After 2005’s Katrina, 2006 will be the Year Of The SUPER HURRICANES!
2007
2008
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2012
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2017: see! We told you so!!!!
PWS
It’s so strange to see the way the mainstream press is talking about this. They speak of Trump rescinding a scientific finding, as if scientific findings were established or rescinded by decree. They also speak of him erasing the government’s authority to fight climate change, as if the limits of government authority were likewise set by executive decree.