We Told You So: EPA Was Wrong About CO2 From the Start

[rangerrebew]

We Told You So: EPA Was Wrong About CO2 From the Start
2 days ago Guest Blogger 
By Wayne Christian

For years, Washington politicians told the American people there was a carbon dioxide (CO2) “problem” so serious it justified rewriting our entire energy economy. They claimed CO2 was dangerous, labeled it an “endangerment,” and used that finding as a blank check for regulation, mandates, and subsidies.

Many of us warned that this wasn’t science… it was politics. Now, even the Environmental Protection Agency is backing away from that claim.

By repealing the so-called endangerment finding, the EPA has admitted what working Americans have known all along: CO2 was never the existential threat it was sold to be. This single regulatory reversal wipes out more than a trillion dollars in compliance costs and saves families thousands of dollars per vehicle.

But before taxpayers breathe a sigh of relief, we need to talk about the billions already wasted, and the billions more Washington still wants to spend.

CO2 makes up about 0.04% of the Earth’s atmosphere. It is essential for photosynthesis and life itself. Plants depend on it. Crops require it. Throughout Earth’s history, life flourished when CO2 levels were far higher than today.

Yet politicians treated this trace, life-supporting gas as if it were toxic waste. And once you convince people there’s a “crisis,” the spending never stops.
 
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/02/14/we-told-you-so-epa-was-wrong-about-co2-from-the-start/

[DefiantMassRINO]

I drink liters of CO₂, and fart methane every day.  I'm a menace to life on earth.

An "EPA finding" is not a law, and it's a mistake to allow it to have the effect of law.

Executive Orders are not Laws.  Rules, Regulations, Policies, Procedures, Practices, Findings - or whatever else the Administrative State poops out - are not LAWS.  Precendents are not LAWS.  Judicial fiats are not LAWS.

LAWS are written and passed by Congress, and signed by the President.  Anything short of that is an extra-Constittutional bureaucratic abomination to be used as toilet paper.

[Free Vulcan]

For CO2 to do what they claim, it'd have to have the powers of Tinkerbell's magic pixie dust.

[DefiantMassRINO]

... or Hunter Biden's magic dust.

[Fishrrman]

"EPA Was Wrong About CO2 From the Start"

It wasn't a matter of being "wrong".
It was A LIE from the beginning.
Made up out of whole cloth.
No basis in fact.

And how long did they get away with it?
Almost... twenty years...!

[Smokin Joe]

"EPA Was Wrong About CO2 From the Start"

It wasn't a matter of being "wrong".
It was A LIE from the beginning.
Made up out of whole cloth.
No basis in fact.

And how long did they get away with it?
Almost... twenty years...!

Any scientist worthy of the title wasn't drinking at the Grant Money Geyser that surrounded that ruling, which eventually became an industry all its own, with incredible expenditures on projects and alterations that were never needed, and which lined pockets at the expense of us all.

We're fortunate that we didn't have another four years of Democrat domination, or we'd be in the same shape much of Europe is. At least here we could disagree, even if it was virtually impossible to get through the filters of peer review and media.

(It's okay, kids, you can exhale again!)