The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed onerous new limits carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants. The standards would prevent construction of new facilities, gradually close older ones and eventually affect even gas-fired units, says Paul Driessen, senior policy adviser for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow.
EPA says the rules will safeguard our health and welfare from storms, sea level rise and other ravages of man-made climate change. They are in addition to 1,900 other Obama-era regulations designed to curtail or terminate coal mining and use — and dictate activities affecting air and emissions, land and soils, waterways and puddles.
Many scientists challenge EPA’s claim that carbon dioxide controls climate change.
- They point to solar, cosmic, oceanic and other factors the agency ignores; and note that higher concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) spur plant growth and green our planet.
- They point out that humans contribute only 4 percent of the CO2 that enters the atmosphere each year, and U.S. coal-based power generation is responsible for only 3 percent of worldwide human CO2 emissions.
In other words, the power plants EPA wants to shut down account for a trivial 0.01 percent of the carbon dioxide added to Earth’s atmosphere annually, raising CO2 levels to about 0.04 percent of the atmosphere.
Via: Human Events
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The fact is that there are other methods to lower CO2 emissions rather than by decreasing US power plant carbon emissions by 10% (as proposed by the EPA). For instance, some countries such as South Africa, Iceland and others are capturing and then converting CO2 into more efficient fuel sources such as methanol and, in some cases, even biomass fuels. The EPA should firstlook into these alternative uses for excess carbon rather than by simply reducing emissions across the board.
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