No, it is the federal EPA that forced us into that program. They did the same thing with our water as well. We are currently trying to get out of it as long as we have a Republican Governor and President, but I haven't heard anything as of late.
As I already posted, the US is doing more than her share of cleaning up the planet. It's the other countries that we have no control over that's adding to the Co2 levels.
I agree, the US is probably doing more than other nations in reducing CO2 levels. However, the US is also the 2nd largest emitter of greenhouse gases and the largest on per ca pita basis. Since China is the highest emitter in tons per year but is low as a per capita emitter, the Paris Accords assigned the US with a higher annual reduction goal than China which gave Trump a good excuse to refuse to support the accords arguing that US was doing enough and it was China's turn to bear the load.
This reminds me of a situation that occurred in a small Louisiana town on the banks of the Mississippi about 60 or 70 years ago. The Mississippi was experiencing some of the worst flooding in many years. In this little town the mayor and city council organized blacks who lived nearest the river to sandbag since they would suffer the most damage. The White people provided supplies, coffee and sandwiches. This went on day and all night and into the next day. Then some of the blacks noticed something was missing, white folks who sat on their porches watching the work. Since white people owned the shacks they rented, the blacks thought the whites should do some work. One thing lead to another and the hundreds of blacks walked off. And since there weren't enough workers, the river did what it always does. It rose, flooded all the homes. What was left was not worth saving. I expect something similar on a global scale as climate changes and the nations most responsible do little or nothing because they've done their share.
The difference in your analogy is that they knew the river would rise and flood. We don't know what increased Co2 or any other gas would do. Most of the climate models were wrong in the past, and all they have to go on are those models.
Many years ago our river started fire. The theory was that if they dumped chemicals into such a huge amount of water like the Great Lakes, those chemicals would dissipate and never be noticed. Well they were wrong, but it took empirical evidence before they did something about it. Water simply doesn't catch on fire.
With global warming (or climate change if you will) we don't have empirical evidence of anything. We have predictions, models, but nothing concrete.
We have Alexandria Kelly Bundy who says we only have 12 years to exist; Beto says 10. Now we've all seen these predictions before and they never materialized. Increased hurricanes, increased tornados, increased earth quakes, cities buried under water, you name it, and somebody predicted it years ago.
The sooner government can control fuel and healthcare, the sooner they will have total control over the people. That's what this is really all about.
Ray got his PhD from the Limbaugh Institute.
We know hoe high CO2 affects our climate.
It is SCIENCE.
I wish you uneducated assfucks would quit pretending you actually know something & STFU.
If in 1990, a scientist said that if we continues with emission on the current pace that NY could be flooded as early as in 20 years is not saying it will happen. They are saying it could happen. As our CO2 levels increase there is a range of effects. Stating what the worst could be is not a fucking promise.
It does not mean the models are wrong.
For you stupid assfucks out there, some action has been taken & that would change the models.
When your doctor tells you smoking could kill you in 30 years & you go from 3 packs a pack to one, that changes your outlook.
It takes decades for the Earth to remove excess CO2 from the atmosphere.
You stupid fucks think we can wait until the worse effects hit, we can just cut our emissions & everything.
There is a multi decade delay.
Why the fuck are you too stupid to get it.
Dave, I'm pushing 60 now, and I remember as a child when we were trying to make our country more green. It hasn't stopped. No matter how much we do, they only want more. And there is no end in sight.
And with every so-called improvement, it comes at a cost. Oh......you may not see it. The government doesn't send us each a bill for our cost of green. It's intrinsic in everything we buy. You're paying for it, you just don't know it. Maybe if you did, you wouldn't be such a pushover for all this doom and gloom talk.
So what did we do since that time?
Outlawed DDT.
Outlawed lead in gasoline and paint.
Outlawed asbestus.
Outlawed Fluorocarbons in spray cans.
CAFE standards on cars.
CAFE standards on trucks.
Vast expansion of cleaner burning gasoline blends across the country.
Environmental friendly anti-freeze.
Outlawed incinerators in homes that burned garbage.
The elimination of styrofoam containers for fast food products.
Much lower sulfur content in diesel fuel.
Federal requirement of Diesel Emission Fluid in all diesel vehicles manufactured after 2010.
The elimination of incandescent light bulbs.
Elimination of toilets with 2 gallon tanks.
Environment friendly home and business insulation.
Mandated recycling programs.
New environmental standards for lawn equipment.
Electric cars.
Burning up our food supply to manufacture ethanal.
Water saving shower heads.
Increased energy efficiency on appliances.
Now these are just SOME of the changes on a national level. Then there are more at state and city levels such as a ban on plastic straws, a ban on helium balloons, bans on plastic grocery bags, bans on the use of tobacco products, bans on wood burning fires, emission testing on vehicles, and in NYC, a consideration of banning hotdogs.
And after all this (and much more) what have we got to show for it? The environment is in more danger now than it's ever been according to environmentalists.
