EPA - Threat to American Security

[Brainonska511]

Show me the evidence that I am a troll. You don't like me so you call me a troll.

Exhibit A: http://forums.anandtech.com/search.php?do=finduser&u=308038

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I am not a troll.

 

[zinfamous]

Global Warming (previously known as Global Cooling and occasionally known as Climate Change, Extreme Weather, and other euphemisms) is a religion. And like a religion, it's full of arbitrary, contradictory, self-affirming, shifting, and incoherent claims asserted as unassailable truth (immediately dropped the moment another becomes more advantageous) that literally anything can be true, for any reason, from any person, at any time.

...uh huh.

 

[Thebobo]

I'm happy to have them around, but they've gone beyond fighting heavy metals and toxins. CO2 is not our enemy, and I'm concerned about the cost of "fighting" it. Their current mission is not one I can stand behind.

Maybe I'll eat crow in the next couple years, if they keep the grid stable while enacting these regulations. I'd be happy to be wrong about the situation and the risk we face. Hell, if next winter is warm we should do just fine.

I just don't think we should take electricity for granted. It seems too smug to presume we can apply pressure unnecessarily. It just stinks of bad policy.

Marked for crow eating April 25th 2016 🙂

 

[Babbles]

It may be fair to say that the EPA is always 100% perfect - to expect that from any person or organization is just not rational or reasonable. However, the EPA does do a fantastic job with basic science and keeping our environment as clean as they can within their mandate.

EPA testing methods - or variations thereof - are used in so many products that you don't think about, you would probably be shocked as to how your quality of life would come crashing down if you were to eliminate the EPA.

For what it's worth, I am an analytical scientist and have worked in the environmental chemistry industry off and on for a few years (by few, I mean ~15). At my current employer, we are actively working with the EPA in several ways. I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume most, if not all, people in this thread have very little, if any, understanding of this very complex issue. Simplifying things into EPA = Threat is just intellectually dishonest.

 

[John Connor]

Yeah, the EPA was dead on when they said the air was clean at ground zero after 9/11 🙄

 

[bradly1101]

As such, policy must be enacted to protect the American power grid from the EPA. To elevate the value of American lives over reduced carbon emissions where the two issues conflict with one another.

Why should people come first? We just ruin everything.