The politicization of science has scary implications for property rights. Indeed, the religion of man made global warming has practically no limit on its reach. On April 17, 2009, the Obama administration announced the EPA’s formal finding that carbon dioxide and several other greenhouse gases “endanger” public health and welfare as a landmark and long overdue step toward slowing global warming. The finding gives the EPA the authority to regulate emissions under the Clean Air Act. I’m still trying to figure out why we are planning to incur hundreds of billions of dollars in green technology costs based on a science with models that can predict rain with a 50 percent accuracy the next day. But the reach of the global warming crowd knows no limit. Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have issued a study which concludes that obesity contributes to global warming. I have to draw a line in the sand. I am officially revoking my citizenship when the government starts regulating my intake of In-N-Out Burgers.
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