Stop the Carbon Madness!

Most us remember from our high school science classes that carbon is the element in the periodic table without which life would be impossible. In fact, carbon quite literally holds all life on this planet together at the molecular level. This humble, yet oh-so-important element has gotten a bad rap of late thanks to alarmists implicating carbon dioxide in the supposed global warming crisis. A crisis that, thanks to the Climategate scandal, we now know is likely not actually occurring.

Carbon dioxide is to trees and other plants what oxygen is to humans and animals. Trees breathe carbon dioxide in and produce oxygen as a byproduct where we breathe in oxygen and produce carbon dioxide as a byproduct. Without either carbon dioxide or oxygen, life on planet Earth would not be possible for any of us. But this week, the Environmental Protection Agency in its infinite wisdom has decided to classify carbon dioxide as a toxic chemical.

The carbon madness has run so far amok in the Federal government that our legislators are actually considering taxing cow farts and belches because of the carbon content of those emissions. Now cows have been farting and belching since the beginning of time with no ill environmental effects. Yet somehow Americans are expected to believe that these same emissions have suddenly become horribly toxic and are poisoning our planet just because the Federal government says so.

So what’s next? Will the Federal government next decide to place meters on humans to tax each of us on the number of times we exhale carbon dioxide per day (or God forbid, to monitor other gaseous emissions)? It really doesn’t seem all that far fetched considering that Congress has already proposed taxing cow emissions, as well as the Cap and Tax plan for a carbon credit market – a ponzi scheme that puts Bernie Madoff to shame.

A simple reading of the U.S. Constitution will find that the words carbon, emissions, cows and the like do not occur anywhere in Constitution, much less in the enumerated powers of the Federal government. The Federal government has no authority to go anywhere near these issues. If, in fact, there is proved to be a crisis, these are issues for the several states to resolve. States need to nullify any silly legislation coming out of Washington, DC regarding the carbon madness.

Considering that Obama’s Science Czar John Holdren believes that trees should have legal standing to file suit in a court of law, perhaps we should just wait for the trees of the world to band together and sue the EPA for classifying their air supply as a toxic gas and trying to eliminate it. As for me, I’ll put my faith in the states.

Lesley Swann is a Co-Host for Tenther Radio, the state chapter coordinator for the Tennessee Tenth Amendment Center, and founder of the East Tennessee 10th Amendment Group. She is a native of Anderson County, Tennessee.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 at 7:19 pm. It is filed under environment, Featured and tagged with carbon, Constitution, environment, EPA. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.