Every Breath You Take

Stuff keeps happening faster than I can comment.

• The moment of complete overreach has arrived -- the Environmental Protection Agency has declared that CO2 is a pollutant. Not to put too fine a point on it, but if CO2 is a pollutant, I've been polluting the air with every breath I take. And unless the enforcement agents are cyborgs, they have been too. There isn't any activity that I undertake that isn't potentially subject to regulatory enforcement now. I'd suggest that if the EPA were really concerned about setting a good example, they could have all their bureaucrats stop breathing. But that would be churlish. The good news? I suspect this move will go back to the Supreme Court and will get slapped down, even though the Supremes (perhaps) inadvertently gave this folly the green light back in 2007. But it never should have come to that.
• Meanwhile, the Branch Carbonians continue to gather in Copenhagen for a week of holy ritual and holy writ. Many of these well-appointed scolds have been arriving in Copenhagen via private jet. An excellent point made here: "Taking a private jet to a conference on stopping global warming is a bit like traveling in a sedan chair carried by indentured servants to a summit on stopping human trafficking." These folks oppose incandescent lights. They apparently don't worry too much about incandescent hypocrisy. Read the whole thing -- lotsa good one-liners, including this one: “It’s too cold to walk from the hotel to the convention on global warming. Let’s take a limo!”