The Endangerment Finding Was Law, Not Scripture

There will inevitably be lawsuits, of course, because the Democrats never want to let an opportunity to run our lives and ruin our economy get away from them. Axios may have spoiled their legal arguments, however, in posting a story that admitted carbon emissions would continue declining despite President Trump’s “climate rollback.” But I knew there would be Leftists freaking out about this perfectly sensible move.

The White House says the move will save American taxpayers $1.3 trillion, including an average of $2,400 per vehicle. That’s fantastic news in a year where affordability is the headline. But I’m not here to talk about the economics. I’m here to talk about the religious fervor with which the Left has responded to the regulatory rollback.

That’s exactly what this is, of course. The Left said we had to get religion (read: Christianity) out of the public sphere so we could move towards a more enlightened, scientific, and logical society. Religion, they argued, was holding us back from real progress. Nature, however, abhors a vacuum, and they didn’t remove religion from the public sphere. They simply replaced it with another religion they preferred.

Sure, it’s a “religion” where killing your unborn children is a sacrament, and there are 57 genders, but it’s a religion nonetheless. Like the Aztecs and others who made sacrifices to appease the gods and control the weather, Democrats believe the same thing. And if “climate activism” is their form of worship, the EPA was their church.

Just look at some of the language used by guys like Adam Schiff.

They truly believe the EPA controls the weather, don’t they? What else could Schiff mean by saying weather events “will not pause for politics,” after all?

In the fall of 2024, a Florida Democrat blamed Ron DeSantis’ removal of the phrase “climate change” from state documents for Hurricane Helene. Nevermind that 2024 was a slow hurricane season, of course, with just two major hurricanes. State Senator Carlos Guillermo Smith didn’t make that connection, however, writing on X, “Now is a great time to remember Ron DeSantis recently signed a bill deleting all references to ‘climate change’ from Florida law.”

But ABC’s David Muir took it one step further.

“Repealed U.S. power to regulate climate.”

TO. REGULATE. CLIMATE.

Did David Muir really believe that until yesterday, the EPA was able to snap its fingers and control the weather? That it was the only thing standing between us and hurricanes, wildfires, and other disasters — ones that were occuring long before any of us drove an SUV, mind you — and somehow we’ve lost control over the climate?

How insane and unscientific is that.

But it is religious. Ancient religions believed that by behaving in certain ways, sacrificing a few dozen children or virgins, and appeasing the gods, they’d have favorable weather and a good harvest. Modern-day Democrats are no different. They have turned climate change into a religion, the faith-based arm of their rebranded communist agenda (something Rush Limbaugh predicted after the fall of the Berlin Wall).

If repealing one regulatory finding sends you into apocalyptic panic, maybe the problem isn’t the policy — it’s the “theology.” The climate will do what climates have always done; the impact of mankind is a blip on the radar. The economy, on the other hand, responds directly to regulation.

And the EPA was never a weather-control device. It was a regulatory agency empowered by a legal interpretation that turned carbon into a moral offense. Revoking the Endangerment Finding doesn’t mean we’ve lost control over the climate. It simply restores a measure of sanity to a system that had begun treating a good quality of life and a strong economy as a sin requiring penance.

The hysteria tells you everything. When policy disagreements are framed as heresy, when regulatory changes are treated as apocalyptic events, you’re not watching science, you’re watching people defend a doctrine. And for many on the Left, climate activism has become less about data and more about devotion.

There will inevitably be lawsuits, of course, because the Democrats never want to let an opportunity to run our lives and ruin our economy get away from them. Axios may have spoiled their legal arguments, however, in posting a story that admitted carbon emissions would continue declining despite President Trump’s “climate rollback.” But I knew there would be Leftists freaking out about this perfectly sensible move.

The White House says the move will save American taxpayers $1.3 trillion, including an average of $2,400 per vehicle. That’s fantastic news in a year where affordability is the headline. But I’m not here to talk about the economics. I’m here to talk about the religious fervor with which the Left has responded to the regulatory rollback.

That’s exactly what this is, of course. The Left said we had to get religion (read: Christianity) out of the public sphere so we could move towards a more enlightened, scientific, and logical society. Religion, they argued, was holding us back from real progress. Nature, however, abhors a vacuum, and they didn’t remove religion from the public sphere. They simply replaced it with another religion they preferred.

Sure, it’s a “religion” where killing your unborn children is a sacrament, and there are 57 genders, but it’s a religion nonetheless. Like the Aztecs and others who made sacrifices to appease the gods and control the weather, Democrats believe the same thing. And if “climate activism” is their form of worship, the EPA was their church.

Just look at some of the language used by guys like Adam Schiff.

They truly believe the EPA controls the weather, don’t they? What else could Schiff mean by saying weather events “will not pause for politics,” after all?

In the fall of 2024, a Florida Democrat blamed Ron DeSantis’ removal of the phrase “climate change” from state documents for Hurricane Helene. Nevermind that 2024 was a slow hurricane season, of course, with just two major hurricanes. State Senator Carlos Guillermo Smith didn’t make that connection, however, writing on X, “Now is a great time to remember Ron DeSantis recently signed a bill deleting all references to ‘climate change’ from Florida law.”

But ABC’s David Muir took it one step further.

“Repealed U.S. power to regulate climate.”

TO. REGULATE. CLIMATE.

Did David Muir really believe that until yesterday, the EPA was able to snap its fingers and control the weather? That it was the only thing standing between us and hurricanes, wildfires, and other disasters — ones that were occuring long before any of us drove an SUV, mind you — and somehow we’ve lost control over the climate?

How insane and unscientific is that.

But it is religious. Ancient religions believed that by behaving in certain ways, sacrificing a few dozen children or virgins, and appeasing the gods, they’d have favorable weather and a good harvest. Modern-day Democrats are no different. They have turned climate change into a religion, the faith-based arm of their rebranded communist agenda (something Rush Limbaugh predicted after the fall of the Berlin Wall).

If repealing one regulatory finding sends you into apocalyptic panic, maybe the problem isn’t the policy — it’s the “theology.” The climate will do what climates have always done; the impact of mankind is a blip on the radar. The economy, on the other hand, responds directly to regulation.

And the EPA was never a weather-control device. It was a regulatory agency empowered by a legal interpretation that turned carbon into a moral offense. Revoking the Endangerment Finding doesn’t mean we’ve lost control over the climate. It simply restores a measure of sanity to a system that had begun treating a good quality of life and a strong economy as a sin requiring penance.

The hysteria tells you everything. When policy disagreements are framed as heresy, when regulatory changes are treated as apocalyptic events, you’re not watching science, you’re watching people defend a doctrine. And for many on the Left, climate activism has become less about data and more about devotion.