Lee Zeldin left a CNN staring blankly for nearly two minutes on Monday as he took her apart regarding a recent proposal at the EPA. As the interview started, host Kasie Hunt dumped an attempted gotcha question on the EPA administrator, asking him if he accepts the "overwhelming scientific consensus" that greenhouse gas emissions drive "man-made climate change." That was in the context of a recent announcement that the Trump administration will revoke a 2009 endangerment finding that led to the implementation of stringent regulations. 

Zeldin clearly came prepared, because he peppered Hunt with facts, and for once, a CNN host couldn't come up with a reason to interrupt a Republican. 

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HUNT: Do you accept the overwhelming scientific consensus that these greenhouse gas emissions are the biggest drivers of man-made climate change?

ZELDIN: Well, it's great to be on with you. First, it's worth pointing out that all eight or so images that you just posted don't he screen have nothing to do with this week's announcement. What the 2009 endangerment finding had to do with was with regard to mobile sources, vehicles. This week's proposal to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding was with regards to mobile sources, vehicles. CNN has been using a lot of photos where they show smoke stacks of stationary sources like power plants. That's not what we proposed. 

Now, going back to 2009, the science that they were reviewing included both optimistic to pessimistic scenarios. To reach the 2009 endangerment finding, they relied on the most pessimistic views of the science. The great news is that a lot of the pessimistic views of the science in 2009 that was being assumed ended up not panning out. Hey, that's great, we can rely on 2025 facts instead of 2009 bad assumptions.

Whenever you speak to any left-winger (as all CNN hosts are) about this topic, you have to understand that climate change is a religious deity to them. It doesn't matter how many decades we've gone without the worst-case predictions coming true. Climate change is a position of faith for these people, and that means they shift the data to meet their preconceived outcome. If new data arises showing climate change isn't the level of threat they claimed it to be, and thus policies should be changed, they brush that off as "denialism."

That's why Hunt doesn't ask if the prior regulations were effective. She doesn't care. Climate change is simply an altar on which sacrifices must be made, whether they produce anything tangible or not. 

In regard to what Zeldin is talking about, the 2009 Obama-era endangerment finding was used as a power grab to cram down unworkable emissions standards on auto manufacturers without going through Congress. What the EPA is doing does not affect stationary pollution sources, such as manufacturing plants. CNN has been falsely framing the issue by plastering pictures of smokestacks everywhere, making it seem as if the Trump administration is legalizing all sources of pollution. 

Zeldin wasn't done, though. He then pointed out to Hunt that recent Supreme Court rulings demand they change the regulatory structure, something I'm sure CNN hasn't considered and certainly doesn't care about. 

ZELDIN: The other thing to is that at the EPA, we don't just get ot creatively make the law whatever we want it to be. The Supreme Court ruled in Loper Bright, overturning the Chevron Doctrine. West Virginia v. EPA, Michigan v. EPA, that agencies like the EPA can't just use vague language and statute and try to make it be whatever we want it to be. The major policy doctrine also says that when you are going to reach something like an endangerment finding and then have trillions of dollars in regulation, that's something that should be decided by our elected members of Congress and passing [a] statute.

If Democrats want to cost American companies and consumers trillions of dollars collectively, they can pass a bill that institutes their desired regulatory scheme. Having unelected bureaucrats at the EPA just make stuff up as they go, taking a god-like and completely unaccountable role over the economy, is insane. It's also not legal, as the Supreme Court decided. 

As expected, CNN chose to double down after Zeldin's master class. In a write-up on his comments, they produced a false headline about "pollution" and slapped yet another picture of a smokestack on it. 

But again, CNN doesn't care about all those details. This is a religion for them, and if you don't bend the knee, they'll label you a heretic and continue lying. 

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