This is happening | Stephanie Rogers

But while a few select regions could benefit from a warmer overall climate, most of the world would suffer on a nightmarish scale, and the feedback effect applies to warming as well.

Raging wildfires, extreme water scarcity, expanding deserts, changing ecosystems. Heat-wave deaths, the spread of deadly mosquito-borne diseases, growing dead zones in the oceans, death of healthy trees and other vegetation, coral extinction. War. Climate refugees.
...ExxonMobil was one of the largest sources of funding for such scientists for over a decade, and purported to stop in 2008. Surprise! They lied. Records show that the oil giant paid out $125,000 that year to several climate action opposition groups.... Naturally, the sun does have a lot of influence on the climate, and during the 1,150 years for which scientists have records, temperatures on this planet closely correlated with solar activity.

It was right around 1960 that the Earth's temperatures began to break away.

Upton vows fight against EPA climate rules for power plants and refineries - The Hill's E2-Wire

"We will not allow the administration to regulate what they have been unable to legislate — this Christmas surprise is nothing short of a backdoor attempt to implement their failed job-killing cap-and-trade scheme,” Upton said in a statement.

“Today's announcement marks a crescendo in the EPA's long regulatory assault against America's energy producers. The EPA has its foot firmly on the throat of our economic recovery,” he said.

But the planned rules drew praise from a senior Senate Democrat. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said the EPA is taking a “measured and reasonable step” toward curtailing pollution that she said threatens children and families.

“These pollution-control standards would apply to some of the largest emitters of dangerous pollution across the country, while also encouraging investment in the nation’s clean energy technologies,” Boxer said in a statement.

Twitter / David Roberts

You're a reporter. You want to help your audience understand the cost of new EPA regs. So you ask...Jim Inhofe? What value comes from that?