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But coral is right. going after the endangerment finding which is the legal underpinning of the clean air and climate program at the epa is a big deal. but the thing i think viewers should know is it is not just an ability of epa and the agency to regulate and protect unclean air and climate and regulate carbon. they actually are required tounder the law. the clean air act requires them to do this because pollutants are found to be harmful to human health and the environment. >> one of the sort of things i really took away that was shocking to me, coral, here is changing the timeline. so proje...

Determines upward motion, which means it determines precipitation and guess what? almost all the atmospheric moisture that we have around us today in humid washington, d.c., that comes from the tropics. so if you get that vertical motion wrong, down there, you get all the subsequent variables wrong. it's a fantastic systematic error and again, that along with the difference between the surface temperatures or rather, the lower surface air temperatures and what's being observed, that's sufficient to kill the endangerment finding. >> okay. so to the average pedestrian like me, if you get that wr...

Causation. >> i want to ask you about causation. >> sure. >> you have 31 governments. >> 31 different models. >> 31 different models. multiple governments. fudging the numbers. >> they're not fudging them. they're parameterizing. >> you used the word fudging. does our epa do that? does nasa do that? >> good question. the epa was told by the supreme court in 2007 that if it found that carbon dioxide endangered human health and welfare, that it had the power to regulate it under the clean air act. well, they produced an endangerment finding, 2009, and the endangerment finding for its prospective...

Those models systematically are not working, you can take down the endangerment finding and that would be the basis for all those policies that came out of the obama administration. >> which would mean you don't get to regulate -- >> absolutely. >> -- carbon dioxide. >> absolutely. the endangerment finding is the heart of the matter. to give you an idea how gung-ho the obama administration was on this issue, if you listen to his first inaugural speech, january 20th, 2009, it's the second substantive paragraph of the speech is about global warming. after health care. 90 days after he finished t...

Causation, but gee -- mark: but i want to ask you about causation. >> sure. mark: have you 31 governments. >> the 31 different models. >> 31 different models. multiple governments. >> right. mark: fudging the numbers? >> not fudging them parameterizing. mark: you used the word fudging. does our epa do that? does nasa do that? who does that for us? >> good question, mark, because the epa was told by the supreme court in 2007 that if it found the carbon dioxide endangered human health and welfare, that it had the power to regulate it under the clean air act. mark: this is the massachusetts. >> t...