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What The EPA Just Said About The Sun Has Everybody Scratching Their Heads
While the Environmental Protection Agency has a well-documented record of opposing a litany of manmade pollutants and human behaviors, a recent tweet posted to the agency’s Twitter account has even some environmentalists perplexed.
The latest villain in the Obama administration’s eco-friendly narrative is a resource vital to the preservation of virtually all life on earth: water.
Think sunny days are good for plants? Not always. Sunlight causes #ozone to form, which harms foliage, weakens trees: http://t.co/6skU7aBsTx
— U.S. EPA (@EPA) September 29, 2015
An overwhelming majority of the social media responses that followed the above post served to ridicule what appeared to many users to be an absurd claim.
@EPA Lemme just leave this here for you. If you have a 3rd grader around there, they can explain it. pic.twitter.com/Raw4WECUeV — Stef Harris (@av8orchk) September 29, 2015
Several of the sardonic replies focused on the EPA’s ostensible history of convoluted restrictions and regulations.
@EPA You guys should issue a regulation that bans this sunlight thing.
— GoldAndPurp (@GoldAndPurp) September 29, 2015
@EPA Really? Because the EPA says the opposite-Ozone is destroyed by sun. Can you get your ‘consensus’ straight? http://t.co/0bj8Kyht4s — RightWired (@_donaldson) September 29, 2015
The backlash was apparently enough to prompt a clarification from the federal agency.
Correction: Sunny days are good for plants, but ground-level ozone is not. Sunlight helps ozone to form. http://t.co/kyFxKK2e89
— U.S. EPA (@EPA) September 30, 2015
For already incredulous observers, however, even the correction was worthy of mockery.
@EPA Confused on sunshine? Sure we trust you on climate change. #derpspic.twitter.com/vGDYDv6pc0 — Justin Johnson (@jjohnson101075) September 30, 2015
Does the sun’s presence in the sky cause you to worry about our environment? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/what-the-epa-just-said-about-the-sun-has-everybody-scratching-their-heads/
Try not forget that the people working at the EPA spend their day looking at porn and pooping in the hallways. Think I’m kidding? look it up!