Last month, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administered what they hope will be the coup de grace to America’s coal industry. They unveiled a new “Clean Power Plan” (CPP) with much fanfare and red-hot rhetoric, most of it faithfully echoed by the Washington press corps and the world’s news media.

National Public Radio, CNN, Al Jazeera, the BBC and German television believe our grandchildren are likely to perish unless we reduce global temperatures in 2030 by 0.02 percent — the goal of EPA’s misaligned plan to shut down more U.S. fossil fuel-powered plants.