Blatant Reality

By Jonathan Williams

Its always fun to see what kind of misinformation people are willing to disseminate in order to further the global warming alarmists’ agenda. This time, it seems that the AD Council is teaming up with Environmental Defense in a series of online ads (this one I got from Digg.com) that present the readers with these two choices: Leave air pollution unchecked or fight global warming (Click on thumbnail below).

 

 

Oh, so Environmental Defense is fighting to prevent us from spewing noxious chemical pollutants into the air that are somehow causing global warming, right? Sadly, that’s not what they are referring here. It’s all about our good friend, Carbon Dioxide.

 

Honestly people, pollution? Is that what we are now calling CO2? According to my definition, pollution is the “introduction of harmful substances or products into the environment.” In my book, CO2 doesn’t really fit that definition since the environment emits 30x more carbon dioxide than humans do(180 billion tons versus 6 billion tons). So the environment is now polluting itself, is that what Environmental Defense is implying?

 

This whole trying to make people link CO2 with pollution and making them think that human produced CO2 is different than natural CO2 is absolutely outrageous.

 

Anthropologically produced CO2 and naturally produced CO2 are identical molecules. An anthropologically produced CO2 molecule has no different affect on the environment than any naturally produced one. And you know what CO2 does in the environment? It’s essential for plants to grow. In fact, the increase in this “pollution” that we (and the environment mind you) are emitting into the atmosphere has actually been attributed to an increase in plant growth (page 8 & 9).

 

Now that doesn’t seem very “harmful” to the environment, does it?