It's Time To Pardon Carbon -- CO-2's bad rep is undeserved.

Forbes ^ | 10.28.10, 12:00 PM EDT | Larry Bell,

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

It's high time we recognize that carbon dioxide has been treated unfairly. Not only have the good deeds of that wonderful molecule so essential to rain forests, begonias and plants that feed God's creatures been ignored, it has even come to be demonized as an endangering pollutant and climate-ravaging menace. What real evidence has been offered up to support these defamatory charges? Absolutely none.

Take the EPA's CO-2 endangerment finding, for example. Shrouded under the ever- expanding blanket of the Clean Air Act, it is being applied to validate an unprecedented regulatory takeover of carbon-emitting energy and construction industry permitting. Another proposed congressional end-run application will restrict emissions produced by long-haul trucks.

The endangerment finding ignores conclusions of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) own internal research report: "Given the downward trend in temperatures since 1998 (which some think will continue until at least 2030), there is no particular reason to rush into decisions based upon a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data."

The study author, a senior analyst at the EPA's National Center for Environment Economics, was subsequently removed from his position after serving for 38 years.

And exactly what man-made climate crisis will such a ruling protect us from? If the science is really "settled," as alarmists claim, how are the large numbers of knowledgeable dissenters accounted for? Take, for example, noted physicist Harold Lewis, who recently resigned from the American Physical Society over its suppression of views contrary to those of man-made global warming orthodoxy. Excerpting from his open letter, the APS Fellow and member of 67 years declared:

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[kittymyrib]

The Clean Air Act and the interstate commerce clause have been chosen as the means to enslave U.S. citizens by the federal government. It’s time to get tough on our public serpents and refuse to let them threaten us. They work for us, and we can refuse to pay them if they forget their place.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[spintreebob]

Conservatives exhale CO2. That is absolute proof that CO2 is harmful and should be banned. :)

[wayoverontheright]

Rush just said today that the first thing the Republicans should do is repeal the law phasing out the incandescent bulb. I think that’s brilliant, it would shed more light (pun intended) on the unjust criminalization of CO2.

[CedarDave]

On election day, when New Mexico elected a new Republican governor and a slew of new republican legislators, Gov. Richardson's environmental board, stacked in favor of the radical environmentalists, adopted mandatory cap and trade carbon rules that will cost the state an estimated 3 billion dollars and tens of thousands of jobs. During public meetings prior to the decision, citizens in all areas of the state attended to protest the draconian rules that would, in effect, take away good paying private industry jobs. Both Richardson's Lt. Gov (running for governor) and Republican Martinez (who won) were against the proposal. Even the ABQ Journal editorialized that it was a job killer.

The good news is that the new Republican governor will one way or another nullify the board action and the legislature hopefully will put a stop to this in the future unless the "settled" science shows it is a real problem and not a wealth redistribution and de-industrialization scheme.

See also this new thread:

New Mexico to Implement First-in-the-Nation Rules to Reduce GW Pollutants from Multiple Sectors

[BenLurkin]

Meanwhile the idiot voters in California allowed an economy killing cap and trade schemem to remain state law.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Once we have our lightbulbs back, can we have real toilets and real showheads?

[3niner]

All plants on Earth want more CO2. When grown with more CO2 in the air around them, they grow faster, are more robust, need less fertilizer, and require less water.

It's ironic that environuts use the term "green" to describe attempts to reduce CO2 levels.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks,...got to put that link on my Weekly happenings thread.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup ( Midterm election impact )

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

There are some speed bumps for the moonbeam Governor and his cronies.

[Gondring]

All plants on Earth want more CO2. When grown with more CO2 in the air around them, they grow faster, are more robust, need less fertilizer, and require less water.

Actually, no. And that's not anything new.

[I got the rope]

I’m thinking GE and others did this because the patent ran out on the light bulb.

[Marine_Uncle]

Some are finally to speak up. Good for Forbes to be willing to speak from other then one side.

[Morpheus2009]

Teach your neighbor that nuclear is not a dirty word