{"id":10005,"date":"2013-05-13T06:05:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10005"},"modified":"2013-05-12T20:52:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T03:52:58","slug":"wall-street-journals-weapons-grade-denial-in-defense-of-carbon-dioxide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=10005","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Journal’s ‘Weapons-Grade Denial’: ‘In Defense of Carbon Dioxide’"},"content":{"rendered":"

From William Happer and Harrison Schmitt at the once-but-no-longer respectable newspaper known as the Wall Street Journal<\/i><\/a>…<\/p>\n

Contrary to what some would have us believe, increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will benefit the increasing population on the planet by increasing agricultural productivity.
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\nFor most plants, and for the animals and humans that use them, more carbon dioxide, far from being a “pollutant” in need of reduction, would be a benefit.
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\nNowadays, in an age of rising population and scarcities of food and water in some regions, it’s a wonder that humanitarians aren’t clamoring for more atmospheric carbon dioxide. Instead, some are denouncing it.<\/div>\n

If you have no idea why the nonsense above — beloved by the fossil-fuel industry, assuredly, but embarrassingly shameful when offered in an op-ed by the WSJ<\/i> — is “dangerously wrong,” as Phil Plait at Slate describes it, see his response to it<\/a>, which begins like this…<\/p>\n

I see a lot of pretty amazingly bad global warming denial online. It ranges from mildly cherry-picked data to such baldly transparent garbage that you have to wonder if the person who wrote it can possibly, actually believe what they are saying is true.<\/p>\n

After reading dozens, hundreds, of such mind-numbing articles, I think we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve found a winner. One that is so sweepingly wrong and based on such a ridiculous premise that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s weapons-grade denial.<\/p><\/div>\n

Plait’s response is worth reading in full if you are unclear on any aspect of the issues here about which the WSJ<\/i> — now owned by Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp — is hoping to hoax you in support of doing nothing to fight climate change. But this particular passage of his is particularly on point: “They claim that CO2<\/sub> is just a natural and ‘harmless byproduct of nature’<\/a>, which is bonkers; try living on Venus<\/a> to see why.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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