Relax, CO2 is Good for You!

[Are_grits_groceries]

A new ad campaign promises to alert the unsuspecting American public to a major boondoggle: global climate change caused by human activity. And what's the latest outrageous lie? That higher levels of CO2 are bad for you and bad for the planet. Fortunately, we have friends at two new organizations, who are revealing that the international scientific community is manipulating us into believing we've got to act now against the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

The Washington Post reports that long-time oil industry executive H. Leighton Steward has teamed with Corbin J. Robertson Jr., chief executive of and leading shareholder in Natural Resource Partners, a Houston-based owner of coal resources, to get out the message that higher CO2 levels will actually help the Earth's ecosystems. They have invested $1 million into two new organizations, one to lobby, one to educate the public. How lucky we are that these fearless oil and coal industry executives are leading this charge for truth.

CO2 IS Green- Contact Your Senator Today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxCQHn-w0Bw

It goes without saying that these gentlemen have the right to free speech and to spend their money in promoting it. As citizens, it's our job to question and educate, expose and maybe, lampoon. The cynical manipulation of "facts" in service to a doomed industry would be sad, except that the stakes are high.
http://www.care2.com/causes/global-warming/blog/relax-co2-is-good-for-you/

People are trying to dumb down the teaching of science. The average American will soon not know enough basic facts to understand that this stupidity. Some already don't know squat.

[hootinholler]

1. I was just posting a thread on this.

I nearly puked when I saw that commercial this morning.

Big oil, Big coal, the usual suspects and more.

It never stops, does it?

-Hoot

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. No. Something stupid every minute.

"The Earth Is Flat" will probably be the new meme.

"I can't see a curve from my house. The Earth has to be flat." Meh!

[hootinholler]

3. I guess only us two care? n/t

[AntiFascist]

4. Look what it has done for the planet Venus....

:rofl:

[Uncle Joe]

5. I heard that Venus was hotter than Mercury; which is closer to the sun and that

Earth and Venus have about the same amount of carbon but ours is mostly in the ground; until we burn it that is, while Venus' carbon is mostly in the atmosphere contributing to it's greenhouse affect.

Fascinating when you thing about it.