Okay okay, this really isn’t shocking news to most of us. Heck, the stuff in this report is what I remember being taught in science class when I was in grade school. But the EPA would probably be shocked by this report, especially since they consider CO2 a pollutant. In fact, if I had to guess, they’ll probably be in complete denial over the truthfulness of this report:
CNS NEWS – Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant but a naturally occurring chemical compound that benefits plants and thus, the planet and its inhabitants, according to the second part of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change’s (NIPCC) “Climate Change Reconsidered II” series – a more than 1,000-page report released by the Heartland Institute on Wednesday.
“Carbon dioxide is an aerial fertilizer that provides many beneficial impacts,” said Craig Idso, one of the lead authors of the report, when CNSNews.com asked him to name the most salient finding of the 37 scientists from 12 countries who contributed to it.
“You can look at thousands of studies – real world data studies that have actually been conducted that demonstrate beyond any doubt that higher levels of CO2 are going to increase the productivity of plants,” Idso said.
“They’re real,” Idso said of the benefits of CO2. “They’re not imagined. They’re not projected. They’re real, and they’re occurring now.”
On December 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final regulation listing CO2 as one of the greenhouses gases that is considered a pollutant that “endangers public health.” The regulation is part of what the EPA says is required under the Clean Air Act.