CO2 Is Not a Pollutant and Is NOT Endangering the Planet

Speaking of over-regulation: We reported in yesterday’s HOTLINE the good news that the Trump Administration has ended the bogus “endangerment finding” – which asserts that greenhouse gases are air pollution.

Here is a summary of the many reasons that this onerous rule aimed at cutting off fossil fuel production is bad for the world’s health.

      1. Our slightly warming planet saves millions of lives – because cooler temperatures kill more people than warmer temperatures. One famous 2015 study examined 74 million deaths from 1985 to 2012 in the United States and around the world and found that 17 times more people die from extreme cold than warm temperatures.

      2. Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Clauser has confirmed, and Princeton emeritus professor physics William Happer and M.I.T atmospheric sciences emeritus professor Richard Lindzen have written that the carbon dioxide we exhale with every breath “is not a pollutant,” and “increasing CO2 concentrations will benefit the world.” More carbon dioxide increases the amount of food that plants produce – and will have a microscopic effect on temperatures.

      3. The war against fossil fuels won’t save the planet. Statistician Bjorn Lomborg has shown that even using the UN climate model, Biden’s Inflation Reduction would only mitigate the expected rise in global average temperature by 0.0009 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100.

      4. Since 1920, as the average global temperature has risen by 1.56 degrees Celsius and carbon dioxide emissions have increased and the world’s population has quadrupled, but average deaths per year from natural disasters have decreased by more than 90%.

      5. A 2024 National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration report concludes that “the historical Atlantic hurricane data at this stage do not provide compelling evidence for a substantial greenhouse warming-induced century-scale increase in:  frequency of tropical storms, hurricanes, or major hurricanes, or in the proportion of hurricanes that become major hurricanes.”

      6. Sea levels aren’t rising much, if at all. A 2024 EPA report states that the “absolute sea level has risen at an average rate of 0.06 inches per year from 1880 to 2013,” including a slightly increased rate since 1993 — a tiny “0.12 inches per year.”

Trump’s Energy Secretary Chris Wright correctly notes:

“Climate change is real, and it deserves attention. But it is not the greatest threat facing humanity. That distinction belongs to global energy poverty. As someone who values data, I know that improving the human condition depends on expanding access to reliable, affordable energy. Climate change is a challenge–not a catastrophe. But misguided policies based on fear rather than facts could truly endanger human well-being.”

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