The Koch brothers, Art Pope’s Locke Foundation, Americans for Prosperity, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Exxon, BP, Massey Coal and many others understand that if people took global warming seriously as a condition that will kill their children, then government regulation (or just regulating CO2 production) would gain new popularity – and the freedom of business to ignore its social costs would be impaired. Hence the mega-millions spent to discredit the notion that global warming is happening, is caused by human activity, or is something for paid-off politicians to worry about. Read this op-ed in the Washington Post and see if you agree. After that, read Facing South’s post about the efforts of U.S. Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) to gut EPA in order to help his energy industry patrons.
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To: Democracy NC do you understand that this is an unproven theory that CO2 is causing climate change? Climate change is a natural process and CO2 is not a pollutant. Please read the following article from a noted Princeton Physicist.
http://www.firstthings.com/article/2011/05/the-truth-about-greenhouse-gases
This is a way for the government to control our energy use and to provide the flimsy basis for raising our taxes. It’s all a big fraud being perpetuated by our government and the climate scientists who are benefitting from the generous research grants that our government lavishes upon them. We have vast quatntities of coal, oil and natural gas and the government expects us to reduce useage of them for a mythical, unproven theory that CO2 is a pollutant. CO2 is not a pollutant.