Thursday, August 11, 2011

Greenhouse Gasses and Global Warming are good for you (and pandas)!

According to an ALEC seminar Rep Michelle Litjens recently attended...


Wisconsin legislators like Rep. Michelle Litjens, R-Oshkosh, attended the ALEC “Warming Up to Climate Change: The Many Benefits of Increased Atmospheric CO2” workshop, which informed us that plants use carbon dioxide for food, therefore, according to panelist Craig D. Idso, we “should let CO2 rise unrestricted, without government intervention” so CO2 can work its magic. 
Idso is founder and former chair of the ExxonMobil-funded Center for Study of Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change, and informed legislators that “CO2 is definitely not a pollutant.” He spoke glowingly of the “CO2-enriched world of the future,” and provided a series of graphs and data that, when viewed in isolation, might appear legitimate. 
Read more: http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/article_5ed96c3b-a5f3-5edb-9abf-03c60692b671.html#ixzz1UkM8QPAt