Benefits of CO2 – Feel free to exhale

Global warming campaigners aren’t very good at being green.

First, there’s the bird and bat chopping wind turbines radical Greens are so proud of, then there’s the lifeless fields covered over by solar panel silicon, and finally, let’s not forget their insistence that we generate electricity by grinding trees into pellets and burn them up as “renewable” biomass.

Then there’s their demonization of CO2, the gas you just exhaled.

CO2 is the gas of life. Plants are green because they use chlorophyll to convert CO2 and water into glucose and oxygen. That’s where food comes from.

CFACT senior policy analyst Bonner Cohen posted a thoughtful meditation on the benefits of CO2 at CFACT.org:

What if manmade CO2 isn’t the villain deep-thinking elites say it is? What if rising levels of atmospheric CO2 are instead fighting the scourge of malnutrition in the world’s poorest regions? A new White Paper, “What Rising CO2 Means for Global Food Security,” published by the CO2 Coalition points out that global food security is one of the most pressing problems facing the planet’s growing population…

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