Science & Public Policy Institute

Avoiding Carbon Myopia: 3 Considerations for Policy Makers Concerning Man-Made Carbon Dioxide

Written by Willie Soon & David Legates
Tuesday, 06 April 2010 12:26

In December 2009, lawmakers and representatives from around the world, along with scientists, numerous journalists, and various celebrities flew to Copenhagen, Denmark. For the most part, their goal was to promote a regulatory scheme aimed at controlling human carbon emissions by declaring the element a tradable commodity and establishing laws and regulations to govern the trade.

The proposed regulations were premised on the flawed notion, articulated by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),1 that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations will change climate dramatically and thereby cause major ecological and economic damage….([1] Full Report in PDF form)

See also:

PowerPoint slides from Dr. Willie Soon’s Congressional staff briefing held in DC on April 13, 2010

Written by Dr. Willie Soon
Friday, 16 April 2010 09:35

For the Full Report [slide show] in PDF Form, please [2] click here.

The paper upon which the briefing was based can be found here:  [3] http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/reprint/carbon_myopia.html

Abstract:

In 2007 the Supreme Court commented that “greenhouse gases fit well within the Clean Air Act’s capacious definition of air pollutant.” In this presentation, Dr. Soon will discuss why atmospheric CO2 is not an “air pollutant”. Three points of discussion will be:

1. CO2 is not an air pollutant,
2. Ocean acidification claims are exaggerated,
3. The magical CO2 control knob idea “to save the world” is essentially dead.