Bryan Walsh of TIME is one of those writers who likes to make silly claims about global warming. So it should be no surprise that his latest article lauds trespassing protesters for their efforts to fight a new coal-fired power plant:

The activists who had formed the barrier to the construction site were arrested and charged with trespassing, and they eventually paid $400 each in fines. That’s nothing, of course, compared with the punishment the Dominion plant will inflict on the environment. If completed, the plant will emit 5.3 million tons of CO2 a year into the atmosphere, roughly the equivalent of putting a million more cars on the road. [Emphasis added.]

Punishment? From a naturally occurring substance that we produce every time we breathe? Perhaps Walsh needs to read Roy Spencer?s Climate Confusion.