What makes this “study” completely bogus is that they include CO2. Of course CO2 is not a pollutant. It harms no one to breath and is absolutely essential for all life on earth. It seems that the only way the study can show anyting negative is by including CO2 emissions. The only possible harm that anyone has ever attributed to CO2 is global warming–something that even the global warming pessimists admit we cannot have an impact on for a century or two, even with the dramatic cutbacks called for by the Kyoto Protocol. On the other hand the benefits of a CO2 enriched atmosphere are well documented–more vegitation, better crops, more food, longer growing season.
Oh yeah, but if we accept any of these benefits then an important excuse for centrally planning our economy and making over everyone’s life to conform with how Environmental Defense and the Sierra Club wants us to live vanishes.
