Friday, June 29, 2012

Texas State Climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon "calling CO2 a pollutant is absurd in the ordinary meaning of the word pollutant"

Why EPA Regulating Greenhouse Gases Is Absurd…And Why It Doesn’t Matter | Climate Abyss | a Chron.com blog

See, to you and me, an air pollutant is something that doesn’t belong there.  But the CAA is extremely broad in its definition of a pollutant.  For starters, it includes just about anything that can be emitted into the atmosphere.  So while calling CO2 a pollutant is absurd in the ordinary meaning of the word pollutant, the CAA doesn’t use the word’s ordinary meaning. 

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