Ads Backed by Fossil-Fuel Interests Argue 'CO2 Is Green'

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Ads Backed by Fossil-Fuel Interests Argue 'CO2 Is Green'

By ANNE C. MULKERN of Greenwire
Published: July 14, 2010

A group with ties to the fossil fuel industry launched a new ad campaign today pushing the idea that carbon dioxide isn't an environmental pollutant.

The organization "C02 is Green" funded a half-page advertisement in The Washington Post urging people to call their senators and seek a vote against "the president's cap-and-trade bill that will increase your cost of living and not change the climate.

"The bill is based on the false premise that man-made CO2 is a major cause of climate change," the ad says. "Real, empirical evidence indicates it is not."

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CO2 is Green spokesman H. Leighton Steward sits on the board of directors of EOG Resources Inc., an oil and natural gas development company. He also is an honorary director at the industry trade group American Petroleum Institute, according to a biography on EOG's website.

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Sounds like Reagan's old talking point: "trees cause more pollution than automobiles do"

[Deep13]

1. These people should be held responsible...

...for the damage their lies cause.

340 p.p.m. of CO2 is "green." Nearly 390 ppm is a global disaster.

[jberryhill]

2. You can't say "greenhouse gas" without "green", after all /nt

[Birthmark]

3. Super!

I fill a room with CO2...and they can go in and demonstrate how harmless CO2 is.

Everybody's happy!

[Moochy]

4. now thats just silly.

co2 is transparent.

[Catshrink]

5. And it's natural.

And people consume it everyday in their soda pop and beer. I don't know why people get all worked up over a natural product. Sheesh.