Everyone stop worrying. Climate change and carbon dioxide are good for us. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a Republican congresswoman from Georgia. During an hour-plus-long conversation this week with host Brian Glenn on the conservative Right Side Broadcasting Network, she confidently laid out some extremely scuzzy science to support her claim that climate change is benefiting us. Here is the exchange in its best form.
Greene: What do plants—okay, don’t say electrolytes, that’s not the answer, you may have been watching movies—what do plants actually crave?
Glenn: Sunlight.
Greene: Of course, but carbon! They need carbon. …it’s the life cycle. But [climate activists] want to kill carbon. They say if the Earth warms 1.5 degrees celsius, AOC says, the Earth is going to explode. But do you know when they’ve been tracking this? They’ve been tracking this since the 1800s.
We’ve already warmed one degree Celsius, and do you know what’s happened since then? Let me tell you: we’ve had more food grown since then, which feeds people. We’ve been producing fossil fuels, keeps people’s houses warm in the winter, that saves people’s lives. People die in the cold. This earth warming, and carbon, is actually healthy for us. It helps us to feed people, it keeps people alive.
The earth is more green than it was years and years ago, and that’s because of the earth warming, it’s because of carbon, because plants do need carbon. Their whole argument is not even scientific.
The hot mess should be broken down.
The Earth has warmed more than 1 degree Celsius since the Industrial Revolution. Marjorie, it's great stuff. The global scientific community has warned that the 1.5 degree mark is where the impacts of warming will become catastrophic. In terms of pure facts, the one degree measurement is technically correct, even though that message doesn't seem to have penetrated Greene's brain
In order to prove her point that carbon is good, she cherry-picks the worst arguments that could possibly be made. She ignores the fact that heat-related deaths are rising as climate change makes extreme heat much more common. Warming can help increase agricultural output in some areas, but it has also devastated it in others, and the future of growing food in agricultural powerhouses like California is in doubt due to the effects of climate change. Air pollution from fossil fuels kills millions of people every year, even though a home made of fossil fuels may keep someone warm.
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It is unsurprising that the man who once claimed that a space laser operated by a powerful Jewish family may have started the Camp Fire would make such a statement. MTG did not come up with this particular line of cockney. It has been argued that carbon dioxide is a good thing because it is natural. Kathleen Hartnett White, a former Trump Council of Environmental Quality nominee and fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, defended carbon dioxide as a plant food. The administration withdrew the nomination of Hartnett White due to her out of left field views on climate change. It's nice to know that these lies are gaining ground in Washington.
Even though right wingers may now admit that climate change is happening, they are still denying it. Maybe not taking scientific advice from someone who presented a meme about the Green New Deal last year is a bad idea.
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