"It's roughly the equivalent of explaining to a drowning person that you're not going to throw him a life preserver because water is a building block of life. Carbon dioxide is, in fact, among the most dangerous substances at work on the Earth; as it collects in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels, it is rapidly raising the Earth's temperature, melting its poles, and setting off endless rounds of flood and fire."
"The latest warning came this past week, from a global team of scientists who noted, in a journal paper, that "we may be approaching a perilous threshold, with rapidly dwindling opportunities to prevent dangerous and unmanageable climate outcomes." Indeed, recent weeks have produced predictions that a new El Niño is in the offing for later this year and, with it, the near certainty of new and dire temperature records."
Doug Burgum stated that CO2 was never a pollutant, noting humans exhale CO2 and plants benefit, and he has appeared in a coal cartoon on social media. The administration rescinded the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding that identified greenhouse gases as a risk to planetary health, a finding issued after the Supreme Court's Massachusetts v. EPA decision. Carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels is rapidly warming the planet, melting ice, and driving floods and fires. A global team of scientists warned of a perilous threshold with dwindling opportunities to avoid dangerous, unmanageable climate outcomes, and forecasts suggest an El Niño could produce record temperatures.
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