Carbon dioxide is not "soot." It is a colorless gas.
3/15/11, "ATI Says 'Stop Calling It Carbon'," ATI press release
"After an editorial in today's Wall Street Journal titled "Carbon and Democracy" that confuses casual observers about exactly what is alleged greenhouse gas pollution and what isn't, American Tradition Institute executive director Paul Chesser today is calling attention to
- misleading terms in the global warming debate.
- to create an image of black particulates emitting from smokestacks, when in fact
- colorless, odorless and harmless gas."
- "As black carbon soot."
- Carbon itself is not a pollutant.”
There is neither the need to abbreviate carbon dioxide to carbon; and the exercise of abbreviation renders it inaccurate. A bald-faced, quite deliberate lie.Whether it's in polls or in the news media, identifying "carbon" as a contributor to global warming simply because it conjures a polluting image is deceptive and wrong. "I call upon everyone in the media -- including my friends in the conservative/libertarian movement -- to get your terms straight," said Chesser, who admits he has been guilty of the same transgression in the past. "The government wants limits on carbon dioxide, which they want you to believe causes global warming.
For if carbon dioxide can be called 'carbon pollution,' in this or any other universe, in this or any other reality, well then rain has to be called "hydrogen pollution."
The reason the term is used by (Australian Prime Minister Julia) Gillard is an exercise of quite deliberate despicable dishonesty. It is the modern political form of those subliminal advertisements that are banned. To suggest that it is about stopping dirty bits of grit -- the very real carbon pollution of yesterday's coal-burning home fires which gave London its sooty smog and killed thousands every year.
"The real carbon pollution which no longer exists in modern developed economies, mostly precisely because of clean coal-fired power stations. And which does exist -- and kills -- in developing and third-world countries, denied centralised power generation."
- So tell the story right and leave the
- imagery of 'black carbon soot' out of it.""
via Tom Nelson
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