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Senator James Inhofe Thinks Carbon Pollution Is A Good Thing
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3:41Now PlayingAverage carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere passed 400 parts per million globally for the first time last week. The Republican head of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee does not want you to worry about us passing that milestone, take a look at Senator James Inhofe from the Senate floor.
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Scientists may have recorded another unsettling milestone in the buildup of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere, but leave it to Oklahoma senator — and snowball aficionado — James Inhofe to find the bright side.
In a rambling broadside against the Obama administration's plans to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, Inhofe said climate "alarmists" are ignoring the positive things those emissions are doing for the world's plants.
"People don't realize you can't grow things without CO2," Inhofe, the Republican chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said on the chamber's floor Wednesday. "CO2 is a fertilizer. It's something you can't do without. No one ever talks about the benefits that people are inducing from that as a fertilizer." That buildup has led "to a greening of the planet and contributed to increasing agricultural productivity," he said.
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