Carbon Dioxide is not a pollutant..

Many times in the past few months media outlets like the ABC in Australia have been promoting that Carbon Dioxide is a pollutant and nothing is further from the truth. The green hysteria has manipulated that outcome to such a degree that people are starting to believe this obvious lie.

The culprit is actually carbon monoxide, that is a pollutant..

From Nick Minchin’s latest press release:

Shadow Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Senator Nick Minchin today in Senate Estimates told the ABC that it was factually incorrect for its on-air presenters to describe carbon dioxide as a pollutant, which was at odds with the Rudd Government’s own official list of air pollutants.

Senator Minchin alerted ABC managing director Mark Scott to the fact that the Government’s own list of air pollutants names carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen dioxide, ozone particles and sulphur dioxide, but not carbon dioxide…

Senator Minchin said based on the Government’s own documentation, carbon dioxide was not an air pollutant and therefore it was factually wrong and “grossly misleading” for the ABC to describe it as such in reporting and commenting on the current Australian debate.

Mr Scott agreed that carbon dioxide was “a gas vital to life” and acknowledged that describing it as a pollutant might not be consistent with the Government list of air pollutants Senator Minchin referred to.

Mark, you know carbon dioxide is not a “pollutant”, and that ABC staff who describe it as such so are merely echoing - if not endorsing - the crudest and most deceitful Government spin. Now, can you get your staff to stop it? To say something both untrue and biased must surely be against the ABC charter.
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Solar Energy, Batteries and Wind Generation.

Gone are the days when you could leave the tap running, the fan on all day or even run the air conditioner without any conscience.
I suppose to some degree that the major factor is really money but I think guilt comes into it as well. I think everyone is really conscious about the size of the footprint they leave on the planet. Gone are those days where we gave no consideration of any affect that our behaviour causes.

We are continually faced with ongoing decisions regarding energy use. It does get a little too much but it has been ingrained into us that maybe we should make an extra effort to ensure that our kids do not inhabit a planet that we have neglected. Yea, I know it's the guilt factor.

Surprisingly enough, everyone wants to make an effort, any effort for the cause.

I was surprised when a mate on mine showed me his solar pool heater that he had built himself out of a timber frame, some tubing and a bit of sweat. It actually kept his pool temperature at a lovely 18 degrees which isn't bad considering he use to pay for the power to heat it every month and now got that same result for nothing, apart from the cost of the hardware ofcourse. About 200 dollars.

I was really stunned. It looked great and professionally done. He said he would recoup his costs in a couple of months and this system he said would last for least ten years without any maintenance.

It's always seems that someone else always does what you know you should do. I asked him where he got the idea from and the information. Planning this type of project does not come out of thin air. You have to know what you're doing.

He explained that he saw this site and it supplied him with all the information he needed. He used that information and made it work.

It just annoys me when they can just do it and think nothing of it.