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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