The environmental movement has developed a single-minded obsession with the supposed effects of carbon dioxide on the global climate. Rather than CO2 gas, however, the technologies that are now being proposed to mitigate this supposed problem might be the real cause of our coming environmental calamity. This is the GRTV Backgrounder on Global Research TV. For Transcript and Sources go to http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=6851

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recently declared carbon dioxide to be a dangerous air pollutant. Nature, however, suggests just the opposite. Hear the testimony – and see the results – of the man who breathed life into plants. 11-01-2009

The first person to stand up to any great evil is always the most courageous. To be the first one to call out any great injustice is to invite ridicule, scorn, even persecution. It is difficult to imagine today just how brave were the first slave owners to call for the abolition of slavery, the first men and women to advocate women's suffrage, the first activists to call for the end of Apartheid. In the end, their cause is recognized as just and these brave souls are lauded, often posthumously, as heroes. But in the beginning, no one wants to admit that they are a party, even unwittingly, to a great evil. The wildest injustices can be legitimized simply because they are popular. Today, just such a popular injustice exists. It has been infu...