Carbon dioxide isn't pollution, NewAtlas

Report says plug-in hybrids are almost as polluting as gas-powered cars

The article highlights a report from the European Federation for Transport and Environment (T&E) which purports to show that plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) pollute almost as much as internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles.

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A review of basic chemistry: carbon dioxide is not pollution. It's an essential trace gas, without which there would be no life on earth. No carbon dioxide, no plants. No plants, no animals. Hybrid engine cars emit a lot less actual pollution—carbon monoxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide, etc.—than internal combustion engine cars because they produce propulsion more efficiently. But leftists fudge the numbers to suit their agenda.

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Leftists don't like it when you don't stick with their narrative and their contrived definitions. Carbon dioxide makes up 0.04% of Earth's atmosphere and is critical to all plant life. Calling carbon dioxide "pollution" is perverse, yet here we are. Leftists pervert words and meanings to promote their fantasies.

The Leftist Lexicon highlights some words leftists have usurped to mean something entirely different.

I chose the image above from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which coincidentally, isn't actually a bulletin published by nuclear physicists. It's a leftist political organization masquerading as a scientific publication. They purposely edit (distort) the image to make it look like coal power plants are emitting a thick pall of dark smoke. Here's another, published by the AP, in an article about West Virginia challenging the EPA's unconstitutional Good Neighbor Plan that requires states to reduce ozone that crosses state lines, which the Supreme Court has stayed pending court decisions. Once again, they distort the image to look like dark clouds of smoke polluting the air.

Here's what the smokestack emissions of a modern U.S. coal plant actually looks like.

Those thick clouds are white clouds of water vapor, not dark clouds of smoke like in Victorian England. U.S. coal power plants have expensive scrubbers that extract most of the pollution from the emissions. Modern technology has done a remarkable job of reducing air pollution.

But that wasn't good enough for leftists. They've decided that the harmless, beneficial carbon dioxide released from burning fossil fuels is a pollutant, contrary to science.