New EPA Advisory Board Member Believes Burning Fossil Fuels Is Good For Earth

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“Carbon dioxide makes things grow. Plants love this stuff,” John Christy has said.

The newest member of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board is a climate change skeptic whose research has been debunked and who believes that burning fossil fuels is actually beneficial.

There’s a benefit, not a cost, to producing energy from carbon,” John Christy, an atmospheric science professor at the University of Alabama in Hunstville, told E&E (Energy and Environment) News.

He didn’t elaborate, but he once told The Guardian: “Carbon dioxide makes things grow. Plants love this stuff. It creates more food. There is absolutely no question that carbon energy provides… longer and better lives.”

View the complete February 3 article by Mary Papenfuss on the Huffington Post website here.