Northern Illinois Patriots

 After the global warming alarm was exposed as a hoax, climate change advocates were forced to come up with the new word to scare us into pouring billions of dollars into projects them deemed worthy.

 Our atmosphere is comprised of approximately 80% nitrogen and 20% oxygen. Carbon dioxide represents 0.04% of our atmosphere. Carbon dioxide in not a pollutant; it is in fact a nutrient necessary for growth of plant life. Rather than report the facts alarmists would rather enflame emotions. Of the total greenhouse gasses emitted, only 0.3% can be attributed to man. Approximately 99.7% of greenhouse gasses are due to natural causes (non-manmade). Of the 186 billion tons of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere annually, on 6 billion tons are from humans.

 To borrow an old expression, “Correlation does not mean causation”. Carbon dioxide levels have been steadily rising for the past 18,000 years. If there is an increase in temperature, it is not the increase in carbon dioxide that is raising the temperature; it is the increase in temperature that is raising the carbon dioxide levels. As we have emerged from the most recent ice age, more land mass has become exposed. This increased exposure leads to more vegetation, more insects, and more animal life. A natural byproduct of this increase in life is an increase in carbon dioxide.

 We must be good stewards of out planet and minimize the impact we will have on future generations. But we must not allow self-proclaimed guardians of the earth dictate how we should lead our lives. Based on their luxury Cancun vacation they have turned ecocide into Chic-O-Cide.