Kathleen Hartnett White
Credit: Texas Public Policy Foundation
President Donald Trump nominated Kathleen Hartnett White, a fringe player in the climate debate who promotes the idea that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is good for humanity, to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality on Thursday.
Hartnett White, a senior fellow and director of the Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment at the fossil-fuel funded Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), has questioned the scientific consensus that human activities are the major driver of catastrophic climate change. She has described efforts to combat climate change as primarily an attack on the fossil fuel industry.
Hartnett White’s hard-line position that carbon dioxide emissions can be goodrepresents an extreme stance, even among Republicans who refuse to concede the role of humans in climate change. The best science indicates not only that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for global warming, but that global warming is widely expected to have catastrophic effects for humanity if it is not curbed.
If confirmed by the Senate, Hartnett White would join […]
CO2 is plant food. In greenhouses they raise the concentration to 1200 ppm.
Yes, it is plant food. That isn’t the issue Steve. The issue is whether the relatively rapid increase in CO2 concentration during the last 150 years or so in the planetary ecosphere (verses a controlled greenhouse environment) is causing major changes in weather (rainfall patterns and temperature extremes), ocean acidification, coral bleaching, sea level rise, and marine species depletion. These are the concern Steve.