Nowadays, in an age of rising population and scarcities of food and water in some regions, it’s a wonder that humanitarians aren’t clamoring for more atmospheric carbon dioxide.

No, it’s not The Onion. It’s the Wall Street Journal editorial page, which nowadays is much the same thing.

Once again, the country’s leading financial newspaper is recycling long-debunked myths from disinformers with PhDs posing as climate scientists - in this case, Harrison H. Schmitt and William Happer, ‘In Defense of Carbon Dioxide: The demonized chemical compound is a boon to plant life and has little correlation with global temperature.