Steve Forbes brings the stupid to a grateful Fox nation:
The amazing thing is, if you're worried about carbon dioxide, even though we can't live without it, output of carbon dioxide is now at levels that it was in the early 1990s.
Well, to continue forward with Forbes's idiotic logic, if the fact that we can't live without carbon dioxide is at all relevant to climate science, then shouldn't he be scared to death if carbon dioxide levels really are now at 1990s levels? I mean, what if we're headed towards a carbon dioxide-less apocalypse. Scary!
Of course, Forbes isn't worried about a world without carbon dioxide. What he really wants is more coal. And it's mighty curious that he would use the fact that U.S. emissions levels are at 1990s levels as an argument to use more coal, because the main reason that's true is that we're now using less coal. Using more coal would reverse the trend.
Moreover the fact remains that we're still the world's second-leading producer of greenhouse gas emissions. Moreover, global emissions, which are what ultimately matter, are way above 1990s levels. And carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are higher than they've ever been.
In other words, no matter what Steve Forbes says, the people who are worried are right to be worried.