Undoing the Demonization of Carbon Dioxide

That, however, was the ‘endangerment finding’ that emerged from a U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2007: that greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act and that the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) must determine whether they pose a threat to public health. The endangerment finding, established under President Barack Obama in 2009, classified carbon dioxide, methane and four other greenhouse gases as a threat to public health and welfare.¹

However, the Trump administration, in its continued dismantling of the “global warming” agenda, just revoked the landmark ruling that served as the legal foundation for federal regulations under Obama and Biden to limit greenhouse gas emissions. CNBC calls it “a devastating blow to efforts to combat climate change.”

“This is about as big as it gets,” President Donald Trump countered at the White House with EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on February 12th, 2026. “Under the process just completed by the EPA, we are officially terminating the so-called endangerment finding.” Zeldin added:

No longer will automakers be pressured to shift their fleets towards electric vehicles.

Lee Zeldin, EPA Administrator, February 12, 2026, CNBC.com

This, of course, has sent climate activists, who rely on CO2 being demonized, into a frenzy.

CO2 – A Threat… or Lifesaver?

The ability for globalists to manufacture a crisis based on CO2 as a “threat” has been a scientific coup of the highest magnitude.²

In his critique of the prevailing “climate narrative”, nuclear physicist Dr. Wallace Manheimer refutes the claim that carbon dioxide is somehow a pollutant. On the contrary, CO2 is the primary carbon source for life on Earth, essential for plant life. Studies show that it increases vitamins and mineral output in plants as well as their medicinal properties. The more carbon dioxide, the greener the planet, the more food there is.

The emphasis on a false climate crisis is becoming a tragedy for modern civilization, which depends on reliable, economic, and environmentally viable energy. The windmills, solar panels and backup batteries have none of these qualities. This falsehood is pushed by a powerful lobby which Bjorn Lomborg has called a climate industrial complex, comprising some scientists, most media, industrialists, and legislators. It has somehow managed to convince many that CO2 in the atmosphere, a gas necessary for life on earth, one which we exhale with every breath, is an environmental poison. Multiple scientific theories and measurements show that there is no climate crisis. Radiation forcing calculations by both skeptics and believers show that the carbon dioxide radiation forcing is about 0.3% of the incident radiation, far less than other effects on climate. Over the period of human civilization, the temperature has oscillated between quite a few warm and cold periods, with many of the warm periods being warmer than today. During geological times, it and the carbon dioxide level have been all over the place with no correlation between them.

Dr. Wallace Manheimer, Journal of Sustainable Development, February 2015

In a paper for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, Dr. Indur Goklany, who has previously represented the United States on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), says that the rising level of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere “is currently net beneficial for both humanity and the biosphere generally”.

Carbon dioxide fertilizes plants, and emissions from fossil fuels have already had a hugely beneficial effect on crops, increasing yields by at least 10-15 per cent.

Dr Indur Goklany, October 12, 2015, paper: “Carbon Dioxide: the good news“

Physicist Freeman Dyson states:

…there are huge non-climate effects of carbon dioxide which are overwhelmingly favorable which are not taken into account. To me that’s the main issue–the Earth is actually growing greener..it’s increasingly agricultural yields, it’s increasing forests, it’s increasing all kinds of growth… That’s more important and more certain than the effects on climate.

tomnelson.blogspot.com, April 6, 2016

CO2 is Greening the Earth

A peer-reviewed study published in the journal Global Ecology and Conservation underscored that “global greening is an indisputable fact” and has accelerated over the past 20 years across over 55% of the globe.³

“Woody vegetation cover over sub-Saharan Africa increased by 8% over the past three decades…” concludes a study in Nature. “These results confirm global greening trends, thereby bringing into question widely held theories about declining terrestrial carbon balances and desert expansion.”⁴

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association reported a study in 2018 showing “Global plant growth surging alongside carbon dioxide.”⁵ NASA’s mapping shows “that the world is greener than it was in the early 1980s.”⁶ Boston University’s study found “significant greening of something between 25% and 50% of the Earth’s vegetated land.”⁷

Indeed, Antarctica was once covered with lush forests and thriving ecosystems, even palm trees. “Though scientists think the atmospheric carbon dioxide levels at the beginning of the Eocene period 55 million years ago were as high as 1000 parts per million, trumping today’s value near 400 parts per million,” writes Smithsonian Magazine, “they’ve not quite worked out what triggered this lurch.” Hm, curious, isn’t it? And yet, the planet didn’t burn up. So maybe more carbon dioxide is a good thing?

Says another peer-reviewed study: “The global leaf area index — the measure of the amount of leaf area relative to ground area — based on satellite observations has shown the world to be greening since the early 1980s.”⁸

Perhaps the biggest irony is that the 2019 paper published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment and taken up by NASA indicated greening actually slows global warming.⁹ “Vegetation models suggest that CO2 fertilization is the main driver of greening on the global scale, with other factors being notable at the regional scale. Modelling indicates that greening could mitigate global warming by increasing the carbon sink on land and altering biogeophysical processes, mainly evaporative cooling.”

Maybe there is no need after all for Bill Gates to spray chemicals into our skies to deflect the sun.

So, Why Demonize CO2?

Climate change activists are crying foul that Trump is in bed with the fossil fuel industry and that it’s “all” about money.

Of course, the same accusations are leveled against Alberta’s Premier Danielle Smith, whose province has long benefited from the oil industry (as has the rest of Canada, as a result). But these activists are the same people who protest on city streets made from fossil fuels, and whose many daily-use products are derived from oil.

Yes, there are emerging alternatives that societies need to consider that are not as destructive as solar and wind, such as hydrogen or nuclear for energy, Hemp to replace synthetics, and other technologies that could actually produce cheap, if not free energy (see Rethinking the Renewable Energy Thing). Increasingly, we are also finding ways to burn fossil fuels with less and less pollution, which is crucial.

But there is something darker about the demonization of CO2 that has completely gone over the heads of the climate-terrorized youth — a Marxist agenda.

Leading this agenda is none other than Canada’s new Prime Minister. ¹⁰ In his review of Mark Carney’s book, Value(s): Building a Better World for All, Canadian journalist Peter Foster observes:

Carney’s climate plan is much closer to the notion of Soviet central long-term planning… What Carney ultimately wants… is a technocratic dictatorship justified by climate alarmism.

National Post, Jun 05, 2021

This is only possible, of course, if you can foment a narrative that demonizes CO2 and convinces urbanites that cow farts are an existential threat. It’s laughable, on the one hand… but it’s playing out as a tragedy in real life as fear, carbon taxes, and inflation are the rotten fruits of these globalist schemes.

Carney is a key “Agenda Contributor” to the World Economic Forum and its “Corporate Stakeholderism,” a philosophy that merges capitalism and communism (without saying it out loud). It holds companies accountable to a broad range of stakeholders—not just shareholders—whose interests are affected by or can affect the organization. As Carney plainly stated, if they don’t play by the rules, they will be punished:

It’s precisely this neo-communist mindset, beholden to an elitist group that gathers each year at Davos, that Trump is now pushing against. Hence, Carney declared recently at the World Economic Forum gathering in Switzerland:

Today, I’ll talk about the rupture in the world order, the end of a nice story and the beginning of a brutal reality where geopolitics among the great powers is not subject to any constraints. But I also submit to you that other countries, particularly middle powers like Canada, are not powerless. They have the capacity to build a new order that embodies our values, like respect for human rights, sustainable development, solidarity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of states.

CBC News, Davos, Switzerland, January 20, 2026

The “rupture”, plainly, is that the United States is no longer going along with the globalist agenda that Mark Carney has had a direct hand in shaping as a central banker with the Bank of England and Bank of Canada, and as an finance advisor for the UK presidency of the COP26 United Nations Climate Change conference in Glasgow, and a UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance. “Sustainable development” is just a philosophy hatched by former Soviet Union leader Michel Gorbachev and UN advisor Maurice Strong. Both were committed to implementing a Marxist agenda at the international level using — you guessed it — the environment as a lever. Gorbachev predicted:

The threat of environmental crisis will be the international disaster key to unlock the New World Order. 

from ‘A Special Report: The Wildlands Project Unleashes Its War On Mankind’, by Marilyn Brannan, Associate Editor, Monetary & Economic Review, 1996, p.5 

That’s exactly the language of Carney, who has recently realigned Canada with Communist China. In a news conference after meeting with China’s President Xi and Premier Li, Carney was questioned by Bloomberg’s Brian Platt: “Yesterday, when you met with Premier Li, one of the things you said in the public remarks was, ‘This partnership — Canada and China — this new partnership sets us up well for the new world order.’ What did you mean by that? What is the new world order?” Carney replied in part:

…what this partnership [of nations] does is in areas, for example, of clean energy, conventional energy, agriculture, as we were just talking about, and financial services, which we’ve talked less about, but the evolution of the global financial system, the role of the Renminbi over time [China’s currency], the evolution of cross border payments… These are important elements of how the system’s going to work. 

Prime Minister Mark Carney, AP News, January 16, 2026, video

Much of what Carney is referring to is over the heads of average Canadians, who really have no idea that they just signed up to a neo-communist agenda when they voted for this “elbow’s up” globalist.¹¹ Foster continues:

Mark Carney draws inspiration from, among others, Marx, Engels and Lenin, but the agenda he promotes differs from Marxism in two key respects. First, the private sector is not to be expropriated but made a “partner” in reshaping the economy and society. Second, it does not make a promise to make the lives of ordinary people better, but worse. Carney’s Brave New World will be one of severely constrained choice, less flying, less meat, more inconvenience and more poverty: “Assets will be stranded, used gasoline powered cars will be unsaleable, inefficient properties will be unrentable,” he promises.

Peter Foster, National Post, Jun 05, 2021

Billionaire David Rockefeller pretty much said the quiet part out loud in his book, Memoirs:

For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum… believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as “internationalists” and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure—one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

Memoirs, p. 405, Random House Publishing Group

The Trump Administration, however, appears increasingly done with this globalist agenda and, for better or worse, is implementing a decidedly nationalist strategy. Under Trump’s recent term, the U.S. has withdrawn from numerous global agencies including the World Health Organization, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Climate Agreement, and has repealed key tax subsidies for solar, wind and EVs.

The rupture has begun. And carbon dioxide can breathe again.

1. cf. CNBC.com[↩]
2. see Hot Air Behind the Wind for the counter-science from climatologists[↩]
3. The global greening continues despite increased drought stress since 2000, January 2024[↩]
4. June 11, 2018, nature.com[↩]
5. noaa.gov[↩]
6. earthobservatory.nasa.gov[↩]
7. April 25, 2016, BBC[↩]
8. cf. Peer Reviewed Study: Carbon emissions are greening the planet [↩]
9. nasa.gov[↩]
10. cf. Carney… Finishing Trudeau’s Carnage[↩]
11. Carney has not lived in Canada for years, and appeared at the last moment to run in the Federal Election. He played on Canadians’ love of hockey, using the analogy of the defensive position “elbows up” against Donald Trump’s aggressive tariffs. The Progressive Conservative Party, which seemed poised to win the election until this virtual outsider appeared, lost to Carney, who formed a minority government.[↩]