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Guess what chaps, this is alarmist bullshit.
CO2 is not a fucking pollutant. it is the very stuff of life. Without it there would be no plant life. And without plant life there would be no animal life. The more CO2 there is the more plants there will be to absorb it. Rebranding CO2 it as "nasty poisonous carbon" is a marketing move designed to sell taxation to the guilt-ridden developed world whilst simutaneously preventing the developing world from actually developing. The Earth is an ecosystem and we as humans are a tiny stupid pointless insignificant blip on that ecosystem. Geologically we are less than a microsecond. It is nothing but hubris and self-obsession to assume we have a cat in hell's chance of affecting the climate of this planet in any meaningful way. The earth will look after itself, and if we remain viable as a species we will adapt. Coal, oil, gas, it's all exactly the same natural fuel as wood, just a hell of a lot older. We are not creating "carbon". At a simple level we are merely moving CO2 it from under the sea to above it. Releasing what was once a tree into the ecosystem so that it may be a new tree. It doesn't matter how much coal the developing world burns. Or oil. Because we all know for a fact how much oil and coal and gas humans are going to use. All of it. Every last drop. And it won't make the slightest bit of difference to mother earth. We, like King Canute, are conceited in the extreme to think that the changing the climate has ever been something in our power, or indeed that preventing climate change will ever be.
Now cheer up.