{"id":9892,"date":"2013-02-28T16:30:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T00:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9892"},"modified":"2013-02-28T15:52:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T23:52:40","slug":"foxnewscom-carbon-dioxide-is-a-pollutant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9892","title":{"rendered":"FoxNews.Com: ‘Carbon Dioxide is a Pollutant’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow. You likely won’t see this<\/i> covered on the actual Fox “News” Channel — at least not in these words — but somehow it made it onto their website yesterday<\/a> [emphasis added<\/i>]…<\/p>\n

New technological advances may make it possible in the near future to engineer a coal-powered car so clean that it produces nearly no polluting emissions, including carbon dioxide<\/b>, experts tell FoxNews.com.<\/div>\n

“Hey, they say carbon dioxide is a pollutant in the first paragraph!,” snarks the sharp-eyed and occasional BRAD BLOG contributor, D.R. Tucker<\/a>. “Who let that one go through?!”<\/p>\n

Who indeed?! After years of deriding the fact that carbon dioxide is a pollutant — “Hey, look! I just breathed out! I’m a polluter!” — Fox just admitted to what actual scientists and people who know stuff have been saying for years, even though the Bush Administration, way back when, spent years purposely not<\/i> opening an email from their own EPA<\/a> because they knew it contained the finding that, as FoxNews.com just admitted, carbon dioxide is a pollutant!<\/p>\n

As Peter Sinclair has mocked the denialists, while debunking their silly notion<\/a> that CO2, even too much of it, is merely “plant food”: “Plants use CO2. Therefore, more CO2 is good. It’s one of the hardy perennials of climate denialism.”<\/p>\n

The rest of the Fox article goes on to describe the developing technology for “clean coal-powered cars.” We can’t speak to the feasibility of the technology, but, if it’s accurately described by Fox (how could it not be?!) it sounds quite interesting. Reportedly, it combines pulverized coal with iron-oxide pellets to create an “oxidation” process that produces heat “in a small chamber from which pollutants cannot escape.”<\/p>\n

“The only waste product would be water and solid coal ash — no greenhouse gases,” the article by Gene J. Koprowski claims, adding that the same technology could possibly be used “as a replacement for old-fashioned coal power plants, which spew greenhouse gases.”<\/p>\n

Oh, my! They just did it again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow. You likely won’t see this covered on the actual Fox “News” Channel — at least not in these words — but somehow it made it onto their website yesterday [emphasis added]… New technological advances may make it possible in the near future to engineer a coal-powered car so clean that it produces nearly no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[543,499,200,14,188],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-coal","category-environment","category-fox-news","category-mainstream-media-failure","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9892"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}