Big Oil creates phony climate denial site, lies about it

Grist by Miles Grant | Sep. 4, 2009 (News Report)

A friend just alerted me to the website PlantsNeedCO2.org, which is running ads on NYTimes.com. From the site’s “about us” page:

Our mission is to educate the public on the positive effects of additional atmospheric CO2 and help prevent the inadvertent negative impact to human, plant and animal life if we reduce CO2. Plants Need CO2 is a 501 (c)(3) non profit corporation.

How do I say this? False.

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Subjects: Business, Politics, Sci/Tech, World
Topics: Oil and Gas, Money and Politics, Climate Change, Pollution
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Sep 8, 2009 - 11:09 PM PDT
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Sep 8, 2009 - 11:09 PM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - Sep. 8, 2009

A short nugget of discovery of oil industry disinformation, with a probable effect of worsening life on the planet.

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