Carbon Dioxide as the Basis of Life: Challenging Green New Deal Climate Claims

On St. Patrick’s Day, Kim Monson welcomed Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace who now challenges the climate alarmism movement. Moore explained why carbon dioxide is essential to all life on Earth and called efforts to achieve net-zero emissions fundamentally misguided. The episode also featured discussions on Colorado Republican politics, the Biden administration’s use of auto-pens for official documents, and a celebration of the Marine Corps’ 250th birthday. Greenpeace Co-Founder Exposes Climate Lies Start listening at 75:32 – Hour 2 Patrick Moore, author of Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom, explained that CO2 had fallen to dangerously low levels before humans began burning fossil fuels. He noted that at 180 parts per million during the last ice age, the planet was only 30 parts per million above the level where plant life would cease to exist. Greenhouse growers deliberately increase CO2 levels to two or three times atmospheric levels to boost plant productivity, demonstrating its beneficial nature for life. “There is no possibility that we could reduce CO2 to zero.”Patrick Moore Moore criticized the proposal to capture CO2 and pump it underground as wasteful and counterproductive, requiring massive subsidies that could never be economically justified. He praised the Trump administration and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for working to dismantle the Green New Deal, calling it a policy that would destroy human civilization if fully implemented. The environmentalist explained that most carbon has been captured over geological time in limestone formations and fossil fuels. When burned, fossil fuels simply return CO2 to the atmosphere where it originated, completing a natural cycle that sustains life. He noted that India, China, and Russia have not accepted the climate alarmism narrative that has taken hold in Western nations. “Guilt is a very powerful motivator.”Patrick Moore Colorado GOP Chair Race Heats Up Start listening at 16:19 – Hour 1 Darcy Schoening, candidate for Colorado GOP Chair and Director of Special Initiatives with the state party, outlined her vision for Republican success in Colorado. She emphasized the need to close Republican primaries so that party members alone select their nominees, rather than allowing unaffiliated voters to participate in choosing Republican candidates. Schoening highlighted her Build Our Benches initiative, which has already secured approximately $200,000 in donor commitments for school board races in 2025. She argued that protecting children from transgender surgeries, woke agendas in schools, and preserving Second Amendment rights are values that unite Republicans across the state. “We have to close our primaries.”Darcy Schoening The state central committee will vote on the chair position on March 29th in Colorado Springs, with approximately 480 members eligible to vote. Schoening noted that the current law requires 75 percent approval to opt out of open primaries, a threshold she considers unconstitutional. Biden Auto-Pen Scandal Emerges Start listening at 32:15 – Hour 1 Brian Joondeph discussed his recent American Thinker article about Democrats’ behavior during Trump’s Congressional address, noting they refused to stand for any positive news about America, including honoring a 13-year-old boy with brain cancer who was made an honorary Secret Service agent. Joondeph broke news about President Bi...