claim: Although it has some very important and beneficial effects, CO2 meets the legal and encyclopedic definitions of a "pollutant", and human CO2 emissions pose a threat to public health and welfare.
evidences.evidence_id: Climate change and agriculture:27
evidences.article: Climate change and agriculture
evidences.evidence: More favourable effects on yield tend to depend to a large extent on realization of the potentially beneficial effects of carbon dioxide on crop growth and increase of efficiency in water use.
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS REFUTES
evidences.evidence_id: Emissions trading:60
evidences.article: Emissions trading
evidences.evidence: On April 17, 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) formally announced that it had found that greenhouse gas (GHG) poses a threat to public health and the environment (EPA 2009a).
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Ocean acidification:83
evidences.article: Ocean acidification
evidences.evidence: Although the natural absorption of CO 2 by the world's oceans helps mitigate the climatic effects of anthropogenic emissions of CO 2, it is believed that the resulting decrease in pH will have negative consequences, primarily for oceanic calcifying organisms.
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Scientific consensus on climate change:651
evidences.article: Scientific consensus on climate change
evidences.evidence: It is anticipated that continuing changes to the climate will have serious negative impacts on public, animal and ecosystem health due to extreme weather events, changing disease transmission dynamics, emerging and re-emerging diseases, and alterations to habitat and ecological systems that are essential to wildlife conservation.
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Scientific consensus on climate change:688
evidences.article: Scientific consensus on climate change
evidences.evidence: American Public Health Association Policy Statement Addressing the Urgent Threat of Global Climate Change to Public Health and the Environment, 2007, archived from the original on 2009-12-31 "The long-term threat of global climate change to global health is extremely serious and the fourth IPCC report and other scientific literature demonstrate convincingly that anthropogenic GHG emissions are primarily responsible for this threat….US policy makers should immediately take necessary steps to reduce US emissions of GHGs, including carbon dioxide, to avert dangerous climate change."
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS