Dr. William Happer: CO2 Is Essential—Not a Pollutant, But the Gas of Life

"More CO2 is good for the world... It's absurd to be trying to reduce CO2."

Dr. William Happer, one of the world's most pre-eminent physicists: "We're in a CO2 famine now... It's unbelievable that they've managed to turn this beneficial gas, a part of life, into a threat."

"They talk about carbon pollution. I can't imagine what they're talking about. We're made of carbon, and we breathe out two pounds of CO2 a day, each of us—that's 8 billion people."

"Many of them say, well, people are the real problem, it's not the CO2, we've got too many people, and really we can't have more than a billion people in the world."