pointing out the obvious

I am too exhausted to produce a video factchecking Lucy's BS... so here is this fact check: "CO₂ is not a pollutant" Let's start with the science Lucy has no background in: The sun heats the Earth's surface with shortwave radiation. The Earth then radiates that energy back toward space as longwave infrared radiation. CO₂ molecules absorb that outgoing infrared energy, specifically at the 15-micrometer wavelength band, and re-emit it in all directions, including back toward the surface. This traps heat that would otherwise escape to space. More CO₂ means more energy trapped. More energy trapped means higher temperatures. Higher temperatures mean stronger heat waves, worse droughts, more intense storms, accelerated ice melt, and rising seas. This is not theory. John Tyndall measured CO₂'s heat-trapping properties in a laboratory in 1859. Svante Arrhenius calculated the warming effect of doubling atmospheric CO₂ in 1896. Every satellite observation of Earth's outgoing radiation since the 1970s has confirmed that CO₂ is absorbing exactly the wavelengths the physics predicts. You can literally see the "bite" CO₂ takes out of Earth's outgoing energy spectrum. It is directly measurable. It is not debatable. Atmospheric CO₂ is now over 420 parts per million, the highest level in at least 800,000 years of ice core records, and likely the highest in 3 million years. The last time concentrations were this high, sea levels were 50-80 feet higher than today. Yes, plants need CO₂. Water is also essential for life and it still causes floods. A substance can be necessary in one quantity and dangerous in another. That's not a contradiction. That's chemistry. Under the Clean Air Act, any airborne substance that endangers public health and welfare is a pollutant. The Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that CO₂ qualifies and ordered the EPA to evaluate the science. The EPA spent two years doing exactly that - with NASA, NOAA, and reviewers from multiple federal agencies. The conclusion: CO₂ and other greenhouse gases endanger human health. That was 2009. The science has only gotten stronger since. In 2025, the National Academies of Sciences said the harm is "beyond scientific dispute." "Made our lives more expensive" — The repeal raises gas prices. 25¢/gal by 2035. 76¢/gal by 2050. That's from the administration's own Annual Energy Outlook. The "overreach" was saving you money at the pump. "Helps everyone" — 58,000 early deaths. 37 million asthma attacks. Up to $4.2 trillion in climate damage by 2055. Per the Environmental Defense Fund, using the EPA's own modeling tools. "Government overreach" — It was the EPA following a direct Supreme Court order to review the science. They did. The science was overwhelming. Every court that has reviewed the Finding has upheld it. "Common sense" — The repeal was justified by a secret report from 5 hand-picked climate skeptics who met 18 times in secret. A federal court ruled it was produced illegally. 85+ scientists rebutted it. The DOE's own reviewers called it "misleading," "inaccurate," and "cherry picked." The EPA finalized the repeal anyway. Lucy has no scientific background whatsoever. She is a reality TV personality confidently telling millions of people that a gas with directly measurable heat-trapping properties, confirmed by 166 years of laboratory and satellite observations, isn't a pollutant. That's not common sense. That's misinformation from someone who has never been asked to show her work. "CO₂ is not a pollutant" - The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in 2007 that it is under the Clean Air Act. That's not a narrative. That's law. "Government overreach that made our lives more expensive" - The EPA's clean vehicle standards saved Americans thousands per year in fuel costs. The repeal raises gas prices 25¢/gal by 2035 and 76¢/gal by 2050. That's from the administration's own Annual Energy Outlook. The "overreach" was saving you money. "Helps everyone" - The Environmental Defense Fund's analysis, using the EPA's own modeling tools, shows this repeal will cause up to 58,000 premature deaths, 37 million additional asthma attacks, and up to $4.2 trillion in climate damage by 2055. It will cost Americans up to $1.4 trillion more at the pump. "Greedy fossil fuel companies aren't plotting to pollute" - The repeal was justified by a secret report from 5 hand-picked climate skeptics, most with fossil fuel industry ties, who met 18 times in secret. A federal court ruled the report was produced illegally. The EPA finalized the repeal 13 days later. Lucy has absolutely no scientific background to be posting about atmospheric physics or climate policy. None. She's a reality TV personality from Breaking Greenville repeating fossil fuel industry talking points and calling it common sense. CO₂ has been a measurable greenhouse gas since 1859. This isn't new. This isn't controversial. This is undergraduate-level science that she has never studied.