Seen recent ads from Co2isgreen.net?

The message? Plants need carbon dioxide. So more of it is good. The rebuttal? Water is good, too. Try over-watering your plants.

CO2isgreen fronts for fossil fuel interests. Media running these ads should say that. (I represent renewable energy companies.)

See the Center for Media and Democracy's "Sourcewatch," at sourcewatch.org/index.php?titleCo2_is_Green. It links the site to Plants Need CO2 and H. Leighton Steward. He's a director at EOG Resources (formerly Enron Oil and Gas Company) and is board chair of the Institute for the Study of Earth and Man at Southern Methodist University. The institute is funded by Exxon Mobil, Shell Oil, Hunt Oil, Lyco Energy Corporation, and Five States Energy Corporation.

More CO2 is not good for 500 million humans worldwide. They'll be displaced by rising sea levels exacerbated because we are over-saturating the globe with greenhouse gases.

Methodists can't give enough on Sunday to compensate for this fratricide of our fellow man. It's not the "ethical" message that I, as 1959-60 President of the Montana Methodist Youth Fellowship, want from a university institute affiliated with my denomination. Methodist bishops should clarify this one or turn "money is green, so let's get more" into a parable.

Russ Doty,

Billings