State legislator says global warming is good for us and our crops

From my own back­yard: Larry Pow­ell, a Repub­li­can state leg­is­la­tor from West­ern Kansas, has asserted that increased CO2 lev­els will make crops flour­ish. He cites a study that says that, “atmos­pheric CO2 enrich­ment will boost world agri­cul­tural out­put by about 50 per­cent.” They don’t deny global warm­ing any­more, instead they insist that it is good for us. Here is the link to the Lawrence Journal-World arti­cle. The com­ments are actu­ally much more inter­est­ing than the idi­otic asser­tions in the arti­cle itself.