The latest misuse of statistics is that the rise in CO2 levels is good for plants. Somehow, I am sure that while the statistics used to prove this by an economist for the coal industry are true, they are also probably invalid in other ways because statistics can always be manipulated by assumptions that are not valid. Before you know whether a statistic is valid, you need to know if the assumptions are valid. This is why I hate ceteris paribus analysis.
Never-the-less, it means the climate change debate will not go into a positive direction until the baby boomers are dead. For a generation that benefited from the Clean Air and Water Act (and I recall just how bad industry could be before that Act of Congress), it is amazing to me how many baby boomers are climate change deniers and see no reason to curb CO2 emissions at all. This statistical "finding" will not help matters.
Link to WashPo article that alerted me to this
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