Our Atmosphere Is Starved Of CO2

Home › Groups › aus.invest › Our Atmosphere Is Starved Of CO2

Number of messages in the thread: 2

1. Date: 2008-11-26 23:57:14
Subject: Our Atmosphere Is Starved Of CO2
From: "bnzoo" <b...@...com> Search message by this author

CO2? Bring it on!

25 Nov 2008

Carbon dioxide is not an air pollutant. It is plant food. All life on Earth
depends on it. It is natural. It forms the bubbles in bread, champagne, and
Coca-Cola. You breathe it out, and plants breathe it in.

The Earth contains a lot of CO2, but the atmosphere contains so little that
the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) rightly
calls CO2 a "trace gas".

A scientific mystery is why the air does not hold more CO2 than it does.
Half a billion years ago, there was almost 20 times today's CO2
concentration.

Most farmers would prefer to grow crops under much-higher concentrations of
CO2 than today's 385 parts per million-less than 1/25 of 1 percent of the
atmosphere. To feed the world, low CO2 concentration is not such a great
idea. High concentrations are better, and they cause no harm. Experiments
have shown that even delicate plants such as orchids thrive at CO2
concentrations of 10,000 ppm.

That is why U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia has declared that if
CO2 is to be labeled an "air pollutant", then so must Frisbees and
flatulence.

http://jennifermarohasy.com/blog/

Warmest Regards

Bonzo

Show messages with headings

2. Date: 2008-11-27 00:12:14
Subject: Re: Our Atmosphere Is Starved Of CO2
From: Fellatio Drunkerton <f...@d...com> Search message by this author

On 26 Nov 2008, boozn wrote:

>
> The Earth contains a lot of CO2, but the atmosphere contains so little
> that the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
> (IPCC) rightly calls CO2 a "trace gas".
>

Unlike the way you gas up this newsgroup. Definitely not
"trace" at all there, no sirree bob.

Show messages with headings