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Originally Posted by Larry Gude  ...it is and psychotic freaks like Al Gore and his anti capitalism friends and supporters have succeed in making CO2, an essential ingredient in plant life, hence our own, into a bogeyman. |
Al Gore an anti-capitalist? OFP!
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Originally Posted by Larry Gude It's as though they've convinced people that breast milk is a bad thing. |
Nope, that's the companies that sell baby formula.
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Originally Posted by Larry Gude Imagine, a compound that is essential to life on this planet, not only in plant life which creates the very oxygen we breath[e], but in absorbing infrared light that would otherwise burn this planet to a crisp is actually seen in the popular mind as a bad thing.
Imagine a compound that holds far more promise in creating more food and ground cover AND more climate moderation than excess on this planet than it does in killing this planet and it is a bad thing. |
Anything has the potential to be a pollutant if there is too much of it, even water, even oxygen.
Carbon dioxide is not usually the limiting factor in plant growth, except in the ones we consider "weeds" that thrive in poorer soils. "Carbon-Fertilization" experiments with elevated levels of CO2 revealed that nutrients (N & P) tend to be the limiting factors. Of the crops that did perform better (growthwise), their nutritional value was reduced. If higher CO2 concentrations do advance plant growth and sequester the carbon, there is still the question about how to lock that carbon up so it isn't just rereleased.
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Originally Posted by Larry Gude he is a frightening person and he has a frightening faith. |
It is a frightening concept that humans can modify the planetary climate to the point where other species and our own livelihoods are threatened; it is more terrifying to think that so many are willing to turn a blind eye to the possibility that their descendants are just plain effed because we don't want to do anything about it.