The Science and Public Policy Institute has released a ground-breaking book chronicling the many benefits of atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The 55 benefits discussed are drawn exclusively on the peer-reviewed literature.
Many books and reports rail against mankind’s usage of fossil fuels such as coal, gas and oil because of the carbon dioxide or CO2 that their combustion releases into the atmosphere.
Indeed, this phenomenon is routinely castigated in numerous print and visual venues as a result of the unproven predictions of catastrophic CO2-induced global warming that are derived from theoretical computer-driven simulations of the state of earth’s climate decades and centuries into the future.
Now, however, comes a book that does just the opposite by describing a host of real-world benefits that the controversial atmospheric trace gas provides, first to earth’s plants and then to the people and animals that depend upon them for their sustenance.
The book is The Many Benefits of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment, written by the son/father team of Craig D. and Sherwood B. Idso. It is encyclopedic in nature, with fifty-five different subjects treated and arranged in alphabetical order — starting with Air Pollution Stress (Non-Ozone) and ending with Wood Density — each of which entries comes with its own set of reference citations.
The book is subtitled How humanity and the rest of the biosphere will prosper from this amazing trace gas that so many have wrongfully characterized as a dangerous air pollutant.
Says Dr. Craig Idso, “It may not be everything you ‘always wanted to know’ about the bright side of the issue; but it illuminates a number of significant aspects of earth’s biosphere and its workings, as well as mankind’s reliance on the biosphere for food and numerous other material necessities that are hardly ever mentioned by the UN IPCC or the mainstream media.”
The book is so unique a reference source that it belongs in the library of every organization or institution concerned about the issues of CO2 enhancement and derived public policy initiatives.
Brief synopses of each of the 55 sections of the book may be found on the SPPI [scienceandpublicpolicy.org] website and that of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change at www.co2science.org
The book can be ordered from Vales Lake Press, http://www.valeslake.com/bookmart.htm
It should definitely be subsidized to the max. Free coal-plant-generated electricity for all, sez I!
🙂
Congrats, father-son Dr. Idso. More CO2, more plant growth, more food production, stable food prices despite ever-rising global population, more humiliation to alarmist-Malthusian cranks like Paul Krugman.
I Guess that in the first few paragraphs the 2 behind CO fell off.
A very CO rich environment isn’t very benificial since we would all die from it.
[Fixed, thanx.]
May I suggest that the SPPI sends a complimentary copy to Prince Charles in the UK. He has long taken an interest in environmental matters. It may help him to take a more balanced view in his comments.
Interesting read however I fear the book, and the institute, will be ridiclued by alarmists if the info at the following link is anything to go by.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute
This will surely be mandated as a compulsory text in all classrooms.
/sarc
About time there was some pushback against the baseless canard that “carbon” is a dangerous pollutant.
And @Patrick Davis: what, exactly, is ridiculous about the SPPI or its supporters? Are they any more ridiculous than the WWF, Treehugger, etc?
Btway, I also plugged this book here, including the earlier book “Climate Change Reconsidered”, http://funwithgovernment.blogspot.com/2011/02/co2-is-useful-gas.html
Because of agenda driven science and with the support of the media and Governments we are being dragged back into the an intellectual dark ages.
Books like this are vital from liberating people from the fear and stigma thats been imposed on them unwittingly through the msm though without the promotion and support of the msm it will only gain so much traction.
Its just not science if it’s not on TV…/sarc
The Idso’s write sane and science based articles and this book must be in the same vein.
“Smokey says:
February 11, 2011 at 1:05 am”
I said the book, and institute, will be ridiculed by ALARMISTS (That is AGW alamists etc) if the info at the site I link to is anything to go by.
From the site “The Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) is a global warming SKEPTICS GROUP which appears to primarily be the work of Robert Ferguson, its President; its website draws heavily on papers written by CHRISTOPHER MONCKTON.”
Personally, I think there is lots of useful info at that site.
Ted Maley says:
February 11, 2011 at 12:53 am
May I suggest that the SPPI sends a complimentary copy to Prince Charles in the UK. He has long taken an interest in environmental matters. It may help him to take a more balanced view in his comments.
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We all know that Prince Charles is a proponent of the ‘talking -to-plants-is-good-for-them’ theory. Well, in fact it may really make sense, not because plants appreciate right royal nice words, as the royal prince may think, but actually, by putting one’s mouth and nostrils close to their leaves, which increases the CO2 content to their immediate surround due to the exhaled air while breathing…………Just thinking.
Interesting read: It’s not only land biomass which benefits from increased CO2, but also the hydrosphere biomass increases with CO2. From Andrew Bolt’s blog on the Herald Sun:
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/
Andrew Bolt – Friday, February 11, 11 (06:50 pm)
If you want more fish on your plate, fire up the barbecue, the car, the lights, the afterburner….
From a University of Queensland paper published by Global Change Biology:
Climate change is altering the rate and distribution of primary production in the world’s oceans…. We simulated the effects of change in primary production on diverse marine ecosystems across a wide latitudinal range in Australia using the marine food web model Ecosim…
Under a plausible climate change scenario, primary production will increase around Australia and generally this benefits fisheries catch and value and leads to increased biomass of threatened marine animals such as turtles and sharks.
Hats off to the Drs Idso – this text should be in every high school science classroom in the literate world. Knowledge is the only antidote for superstition and fairy tales used to frighten the ignorant.
this book should be in all schools in the world regardless of the left wing school teachers who tell our kids a load of BS .the ALARMISTS will one day be brought to trial for there actions concerning so called global warming
Can that be ordered Internationally from http://www.valeslake.com/bookmart.htm ?
About time!
CO2 has been demonised for too long.
I am looking forward to reading it from cover to cover.
CO2 a benefit? Who’d a thunk such a thing? /sarc
As we say in the Corps “No screaming eagle sh*t!”
Maybe Anthony or somebody can get a campaign started with the goal of sending 10,000 copies of this book to Lisa Jackson from 10,000 different people for distribution to every dumbass at the EPA who thinks CO2 is a dangerous pollutant.
The thing is, we can not really influence/increase atmospheric CO2 concentration significantly. Natural sources and sinks are overwhelming, IMHO.
We will be able to test this hypothesis in the next few years/decades with the coming global cooling. I predict CO2 concentrations will start dropping too (ice buidup and cooling oceans) without much lag.
We are carbon based lifeforms after all.
Considering CO2 is the first link in the global food chain, it follows that more of this food must be good for something(s)
Name me [a] species that does not benefit from the abundance of food.
There are benefits? …..And after Prince Charles has just changed the Guard at Buckingham Palace?….
http://fenbeagleblog.wordpress.com/
They published a book I can recommend
It tells CO2 is our very best friend.
The warming is done
saturated, we won.
Too hard for you warmists to comprehend?
“http://www.transworldnews.com/www.co2science.org” is what I get from the link to CO2Science. I think that needs fixed. (In the penultimate paragraph.)
In the penultimate paragraph, “Brief synopses of each of the 55 sections of the book may be found on the SPPI [scienceandpublicpolicy.org] website and that of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change at http://www.co2science.org” I get the link as “http://www.transworldnews.com/www.co2science.org”, which does not work. I believe a fix is in order.