‘The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science’ – Dr. William Happer:
The demonized chemical compound is a boon to plant life and has little correlation with global temperature.
By HARRISON H. SCHMITT AND WILLIAM HAPPER
WSJ.COM 5/8/13: Of all of the world’s chemical compounds, none has a worse reputation than carbon dioxide. Thanks to the single-minded demonization of this natural and essential atmospheric gas by advocates of government control of energy production, the conventional wisdom about carbon dioxide is that it is a dangerous pollutant. That’s simply not the case. Contrary to what some would have us believe, increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will benefit the increasing population on the planet by increasing agricultural productivity.
The cessation of observed global warming for the past decade or so has shown how exaggerated NASA’s and most other computer predictions of human-caused warming have been—and how little correlation warming has with concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide. As many scientists have pointed out, variations in global temperature correlate much better with solar activity and with complicated cycles of the oceans and atmosphere. There isn’t the slightest evidence that more carbon dioxide has caused more extreme weather.
The current levels of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere, approaching 400 parts per million, are low by the standards of geological and plant evolutionary history. Levels were 3,000 ppm, or more, until the Paleogene period (beginning about 65 million years ago). For most plants, and for the animals and humans that use them, more carbon dioxide, far from being a “pollutant” in need of reduction, would be a benefit. This is already widely recognized by operators of commercial greenhouses, who artificially increase the carbon dioxide levels to 1,000 ppm or more to improve the growth and quality of their plants.
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Warming or cooling aside.. If you had to pick the perfect emission to tax, what would it be?.
I find it more than a little suspicious that the perfect gas to tax is also the doom gas..
Such a splendid idea, thats been back filled with nothing but politics and greed from the day this global warming scam was born..
A blank canvas for the Lib-left to hate upon.. A communist Joe Plumber.. The ever present issue that never ever makes it onto a political platform..
Shame the information age has become the disinformation age..
The air quality standard for inside building is up to 5,000 PPM (0.5% CO2) is OK. You will live in a room with 10,000 PPM (1% CO2), but people complain of headaches and feeling dizzy. So, 400 PPM is a LONG way from the 5,000 PPM standard.
It is interesting to notice that the alarmist response to improved plant growth is to say, “It only helps weeds!” Which amazing to think that all plants know if they are a weed or a useful plant AND chose to respond or not respond to increased CO2. ;-))
Don Bennett says:
May 9, 2013 at 6:47 am
For an exhaustive treatment of the roll of CO2 on plant growth go over to http://co2science.org/ and check out their data base of studies. I’ve read their summary of research results over the years and it is truly amazing what good the increased atmospheric levels of CO2 will do for the biosphere.
Yes, very true. They have a comprehensive database where one can search per plants name and see by him/herself. Hundreds over hundreds of studies:
http://www.co2science.org/data/plant_growth/plantgrowth.php
Of course CO2 benefits also the weeds, what the cultist say, as it benefits all plants. There are different ways of combating weeds, not through CO2 starvation.
As Freeman Dyson said – about 15% of the food produced today is due to the increased CO2 fertilization. This is food for 1 billion of people out of 7. Not without reason famine worldwide decreased even with increased population.
And also the greening of the planet measured by satellites.