After watching the presentation given to the Minnesota Senate by Global Warming 101, you'd think that CO2 or carbon dioxide is the worst thing on the planet and will eventually destroy us. In a proposed bill S.F. No 192 carbon dioxide is mentioned 39 times as the main greenhouse gas. It seems to define people as merely "Greenhouse gas emissions sources"
"Greenhouse gas emissions source" means any anthropogenic physical unit or process that releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
And the bill wants the state to authorize CO2 emissions, which could include humans breathing. We all on average emit almost a ton of CO2 just by breathing.
"Allowance" means an authorization from a state regulatory agency to emit up to one ton of carbon dioxide equivalent during a specified year.
But here's the dirty little secret about CO2 that the presenters or the bill never mention.
"PLANTS LOVE IT!"
They can't get enough of it, in fact they need it to survive and grow. The more CO2 there is the more they convert it into Oxygen for us to breath. It's a beautiful symbiotic realtionship between man and plants called Photosynthesis.
In 2003 scientist set out to prove the effect of greenouse gasses on trees. They planted trees in New York City and trees way out in the woods. To their suprise, the trees planted in the city grew twice as rapidly as the ones in the country.
link to article.
“In the country, the trees were about up to my waist. In the city, they were almost over my head — it's really dramatic,” said Jillian W. Gregg, the study's lead author.
“No matter what soil I grew them in they always grew twice as large in New York City,” said Gregg, who said she was initially perplexed by the unexpected results.
Of course not letting the actual results of an experiment get in the way of their original hypothesis, they somehow concluded that man is still to blame for the stunted trees in the country.
I on the other hand think that maybe, just maybe the more greenhouse gasses present, the more green things like it. Why do they call it Greenhouse Gas? Because they actually use it in greenhouses to help the plants grow. By the way its not the CO2 that keeps a greenhouse warm, its the glass enclosure, the sun and the heat source producing the CO2.
I think the trees in the country were CO2 deprived and thats why they were stunted. Just think millions of trees all competing for that little CO2 that some passing deer might exhale. But then I'm not a scientist with a Federal Grant and tons of sponsors. But 17,000 actual scientists have signed onto a study that found increased levels of CO2 is not a bad thing.
Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
Elmer Beaureguard
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