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Can Carbon Dioxide Be A Good Thing? - Science Video
Science Daily ^ | June 1, 2007 | North American Carbon Program

Posted on 03/22/2009 1:38:04 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

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1 posted on 03/22/2009 1:38:04 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

North American Anti-Carbon Program (NAACP) - has a ring to it.


2 posted on 03/22/2009 1:39:39 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fiddlstix; TenthAmendmentChampion; Horusra; Delacon; CygnusXI; Entrepreneur; ..
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

3 posted on 03/22/2009 1:40:07 PM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Most bad government results from too much government." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Hummmmmmm Someone has taken plant physiology.


4 posted on 03/22/2009 1:42:56 PM PDT by Battle Axe (Repent for the coming of the Lord is nigh!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

FTA - The more carbon emissions we dump into the air, the faster forests and plants grow.

Thanks for the news, I learned this in the third grade, fifty years ago!


5 posted on 03/22/2009 1:43:01 PM PDT by JohnEBoy
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“The more carbon emissions we dump into the air, the faster forests and plants grow.

This new revelation is the result of research done by the North American carbon program. Scott Denning, Ph.D.”

He actually managed to get a grant to find out the obvious???


6 posted on 03/22/2009 1:43:53 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“but sometimes it can have a positive effect on plants and trees”

lol. yeah. almost always, in fact.


7 posted on 03/22/2009 1:45:31 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
ROSE GARDEN

CO2 HAS SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES FOR THE PLANET!!!!
8 posted on 03/22/2009 1:46:12 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

That means I have to mow the lawn more often.


9 posted on 03/22/2009 1:48:23 PM PDT by brianr10
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To: chuck_the_tv_out

Plants take in CO2 and give of O. What a discovery?
Visiting a closed green house can be an refreshing experience..lots of O.


10 posted on 03/22/2009 1:48:24 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Who’d a thunk it?

A statement of the effing obvious. Plants like carbon dioxide. I am sure glad someone finally edumecated me on this subject. (do I really need a sarc tag?)


11 posted on 03/22/2009 1:48:33 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

At least CO2 doesn’t smell as bad as the very dangerous methane


12 posted on 03/22/2009 1:58:40 PM PDT by jcon40
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Hey Mr Scientist.
Carbon is the cornerstone of all life on the planet.

Maybe, just maybe, it is a good thing and nature has a plan for it.


13 posted on 03/22/2009 2:00:42 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: JohnEBoy
FTA - The more carbon emissions we dump into the air, the faster forests and plants grow. Thanks for the news, I learned this in the third grade, fifty years ago!

And more than twenty years ago, manufacurers began producing CO2 generators for greenhouses, to make the plants grow faster and healthier. Growers PAY for extra CO2.

14 posted on 03/22/2009 2:04:46 PM PDT by Gorzaloon (Roark, Architect.)
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To: jcon40
At least CO2 doesn’t smell as bad as the very dangerous methane

Methane has no odor, which is why your gas company has to mercaptans to the gas so you can smell it.

15 posted on 03/22/2009 2:11:44 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Obama: removing the speed limit on the Road to Serfdom)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
...unexpected benefit of rising carbon dioxide levels.

"Unexpected?" Unbelievable. These guys are scientists?

Different species of trees vary, but a typical tree is about half carbon. It's what holds the tree together.

Take a typical 1 ton (small) tree. It would contain about 1,000 pounds of carbon. To get 1,000 pounds of carbon, it had to take 3,667 pounds of CO2 out of the air, and release 2,667 pounds of O2 (oxygen gas).

It takes about 1,400 cubic feet of air to get 1 ounce of CO2, so it took all of the CO2 from about 80,000,000 cubic feet of air. Keep in mind, this is a small tree (the roots count, too).

Not surprisingly, it takes a long time for the tree to make contact with, and grab CO2 from, this much air. Actually, it has to make contact with much more air, because it can't extract all of the CO2 from the air it contacts.

If the air contains much more CO2, it is hardly surprising that the tree can contact the CO2 it needs much sooner, and grow faster.

Farmers in Israel have taken advantage of this for many years, by growing crops near the Dead Sea, which is about 1,400 feet below sea level. There is much more CO2 in the air there, which more than makes up for the extra effort required to grow plants in the harsh environment.

16 posted on 03/22/2009 2:37:11 PM PDT by 3niner (Hoover turned a recession into a depression, FDR turned it into The Great Depression)
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To: KarlInOhio

PURE methane has no odor, but a lot of times it isn’t pure and the stuff that is mixed with it stinks.


17 posted on 03/22/2009 3:30:07 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
This article really shows the benefit of a “higher” education. A person can discover what has been known and published for decades and still be treated as something other than an idiot.
18 posted on 03/22/2009 3:30:26 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Great. Now we have to deal with ANOTHER pollutant. Plants.


19 posted on 03/22/2009 3:30:53 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

So, it’s earth against the trees. Time to pick sides.


20 posted on 03/22/2009 3:43:53 PM PDT by yazoo
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