Posted on 05/10/2015 9:48:52 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reports that global monthly CO2 levels reached 400 ppm. They present this as threatening news, but it is good news for plants and animals. I was involved in a brief to the US Supreme Court opposing the EPA actions on CO2. I proposed we seek Power of Attorney (POA) for the plants. We would vote on behalf of the plants against any attempts to reduce atmospheric CO2 from the current claimed 400 ppm and for any increase, at least to a level of 1200 ppm.
Seeking POA sounds like an environmental stunt for the Sierra Club, or all those who claim to care about plants and animals. Why aren’t they doing it? Why aren’t they proclaiming the good news for the plants and animals they say they care about? The answer is because the facts they have selected for their political agenda on the environment and climate puts them in a completely contradictory position. They know CO2 is critical for plant growth, but only promote planting more trees to reduce atmospheric levels because they have chosen to label CO2 a pollutant. It doesn’t occur to them that increasing the CO2 level enhances plant growth. It creates a moral and philosophical conflict, as they want plants to succeed, but want to reduce the input that makes them successful. They can’t see the forest for the trees. . .
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Sounds silly, but the only way to beat the Left is to use their own tactics against them.
Plants deserve representation.
They’re more intelligent than many beings in Washington.
EPA is vigorously opposed to all that plants require to survive, specifically, humans burning wood.
400 ppm seems a bit low.
“Give me minerals, or give me death!”
So 0.0004% CO2 is going to doom the planet?
That’d be .04% for anyone who doesn’t want to do the division. That’s right, four hundredths of a single percent. These people are insane.
The trees in the pine forest where I live and I have regular conversations. They tell me they are thrilled that the CO2 is rising. Much as we humans would be thrilled if the oxygen level increased.
No, they are dishonest.
Most plants will actually do just fine at those levels, in fact CO2 is the limiting factor for photosynthesis.
LOL! Ok...
"One if by land, two if by tree!"
I am not a health expert, but CO2 alone at those levels wouldn’t be that harmful to humans. Plants are limited in photosynthesis by CO2 as well.
That doesn't make sense. The fact that CO2 levels are rising means there is excess CO2 above what plants can utilize.
Obviously during fall and winter the plants stop/slow photosynthesizing, but these latest numbers are during the spring growing spurt, when plants are at highest metabolism, when meristematic growth is highest.
Crunching the numbers based on total fossil fuel used, they know roughly how much extra is being used by plants, how much is being absorbed by the oceans, how much is accumulating in the atmosphere, but that doesn't add up to the total amount, so they don't know where it is all going.
Apparently, the OCO 2 satellite is expected find the missing carbon
Amazing, considering how much substance is derived from that small percentage.
Well. Maybe if they plant enough trees the oxygen level can increase to the point that dinosaurs could live again to eat all the leftists who’d come out to pet them ...
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