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Carbon Dioxide: The Gas of Life
Townhall.com ^ | 8/15/2013 | Paul Driessen

Posted on 08/15/2013 7:17:10 AM PDT by rktman

It’s amazing that minuscule bacteria can cause life-threatening diseases and infections –- and miraculous that tiny doses of vaccines and antibiotics can safeguard us against these deadly scourges. It is equally incredible that, at the planetary level, carbon dioxide is a miracle molecule for plants -– and the “gas of life” for most living creatures on Earth.

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TOPICS: Science; Society
KEYWORDS: carbon; carbondioxide; climatechange; co2; understandable
Easy to understand example of just how great CO2 really is. Well easy for some but excludes those with low comprehension skills. Such as a former vp/presidential candidate, a certain king hussein, various weather channel hosts and most lsm "journalists". No CO2, no fizz in you soda. How come none of these ecko-wack jobs have gone after the soda manufacturers? We're not adding more CO2 to anything. It's just moving it from one state to another(and I don't mean NY to PA). For me, my plants just love them some CO2.
1 posted on 08/15/2013 7:17:10 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman
Industrial Revolution factories and growing human populations burned more wood and fossil fuels, baked more bread, and brewed more beer, adding still more CO2 to the atmosphere. Much more of the miracle molecule came from volcanoes and subsea vents, forest fires, biofuel use, decaying plants and animals, and “exhaust” from living, breathing animals and humans.

Malarkey. With the exception of burning fossil fuels, none of these add to the amount of CO2 in the biosphere in a significant way. They just move it around within the biosphere.

2 posted on 08/15/2013 7:22:36 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: rktman

Why don’t the greenies ever go after “Big Cola” for DELIBERATELY putting CO2 into their soft drinks?

(Coke and Pepsi are big libtard companies- let’s put themon the hotseat and defund them like they defunded tobacco companies.)

Tobacco companies used to be HUGE Republican donors... if they were huge Democrat donors I guarantee we would all be hearing about the “healthful benefits of bathing your lungs in cleansing smoke”


3 posted on 08/15/2013 7:27:55 AM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: Sherman Logan
They just move it around within the biosphere.

Exactly. But without CO2, we would not exist. More CO2, more plants. More plants, more oxygen. Oxygen is what allows humans and pretty little kittens to live.

4 posted on 08/15/2013 7:30:11 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: Sherman Logan
Malarkey. With the exception of burning fossil fuels, none of these add to the amount of CO2 in the biosphere in a significant way. They just move it around within the biosphere.

Of course that excepts "fossil fuels," which are nothing more than solar energy that has been stored in lifes battery, the hydrocarbon. Returning the carbon to the atmosphere as CO2 should not be considered a bad thing.

5 posted on 08/15/2013 7:30:17 AM PDT by D Rider
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To: D Rider

I’m not saying that it is bad. Certainly at some point an increase in CO2 would indeed be a bad thing, though I suspect we are far below that point now.

But the paragraph I cited was indeed malarkey. Nothing he mentions increases CO2 net, except fossil fuel burning. As you say, this merely returns previously stored C to the atmosphere, but it does indeed raise CO2. The others do not. Lumping them together is either an ignorant mistake or an intentional attempt to deceive the reader.


6 posted on 08/15/2013 7:33:01 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: rktman
It is the gas of life for ALL living creatures. Without CO2 there is no vegetation. Without vegetation, there are no grazing animals, without grazing animals there is no food for the carnivores (or humans), without these things there are no insects, worms, etc. and no hosts for bacteria.

Without CO2, the Earth is just a bare rock, with dust, like the moon.

7 posted on 08/15/2013 7:33:32 AM PDT by expat2
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To: rktman; Jim Robinson; LucyT; All

Thanks for this thread.

CHON is found in all life thanks to the magic process of photosynthesis.

Without CO2 supplying the C there would be no life on Earth.

Since CO2 is essential to all life, it is an environmentally friendly gas.

If fact, CO2 is the “Greenest” of all green house gasses.

BTW, since the EPA banned CO2, is the EPA a Totalitarian Front Organization which opposed to Life?


8 posted on 08/15/2013 7:38:56 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Sherman Logan

Your clarification is exactlty what I had already read into what posted previously. We are on the same page.


9 posted on 08/15/2013 7:49:58 AM PDT by D Rider
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To: Graewoulf
Water, H2O, another "greenhouse gas" is also essential for life.
10 posted on 08/15/2013 8:13:34 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: reg45

H2O = 25,000 parts per million (2.5 % of atmosphere), and CO2 = < 400 parts per million (< 0.04% of atmosphere).

BTW, isn’t a “Greenhouse” good for growing green plants?

Sooooooooooooooooooo, what is the problem? Surely the “Greenies” are not against green plants?


11 posted on 08/15/2013 8:38:17 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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