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To: Constitutionalist Conservative
Step two of the my plan now complete...


49 posted on 04/17/2009 11:19:57 AM PDT by Gabrial (Obama Lied - The Economy Died)
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To: Gabrial
I thought CO2 encouraged plant growth that cools the planet?

“Growth-enhancing effects of CO2 create an impetus for cooling. Carbon dioxide is a powerful aerial fertilizer, directly enhancing the growth of almost all terrestrial plants and many aquatic plants as its atmospheric concentration rises. And just as increased algal productivity at sea increases the emission of sulfur gases to the atmosphere, ultimately leading to more and brighter clouds over the world's oceans, so too do CO2-induced increases in terrestrial plant productivity lead to enhanced emissions of various sulfur gases over land, where they likewise ultimately cool the planet. In addition, many non-sulfur-based biogenic materials of the terrestrial environment play major roles as water- and ice-nucleating aerosols; and the airborne presence of these materials should also be enhanced by rising levels of atmospheric CO2. Hence, it is possible that incorporation of this multifaceted CO2-induced cooling effect into the suite of equations that comprise the current generation of global climate models might actually tip the climatic scales in favor of global cooling in the face of continued growth of anthropogenic CO2 emissions.”

http://www.co2science.org/about/position/globalwarming.php

54 posted on 04/17/2009 11:38:45 AM PDT by Gabrial (Obama Lied - The Economy Died)
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