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:: tackle alleged man-made warming ::
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Elevated CO2 is already greening up formerly arid areas.
CO2 is plant food.
Warmer temperatures have always coincided with humanity thriving, we are a tropical species.
Only technology allowed us to venture beyond the tropics.
During the Minoan and Roman periods, temperatures were much warmer than now and civilization expanded.
There were no SUVs at the time. No coal-fired power plants.
The Sun is cyclical and we are powerless to control the temperature of earth. We are just along for the ride.
He MUST be related to some of the blithering/blothering/blathering/bluthering lugnuts on this site.
Science knows the planet is cooling, not warming.
However, a few degrees warmer and the USA could grow more fruit, more crops, more livestock, and have more fresh water from rain.
Happer explained, among other points, that most plants were actually designed to exist in an atmosphere much richer in CO2, which he described as a wonderful and beneficial molecule. Almost all plant life would benefit from more CO2, which is why farmers pump it into their greenhouses, Happer explained.
Injecting CO2 in a green house is used to stimulate growth of high value crops.
Finally some common sense. But I explained this to a “smart” graduate student once and the response? “See, that proves my point, I wouldn’t want to walk in that greenhouse.” I shook my head and walked away. CO2 is such a small percentage of the atmosphere..................
Someday people will look back on “scientists” who rated CO2 as a “pollutant” and shake their heads in amazement.
Periods of historic warming are called optimums for a reason.