Craig Idso on CO2 Benefits: A Summary

Watt's Up With That ^ | 2/9/2023 | Robert Bradley Jr

[norwaypinesavage]

"Typically, a 300-ppm increase in the air’s CO2 content … will raise the productivity of most herbaceous plants by about one-third, which stimulation is generally manifested by an increase in the number of branches and tillers, more and thicker leaves, more extensive root systems, and more flowers and fruit. Elevated CO2 Reduces Temperature Stress in Plants. CO2 is the ‘food’ that sustains essentially all plants (and animals who consume plants, including humans).”

[norwaypinesavage]

And besides all of this, it might take a slight bite out of the extra cold winter we're having. I wouldn't be buying any palm trees for your ocean front property on Hudson Bay, just yet, though.

[Dr.Deth]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The solubility of CO₂ in water is inversely proportional to temperature

Since CO₂ is soluble in water and the oceans cover a majority of the Earth's surface, the oceans sequester more CO₂ than any other CO₂ sink.

Because of the inverse solubility of CO₂ with temperature, the colder the oceans get, the more CO₂ they can absorb.

Conversely, when the oceans get warmer, they expel CO_2.

Atmospheric CO₂ therefore follows global temperatures, it does not cause them.

You can see the yearly global atmospheric CO₂ fluctuation as the oceans warm and cool with the seasons in the NOAA graph below.

The "settled science" that CO₂ causes "climate change" is criminal sophistry.

[Maine Mariner]

And don’t plan on skinny dipping in the waters of the Northwest Passage which according to the “experts” was to be completely ice free by now.

[ryderann]

Does the desire to lessen CO2 by the One Worlders fit in with the “accidental” destruction of the food processing plants and poultry farms, ban on fertilizers, etc. ?

[CA_soon_gone]

Thank you for posting this. I’ve been making this argument for years but no one listens. To add to what you posted, because the oceans release CO2 as temperatures rise if CO2 caused warming we would have a positive feedback system and temperatures would run away to the upside. Since this doesn’t happen the premise must be false.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Well, more that the morthern hemisphere plant growth socks the CO2 out of the air during the growth season, then releases some of that back during the later decay season.

Southern Hemisphere has many fewer million km^2 of land area. The equatorial is steady at release during decay and intake during growth. So Amazon and the African and SE Asia jungles don’t change the CO2 yearly cycle much.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Well, more that the morthern hemisphere plant growth socks the CO2 out of the air during the growth season, then releases some of that back during the later decay season.

Southern Hemisphere has many fewer million km^2 of land area. The equatorial is steady at release during decay and intake during growth. So Amazon and the African and SE Asia jungles don’t change the CO2 yearly cycle much.

[Alas Babylon!]

Another big lie the warmist cult love is to claim the air will get hotter and DRIER.

BS!

The warmer the air the more moisture it will hold. Cold air is much drier, not hot air. Desertification and global shrinking of forested areas being replaced with savannahs and grasslands were a hallmark of the Ice Age. As the ice melted, moisture was released, not just into the ocean as water, but into the atmosphere, too.

A warmer Earth is a wetter Earth.

Really, a plant paradise. More plants mean more plant eaters. This is good for ALL life.

[bert]

So, cold beer has more fizz than warm.

Beer and Cokes must be banned as serious CO2 polluters

[ROCKLOBSTER]

The "settled science" that CO2 causes "climate change" is criminal sophistry.

And as the chart reveals, there is virtually NO CO₂ in the atmosphere.

400 PPM (.04%) is damn close to Zero.

That .04 percent is part of the 1%, which is neither Nitrogen or Oxygen.

[central_va]

Occasionally in my house the methane level does get above 1%.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The atmosphere contains 0.04% CO2.

Man is responsible for 3.4% of that 0.04%

The total amount of anthropogenic CO2 In the atmosphere is therefore 0.0014%

Completely eliminate man’s contribution and the Earth’s atmosphere still contains 0.04% CO2.

[norwaypinesavage]

Your points are very well taken, except for the statement that we were in an ice age. We ARE in an ice age, The Ice Age. It's the only one seen, so far, in the geologic record. We just happen to be in an 'Interglacial' period during this ice age, a short period 'between the glaciers'. It's clearly not the warmest of the last 5 'interglacials', but fortunately, it might be the longest. The end could be nigh. Here's the data:

[Alas Babylon!]

Good point. I should have said “Last maximum glaciation”.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

You’re getting into danger territory and you need to be careful. A diet change is in order. The Lower Explosive Limit for methane is 4%.