Plants cause global warming now

Hotair ^ | 6:01 AM on May 30, 2023 | David Strom

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Did you know that plants cause global warming, and as plants grow bigger, stronger, and healthier due to increased CO2 they will kill us all?

We are, of course, doomed. Because we are always doomed. Gaia is crying right now.

How does their argument go? How, on Earth, could more plants absorbing more CO2 be a bad thing?

It goes like this:

Increasing CO2 in the atmosphere leads to more plants growing more quickly

Plants don’t absorb CO2 at 100% levels–some goes back into the atmosphere as respiration

More plants mean more respiration, which means that CO2 levels increase when plants respire

Therefore more plants mean more respiration and hence more CO2

You see the problem, right? Plants pull out, on net, vast quantities of CO2 from the air. Simply because they release a fraction of that back into the atmosphere doesn’t mean they are contributing to CO2 levels. They are, in fact, decreasing it by quite a bit. The more plants, the less CO2 on net.

[cuz1961]

Plants don’t absorb CO2 at 100% levels–some goes back into the atmosphere as respiration

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Bait and switch lie

The truth :

Plants don’t absorb CO2 at 100% levels– zero goes back into the atmosphere, it is used to build the structures of the plant , and through respiration some is converted into oxygen and is released into the atmosphere.

All life on earth is carbon based.

We are a carbon based life form.

Matter is neither created or destroyed

It is converted from one form to another

Zero carbon = zero life

[cuz1961]

Correction

Bait and switch lie

The truth :

Plants do absorb CO2 at 100% levels– it is broken down into carbon and oxygen. The carbon is used to build the structures of the plant , and through respiration some is converted into oxygen and is released into the atmosphere.

All life on earth is carbon based.

We are a carbon based life form.

Matter is neither created or destroyed

It is converted from one form to another

Zero carbon = zero life

[JeanLM]

“IGNORANCE is growing faster in the world than plants!!”.

One could say that we have an ignorance pandemic based on a lack of critical thinking...and it is very contagious.

[arthurus]

Kamala is designing the arguments?

[PIF]

How long will the climate crisis insanity last?

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Until everyone is insane or the insanity is violently put to rest.

[Reeses]

All life on earth is carbon based

and all life hangs from a 0.04% wispy thread of atmospheric CO2, the star player in the carbon cycle. Americans used to be taught this by age 10, along with X and Y chromosomes.

[Nifster]

Buy more cows. Eat more beef

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

From POPULAR SCIENCE, Feb 1980..
PS/What’s News ....
page 73
Changing the weather intentionally or otherwise weather modification..(Earth cooling vs Greenhouse effect)

“Do you suppose we can learn enough, soon enough, to pull off a balancing act with the CO2 blanket saving us from another ice age?”

[Irenic]

:)

[chopperk]

Sounds like the Climate Changers want all green vegetation destroyed and make the planet barren. That would fix things permanently.

[Irenic]

It sure seems the mildest spring I’ve ever experienced in Texas, I’m native.

[Danie_2023]

“Carbon, the atom of life, is worth more than gold on the moon. That’s because the moon only has trace amounts of carbon, but rich deposits of gold. There’s no carbon energy to dig up. It will not be possible to farm or make steel on the moon without serious recycling of carbon imported from elsewhere.”

Right. But you can bet that the ChiComs and other globalist crooks will be all over harvesting gold there, if possible.

Anyway, nice dream of mine re: getting rid of the moronic “global warming scammers”. I fear that, much like the Obama’s and Soros’s and Schwab’s of the world....

we’re stuck with them for the duration.

[woodbutcher1963]

All of my PJM Roderdemdrums lost all their blossums. As did all my Azaleas.
There is a local vineyard that lost all their blossoms on their grape vines. There are a lot of apple orchards that will not get any apples this year because of the hard frost a week or so ago.

Meanwhile it was almost 90 degrees on Sunday. My son and I went to Jenness Beach in Rye, NH. It was packed. The ocean is still only 54 degrees. I went in all the way to my ankles.

[Ignatz]

There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the Maples want more sunlight
And the Oaks ignore their pleas

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Global Cooling begets Global Warming, which begets Climate Change, which morphs into Climate Crisis, until.....eventually.....we reach

"Supercalifragilisticexpialicarboniferous"

[Openurmind]

It was just a matter of time before the very Earth they claim to be saving is part of the problem.

[joshua c]

its not about green energy
its not about bugs
its not about transgenders

the issue is never the issue...

the point of these exercises is to weed out dissenters

[TexasGator]

“Unfortunately, the article might be correct. “

Did you read the article?

[Paal Gulli]

The most powerful global warming gas is water vapor.

Water vapor in the atmosphere captures and scatters solar energy before it can reach the ground, thereby reducing overall temperature.

Plants respire water vapor, resulting in a cooler planet.

The plants themselves also capture sunlight before it reaches the ground, and to the same effect (it doesn't take a rocket scientists to understand that shade makes the planet cooler).

Baghdad and Atlanta are almost an identical distance from the equator, both 33° north latitude.

So why is Baghdad so much hotter than Atlanta?

There obviously are multiple reasons but one that is indisputable -- and a principle you demonstrated ad infinitum around the planet -- is that the lack of vegetation tends to make a region more arid and hotter.

[FrankRizzo890]

As long as it’s profitable.