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Plants cause global warming now
Hotair ^ | 6:01 AM on May 30, 2023 | David Strom

Posted on 05/30/2023 5:32:20 AM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climate; co2; craziness; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal
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To: Blennos

They knew “Global Warming” was BS, so they had to rename their crusade to “Climate Change”, because as anyone who has ever looked at the record highs/lows for days can tell you, the weather was ALWAYS very stable before SUVs.

/s


41 posted on 05/30/2023 8:05:49 AM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
While AGW is a scam rather than a science, the study in question was not saying that plants contributed to CO2 and global warming. It was saying the plants did not help reduce the CO2 by as much as previously thought.

It does no good to fight against the cult of climate change with bad arguments.

42 posted on 05/30/2023 8:10:08 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Now I know why Neanderthals went extinct, they started to farm and it killed them! 🤓


43 posted on 05/30/2023 8:11:19 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: Deplorable American1776

I thought it was from smoking.


44 posted on 05/30/2023 8:12:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

I have long suspected that ficus plant in the corning of the dentist office was plotting to kill me.


45 posted on 05/30/2023 8:18:00 AM PDT by Leep (What skill or service did the biden family have that netted them tens of millions of dollars?)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

“Plants cause global warming now”

And they are transphobic and a threat to our “democracy”.


46 posted on 05/30/2023 8:22:02 AM PDT by Leep (What skill or service did the biden family have that netted them tens of millions of dollars?)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

I’ll be sure to plant a whole lots more. Got some more peppers and tomato plants. Cucs and zucchini is up. Strawberries everyday. Corn not sprouting yet.


47 posted on 05/30/2023 8:25:46 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: Leep

Why don’t they just say the quiet part out loud. “Humans cause global warming and there’s too many of them on the planet.”


48 posted on 05/30/2023 8:25:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: TexasGator

Either you’re an idiot or you forgot the /sarc tag.


49 posted on 05/30/2023 8:53:09 AM PDT by nanook (Thomas Jefferson was right.)
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To: Leaning Right; SunkenCiv; Kaslin; BenLurkin; Lazamataz; Red Badger

Trees are known to have thrown orcs. And goblins. Truly. We are approaching the ent times long prophesied.


50 posted on 05/30/2023 11:28:18 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8R0FtP0Z30


51 posted on 05/30/2023 12:27:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Surplus photosynthesis makes all respiration possible.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

I KNEW IT, I KNEW IT; “IT’S A TRIFFID THAT SPITS POISON AND KILLS”!

(thanks to Rocky Horror theme song)


52 posted on 05/30/2023 6:49:28 PM PDT by 5th MEB
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