Hating Carbon Dioxide is Crazy
CO2, carbon dioxide, has been wrongly accused. It is not killing the planet, just the opposite is true.
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What do you really know about CO2?
CO2 is a vital, life-sustaining gas
We have had forty years of CO2-hating propaganda. It is time to debate it, fairly and openly.
What do you think you know about carbon dioxide? What if carbon dioxide (CO2) gas is not the planet killer that the rich and powerful (World Economic Forum types) want you to believe? Decarbonization, carbon taxes, CO2 sequestrations and the like are plans of disingenuous people with selfish, ulterior motives.
People and all the other planetary animals exhale it with every breath. Plants breath it in and make stuff from it. Essentially every food you eat is made from CO2. Yes, even your Quinoa Kale salad. Every grain, leaf, fruit, vegetable, and tuber are made from CO2. That’s what plants do. Animals eat plants then get turned into hamburgers and pepperoni pizzas. Did you know that ever human body is 23% carbon, and 3.67 pounds of CO2 is needed to make 1 pound of carbon? All living things are made from CO2 accounting for gigatons of CO2. CO2 haters can add that to their self-loathing. CO2 sounds like an important gas, not a despicable, planet-destroying pollutant. More CO2 means more life, no CO2 means a dead planet.
CO2 is about 400 parts per million (ppm) in the atmosphere. Let me put 400 ppm in perspective. If you stacked one million quarters (the coin), your stack would be over one mile high. A stack of 400 quarters would be just over two feet high. How much CO2 did you think was in the atmosphere? The oceans of the world absorb gigatons of CO2 regularly. Massive deposits of limestone, marble, and other carbonate minerals are continuously forming. Ocean algae and plankton consume CO2 and start the food chain. They die and along with other ocean creatures, sink and form deposits (maybe make oil in the distant future). Terrestrial plants compete to consume CO2 to make food, fiber, and wood. The more CO2 available, the more plants thrive. There has been observable greening of semi-arid lands with the uptick in CO2 levels. The Cretaceous Period, where the T. Rex ruled over a world filled with large animals, supposedly had high CO2 levels. Life thrived and supported the enormous dinosaurs of that age; the high CO2 did not destroy the planet. An asteroid did. In subsequent blogs, I will discuss the undervalued astronomical drivers of climate and glaciation cycles.