The world-renowned astrophysicist and global warming expert, AlGore, and his many companions are working hard for you. They're doing their best to scare you to death. And if you won't buy into their story line, then they'll give it away to teachers to indoctinate your kids.
It's Global Warming! And We're All Gonna Die! And It's All Your Fault! As Charlie Brown of "Peanuts" comic-strip fame (himself also a noted climatological expert) might note: "AUUUGGH!"
Of course, alarmists state with confidence that human-caused carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have reached such a high level that we're killing our planet, due to a "greenhouse effect". In a "greenhouse" situation, CO2 prevents sunlight from leaving the planet; effectively raising global temperatures and resulting in untold catastrophe. What you don't read or hear about today, in the Age of Big Brother, is the fact that identical arguments regarding anthropogenic CO2 emissions were advanced nearly forty years ago. However, at that time, the argument went that human-caused CO2 emissions were certain to cause global cooling. As a result, glaciers were predicted to advance as far as the equator. And of course, this catasrophe would be All Your Fault. During the past forty years, alarmists have done nothing other than to change their view of the nature of the Dire Consequences of Human Activity. Since global cooling didn't exactly pan out for them, they've decided that we're responsible for global warming.
If they truly believed these dire scenarios, don't you think they'd do their absolute best to limit CO2 production in their own lives? Like maybe by shutting up? Or better yet, by simply dispensing with breathing entirely?
Over two decades ago, when the atmosphere's CO2 concentration was approximately 340 ppm (up from a pre-industrial value on the order of 280 ppm), Idso (1982) stated in a small self-published book (Carbon Dioxide: Friend or Foe?) that if the air's CO2 content continued to climb, it would enhance plant growth and water use efficiency to the point that semi-arid lands not then suitable for cultivation "could be brought into profitable production," further stating that "the deserts themselves could 'blossom as the rose'." A few years later he advanced essentially the same thesis, this time in the pages of Nature (Idso, 1986) in a brief paper entitled "Industrial Age Leading to the Greening of the Earth." Then, after nine more years had passed, he once again propounded the concept, this time in a publication based on a talk he gave as part of the University of Minnesota (USA) Kuehnast Lecture Series on the topic of "CO2 and the Biosphere: The Incredible Legacy of the Industrial Revolution."
Throughout most of the succeeding years, this highly optimistic view of the biospheric consequences of the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content - and the great good it can do for humanity and nature alike - was largely ignored, as the world's climate alarmists took center stage with headline-grabbing predictions of catastrophic CO2-induced global warming and the host of disasters they contend it would cause. Now, however, enough has been learned to take Idso's upbeat view of the subject more seriously, in support of which statement we report the following information that has been developed from real-world observations and model projections of vegetative productivity made throughout the vast continent of Asia.
In other words, just like you were taught back in elementary science class, CO2 is captured and used by plants. And as a byproduct, plants give off - O2 (oxygen). As you may recall, that's what most animal life needs to use.
Completely and intentionally unaddressed by the lunatic fringe is the fact that the most potent "greenhouse gas" by far is not CO2, but methane. And the reason it's unaddressed is because the global warming lunatics aren't really especially interested in global warming or global cooling. They just want to accrue power over your life. They can do this, they imagine, by blaming you for increased CO2. And amusingly, even as they try to rake you over the coals, they promote preservation and expansion of the most significant source of potent greenhouse gases on the planet: wetlands.
Yes, according to the EPA, 76% of all atmospheric methane comes from wetlands. The largest source (11%) from animals on the planet comes from: (guess who? It ain't you!) termites.
87% of the most potent of all so-called "greenhouse gases" can be traced directly to non-anthropogenic sources, yet the lunatics want you to stop driving your car in order to "save the planet".