It is plant food which we augment via our respiration.
It is currently the scourge of the climate change alarmists because it is a byproduct of fossil fuel burning and is believed to cause global warming via its heat trapping ability. Alarmists see global warming as a disaster in the making and recommend replacement of fossil fuels with alternative energy generation that are carbon neutral as a way to stave off the cooking of humans. Some people are prone to the dramatic or maybe they just don't like the capitalist system.
But life is full of the ying and yang, the plus and minus, the good and the bad. It turns out that CO2 is not at all bad. It does have redeeming qualities and may not be the demon that warmists would like us to believe.
CO2 is plant food and with increasing amounts of it in our atmosphere we should expect the benefits of increased biomass (food and forests) to be a result. And that is indeed the case.
Ground level ozone is harmful to food crops. It turns out that CO2 ameliorates the damage.
By increasing biomass higher levels of CO2 also increase the amount of disease fighting chemicals in plants.
Studies are beginning to show up that indicate that the earth's atmospheric sensitivity to increased levels of CO2 has been vastly overestimated.
CO2 is not the modern day witch that alarmists would have us believe. To the contrary increased levels of CO2 are beneficial to our existence and it should be noted that throughout much of our planet's early history CO2 levels have been much higher than they are now. And no runaway global warming occurred. Similarly with levels of CO2 below those of contemporary society temperatures have been warmer than today. This represents a disconnect between the theory of CO2 driven climate change and reality. Reality is always the final arbiter in scientific disputes.
It is time to end the campaign to impune CO2 and fossil fuels as the cause of the modern global warming and to search for the real causes of climate change and temperature fluctuations. Political ideology has once again led some people to reach conclusions that run contrary to reality and to pursue their own agenda in complete disregard for the facts. Emotional dedication to ideology often lead us into dark alleys.
Warmists liked to convey the picture that scientists skeptical of man-made global warming had their heads in the sand, were deniers, were flat earthers, were in the employ of the fossil fuel industry and couldn't see the forest for the trees when all the time it was they who needed to close their eyes to bolster their delusions about the climate and immunize themselves to the contrary evidence that reality presented. They created a cabal and denigrated those who did not buy into their delusions.
The modern debate on climate change is another example of the pot calling the kettle black.
CO2 was exhaled during the creation of this post. No living thing was harmed. Some even liked it.
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