tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-432936290336197328.post8481746223650742013..comments2023-10-09T17:08:20.817+01:00Comments on Terri Jackson's Scientific Blog: Resisting the Green Dragon - an answer to today's environmentalismUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-432936290336197328.post-43680136750867154692011-05-25T19:13:34.048+01:002011-05-25T19:13:34.048+01:00Huh?
"Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant bu...Huh? <br /><br />"Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant but a gas essential for human breathing and for plant growth." <br /><br />Last time I checked, I was exhaling CO2, thanks to my highly evolved ability to respire sugars, which were photosynthesized by plants out of CO2. How exactly is CO2 essential for breathing? You mean like oxygen? I don't think so.<br /><br />And carbon dioxide is a heat-trapping, greenhouse gas last time I checked. We are burning through fossil fuels faster than it took to form them, and last time I checked, plants were not photosynthesizing that much faster now versus when those coal, oil, and gas deposits were created. And how much faster are we burning them (than the time it took to make them)? <br /><br />Well, we can burn through a mountain of coal in 10 years. It probably took more than 1 million years to form that mountain of coal. So let's do the math: 1,000,000 divided by 10 equals 100,000. <br /><br />I guess all this anthropogenic global warming stuff really comes down to the real fraud being done to the American public: plants can now photosynthesize 100,000 times faster than they used to when they evolved 400 million years ago. Oh, and that organic matter now turns into coal 100,000 times faster than it used to back in the Carboniferous >250 million years ago. <br /><br />Now it's abundantly clear. What the scientists and experts forgot to tell us is that we're all good: biology and chemistry and physics is all cranking 100,000 times faster nowadays.<br /><br />I don't think so... sunlight can only turn into a sugar so fast; that sugar can turn into coal only so fast. <br /><br />Think, folks. If you use yesterday's or last summer's sunshine, we're good. If you insist on using (or are forced to use) sunshine from 60 or 250 million years ago, there's an inherent imbalance in how quickly we are converting sunshine-->sugar-->carbon dioxide versus running the equation backward as CO2-->sugar.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04196275059350135651noreply@blogger.com