I’ve been trying for several years now to figure out just WHEN Carbon-Dioxide became our dire enemy. Trees inhale Carbon and breathe out fresh, lovely Oxygen for us to breathe. Remove Co2 from our atmosphere, and we will have much less Oxygen.
Can someone explain to me just what I am missing here?
Is it possible that the stupids in the world think they’re talking about Carbon-MON-oxide, which most certainly poisonous to us? Or am I the one who has it wrong?
Not looking for a big debate, just a little clarification.
Sadly, the modern obsession with CO2 started when Margaret Thatcher wanted to break a coal strike in the early 19080s. An old idea that CO2 raised atmospheric temps was dusted off and put into motion by the BBC. There’s nothing to the theory, of course, but the damage is done now.
Oh what a tangled web we weave...
Shhhh, don`t tell the gaia tree hugging marxists farmers LOVE these things:
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That is a good point. The uninformed/uneducated/mentally slow/abnormally low IQ/average democrat would indeed make that mistake.
The problem with that logic is that to create the CO2 by burning fossil carbon we are using up oxygen. Either way, whether we create more CO2 or we don't, we will have plenty of oxygen.
We have been emitting over the last century larger amounts of CO2 and also been carrying out large scale deforestation. So the percentage of CO2 has gone up. Even tiny variations can have catastrophic impacts.