[Repeal The 17th]

I ask:
If mankind can control the temperature or the CO content of the atmosphere,
what do you think the correct temperature and CO content should be?

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“If mankind can control the temperature or the CO content of the atmosphere,
what do you think the correct temperature and CO content should be?”

Exactly! This, to me, is the essence of the flaw in their ‘settled science’ argument. If we could dial in an exact atmospheric CO2 concentration, what should it be? If we could change it today, let’s say lower it a bit, what would that do? The bottom line is that no one knows the answer to that question, and therein lies the problem with ‘settled science’. Who knows? If we lowered CO2 right now it might be disastrous.

[Repeal The 17th]

Interesting thoughts from the original article:
http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2015/03/20/why-i-am-climate-change-skeptic
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“...Over the past 150 million years, carbon dioxide had been drawn down
steadily (by plants) from about 3,000 parts per million
to about 280 parts per million before the Industrial Revolution.
If this trend continued, the carbon dioxide level would have
become too low to support life on Earth.
Without carbon dioxide above 150 parts per million,
all plants would die.
Human fossil fuel use and clearing land for crops
have boosted carbon dioxide from its lowest level
in the history of the Earth back to 400 parts per million today.
At 400 parts per million, all our food crops, forests,
and natural ecosystems are still on a starvation diet for carbon dioxide.
The optimum level of carbon dioxide for plant growth,
given enough water and nutrients, is about 1,500 parts per million,
nearly four times higher than today...”
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Makes me wonder if there is some long term millions of years cycle where:
The CO2 increases, and the plant life explodes.
The plants absorb the CO2, and the CO2 decreases.
The plant life dies off, and the CO2 increases.

[Skepolitic]

I don’t know about the optimum temperature, but I know with metaphysical certainty that the precise optimum CO concentration is less than 1 ppm.

Chronic exposure to CO kills just about everything at levels much higher than that.

CO = carbon monoxide