By using the energy of sunlight, plants can convert carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates and oxygen in a process called photosynthesis. As photosynthesis requires sunlight, this process only happens during the day.
The ocean produces oxygen through the plants (phytoplankton, kelp, and algal plankton) that live in it. These plants produce oxygen as a by-product of photosynthesis, a process which converts carbon dioxide and sunlight into sugars the organism can use for energy.
Once we understand the two simple paragraphs above, we can also understand that the trace gas carbon dioxide is absolutely essential for the life of mankind.
Green plants, both on land and in the water feed on carbon dioxide and produce for us oxygen as a by-product.
For scientists, this is the wonder of Nature. For those who believe in an almighty creator, it is simply another example of the wonders of His creation.
There are those dire scientists who would suck the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere – I heard it on TV only a day ago – since they propose that atmospheric carbon dioxide traps heat and leads to man-made global warming.
The arrogance of these so-called scientists is only matched by their ignorance. They propose to limit global warming to under 2º Celsius.
How are they going to do that? Answer: by limiting emissions of carbon dioxide.
Such is the vanity of man. First of all, there is no such entity as a global temperature. What is supposedly being measured?
A near-surface temperature at five feet above the ground? But why not a foot above? Or ten feet above? Or 100 feet above?
Answer: Because in every single case the temperature would be different. This is enshrined in the Adiabatic Lapse Rate, where the temperature drops 2ºC for every thousand feet of altitude. As Earth is revolving on its own axis, temperature everywhere is changing all the time.
So we see that these claims are not about science at all, but about politics. The Biology of photosynthesis is clear and ‘settled’.
Now, here is a question? Is climate change happening? You bet. Oh yes, climates everywhere are changing, just as technology is advancing at an amazing pace, just as man’s understanding of different races of different colors has changed in the last fifty years.
There are those scientists and politicians who make a virtue of opposing climate change, filling the masses with fears of floods, sea-level rise, violent storms etcetera.
However, changes in climate are inevitable as the whole Biosphere is evolving. As more and more gas and oil are taken from deep under the sea, in the course of time the sea levels must drop, in order to fill the void.
We need not fear changes of climate, for mankind always adapts.
But what we should fear is the ignorance of some so-called scientists, who would inadvertently deprive not only the plant world but also the animal kingdom and mankind itself of the oxygen of life.
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I enjoyed reading this post. This is what’s missing from the Climate Change Doomsday prophecy.
IF Earth is warming, for whatever reasons, (plural!) there will good and bad, but it cannot be all bad. Carbon dioxide, plant food. That’s a win. The Warmists are an unbalanced lot. Ask one of them a few questions and watch them come unhinged.
“You’d like another Ice Age?”
As we’ve seen in history periods of warmer weather saw increases in life expectancy and increase in how humans did. The opposite was the case when it got colder. Yet somehow this 2C increase they keep harping on will somehow cause us to all die or some such crap.
Don’t forget it’s a 2K increase on an undefined base temperature. The simple truth is that there is no valid way of determining a pre-industrial base temperature because (shock horror!) it has always been changing!
A relatively insignificant trace gas that is
” sine qua non ”
essential to all carbohydrate life.
YET
The greenie cretins want to reduce its availability to
ZERO !!!!!
Who do want to listen to ?
The greenie globalists ?
All those who think CO2 is a Pollutant/Contamenent should quit reading their Eco-Wacko News Letters,the NYT’S quit watching CNN and the M.S. Media and quit watching Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprios fake Documentries
Face it if i was not for CO2 the Earth would be a dead hunk of rock in space those who think its a pollutant need to get the facts
The reality I simple:
Anyone trying to remove CO2 from the atmosphere is trying to kill all life on Earth.
A simple bar chart puts CO2 level in context
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DeuAH_4VMAAlBDd.jpg