Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant
Judging by all the hoopla lately about unnatural global warming, one is led to believe that carbon dioxide (CO2), which is identified as the culprit, is a bad man-made element which pollutes the atmosphere.
However, all life, including plants, animals, and humans benefit from it, and the more the better.
All life on earth is carbon-based and CO2 is an essential ingredient. When plant growers want to stimulate growth, they introduce more CO2.
CO2 is an odorless, colorless, and tasteless nutrient which plants absorb, emitting oxygen as a waste product. Humans and other living creatures breathe the oxygen and emit carbon dioxide as a waste product.
CO2 goes into the atmosphere but does not stay there. It is continually recycled by terrestrial plant life and earth's oceans, which has been described as "the great retirement home" for most atmospheric CO2.
Facts about CO2:
— Of the 186 billion tons of CO2 that enter earth's atmosphere each year from all sources, only six billion tons are from human activity. Approximately 90 billion tons come from biological activity in earth's oceans and another 90 billion from sources such as volcanoes and decaying land plants.
— CO2 is a minor constituent of earth's atmosphere, making up less than .4 of one percent of all gases in the air.
To anyone with a discerning mind, the myth that global warming is unnaturally created by man's doing clearly is perpetuated for devious reasons.
In an interview with Grist Magazine, May 9, 2006, concerning his book "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore said,
"Nobody is interested in solutions if they don't think there's a problem. Given that starting point, I believe it is appropriate to have an over-representation of factual presentations on how dangerous global warming is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are."
Dr. William Gray, professor of atmospheric sciences at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo., was quoted in the Denver Rocky Mountain News, Nov. 28, 1999, as saying, "Researchers pound the global-warming drum because they know there is politics and, therefore, money behind it."
Another science professor, Petr Chylek of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said, "Scientists who want to attract attention to themselves, who want to attract great funding to themselves, have to find a way to scare the public
Let's not be taken in by those who promote doom-and-gloom scenarios while lining their own pockets and living high.
— ROWENA PLETT
