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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (50660)	7/7/2004 1:13:08 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

DJ, more evidence that Mq was right, way back in 1987, that CO2 is a good thing in the atmosphere: newscientist.com As CO2 was stripped from the atmosphere and was permanently buried in coal and hydrocarbon and limestone, Earth was dying. Hence the onslaught of the ice age, with gradually increasing glaciations as more CO2 is stripped and carbon buried. With more C02, crops will be producing like crazy. Yields will be up around the world and people can worry about obesity instead of starvation. I know which is a better problem to have. One can always choose not to shove more tucker down one's gullet if obesity isn't attractive. But it's hard to choose to eat if there isn't any food and what there is costs too much to buy. With average temperatures up a degree or two, yields will also increase due to better chemical reactions. It must be annoying being a plant and trying to grow with freezing air blowing around - some have such a hard time of it they give up altogether and go deciduous, waiting for spring to try again. CO2 is good stuff. Bring it on! If we get a LOT of it, people will be more healthy on average because they'll have to reduce their smoking. Those of us who don't smoke will be okay too. There is so little highly aerobic manual labour, or need for maximum oxygen uptake, to run away from predators for example, that more CO2 is no bad thing. Normal human lungs can cope easily as they are designed for a LOT of physical activity. Here's a post from Faultline on CO2 and stomata Message 19720770 On China getting good crop production from CO2 paid for by Americans: Message 18341828 On hard-working plants which have had to struggle for CO2 since it was depleted: Message 19143615 [that one's to you] Don't forget the little plants at the bottom of the food chain - they can't make their leaves bigger because they don't have leaves. Message 19260666 BTW, the Atkins diet fad has boosted demand for NZ meat and increased prices. Thanks Mr Atkins [RIP]. How glaciations get a grip: Message 19261351 and explaining it to Yiwu Message 19785644 Equilibrium CO2 levels Message 19860715 How it used to be in Egypt and don't forget the Mediterranean filling: Message 19865281 Chlorophylists don't think CO2 is pollution: Message 20078523 Gaia is indifferent to us: Message 20078523 We have to make Earth how we want it, just as we build houses to make it how we want it. Cloudiness, contrails and reflection of insolation: Message 20173479 How stripping of CO2 works [subduction etc] Message 19204507 That's a good summary! Almost the full story. Mqurice