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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (33052)	7/6/2012 2:25:47 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 86352

You made a logical failure Mq: <Oxygen is 21% of air while CO2 is 0.04%. As CO2 levels rise, oxygen output does increase but it's by a tiny amount. > CO2 increases as coal and hydrocarbons are burned but the burning uses oxygen from air. AFTER the CO2 has been produced, oxygen output increases from photosynthesis but that's long afterwards [like years and decades]. First, atmospheric oxygen levels reduce, albeit by a minuscule amount, as the hydrocarbons are turned into CO2 and H2O. All the carbon that people are going to burn over the next 100 years won't cause oxygen to reduce to 20%. It won't make a significant change. But it will help plants grow. Plants have been battling for survival in homeopathic CO2 since the carboniferous absorbed most of the carbon dioxide out of the air and oceans. The carbon was deposited in vast limestone, coal, shale, oil, gas, and tar formations. Mqurice