Friday, April 27, 2007

More CO2 means only greener future.

  • I love the irony behind this quote.
  • Unfortunately, this guy is probably right, if we frame the discussion to a global scale. Why? Because plants grow better if they have more CO2, to photosynthesise. For example when scientist compared the growth of same kind of carrots in "normal" environment to a hyper CO2 one (same water and sun conditions of course), the results showed that carrots that had more CO2 available grew more. So globally, if you have more CO2 in the atmosphere, you are going to have a more plant/algae growth. Because bigger (in mass and numbers) plants/algae have more chlorophyll, which is green, you have a more green planet in the future.
  • Just to deal with the most usual doubt: But we are going to have draughts/floods and plants don't grow if they don't have water/are under water. - We must stay in the context of this quote. Even if the weather patterns and consequently water distribution changes in the future, so will the pattern of organisms witch contain chlorophyll (plant/algae). But because they will have more CO2 available they will grow faster. So you still have a greener future! Even if you don't like the Adriatic sea covered in algae it is still greener than it was before!
  • The first person who clearly shows logical fallacies in my post is going to become eligible to receive a subsidy to state subsidised food! ( free lunch)

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