Before my mishap with the JD manure spreader which left my legs bent and useless, I attended a prestigious university out West and with some grit and hard work successfully completed a PhD in Chemistry.
I am not a scientist, but I was one for 4 and a half years.
With this background I find myself in the 2 to 3 percent of the population which believes carbon dioxide is good and there can never be too much.
I have based my opinion on my understanding of molecular science and a few you tube programs presented by Professor William Happer, an emeritus physics professor from Princeton, and Dr. Patrick Moore, former president of Green Peace.
Dr. Happer is a delightfully wonkish and stereotypical professor who explains the levels of CO2 have been markedly higher on earth for millions of years and life did just fine. He makes fun of the EPA which declared CO2 a pollutant, and he brings his CO2 detector out at his lecture and posits what level is the CO2 in the lecture room?
We know the levels of CO2 outside are 420 ppm (parts per million) in our atmosphere.
The room is a moderate sized lecture room at a university filled to capacity like a Trump Rally.
The level is measured and found to be 4 times that of the atmosphere, 1800 ppm as he explains we exhale carbon dioxide at levels of 40,000 ppm. "Is anyone feeling sick?" big laugh.
The ocean is taking CO2 out of the atmosphere and chemically converting it to Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) or limestone. Could Coral be dying because the CO2 levels are falling.
We know that plant life cannot survive levels of CO2 under 150ppm.
So the bottom line plants thrive with higher levels of CO2 and greenhouses actually artificially raise the levels to make the plants grow better.
Carbon is the basis for all life, plant and animal. Oil and gas burning releases the carbon that was stored by plant and animals of our past and allows it to be recycled.
If the Carbon Dioxide level doubles from 400 to 800 ppm the earth's warms 0.8 degrees Centigrade under some models. For the next 0.8 degrees centigrade rise it would take the CO2 level to go from 800 ppm to 1600 ppm.
For my Farenheit crippled readers 0.8 degrees C is 1.17 degrees F.
Dr. Moore posits we should not burn coal so it could be liquefied into usable hydrocarbons when the oil and gas supply is depleted.
In the future the solution to prevent lowering CO2 to plantageddon ( below 150 ppm) is to burn Calcium Carbonate with nuclear power and use nuclear power as our source of cheap electricity. India is building 50 new generation 4 nuclear power plants, Russia 50 and China 100. The USA, crippled by its very vocal eco freaks, is planning to build ZERO!
Bottom line, Carbon chemistry plays a vital role and CO2 is a huge player. Plants through photosynthesis take sunlight and carbon dioxide and combine water to make Glucose C6H6O6 which animals eat and glucose is the fuel for our brains and everything else which drives our life. Our cells take the glucose and through the Krebbs cycle convert glucose into Adenosine triphosphate and CO2 and H2O. Adenosine triphosphate is our energy storage unit and is utilized to keep us going.
Now for the irony. The school children played hooky from school to protest the climate change and I suggest we have them make it up this next Saturday by watching Drs. Patrick Moore and William Happer explain the real science of Carbon and not the touchy feely pseudoscience barked by Al Gore and his global warming hysterical scientific heretics.
God has set this world up to run like a Swiss watch. We only need to worry about the wrong people coming into power and we need to be very very worried now from what I can see. To these Global Warming fanatics there is no God, so who is their master?
The fires of hell burn coal and natural gas, perhaps Satan does not like the competition, and his minions in Hollywood and the press are doing his bidding.
President Trump does not buy into the Global Warming hysteria and I like that. But we need to push for 4th generation nuclear power if we want to compete with the rest of the world.
JDM President Urban Poverty Law Center
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