Re: CO2 = plant growth/ The REAL Scientific Community Responds -- Interesting

[Atul Deshmane <adeshman@YAHOO.COM>]

A little of topic.

I did not know this adverse effect of CO2. I can tell you it is going
to take a little while (let's hope not more than a year or so) to
completely change peoples opinion of CO2. For the longest time, CO2
was not seen as a pollutant but a harmless byproduct--after all plants
need it. But your comment adds another reason in addition to global
warming.

1. Global warming

---Bob Bath <bbath@DELTANET.COM> wrote:
>
> It's nice to think that hi CO2 will result in more foilage, but the
reality
> suggests that C-4 plants, which comprise most of our foodstuffs,
suffer in
> this environment.  Controlled experiments to date have suggested
that while
> the leaves of those plants will often grow faster, they don't produce
> proportional hormones and proteins which retard predation.  As a
result,
> insects have a field day, and the entire food chain goes out of whack.
> Again, a case of some dime-a-dozen wacko who belongs to a think tank
and
> gets published in a car journal.
>
>                                     BATHMAN
>
> "If you can't make time, don't make children."
> "Education isn't expensive, but ignorance is."
> "Bigotry is learned, not inherited."
> "Save a child, shoot a TV."
> "As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools"
>
>
> CO2 = plant growth/ The REAL Scientific Community Responds
>

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Re: CO2 = plant growth/ The REAL Scientific Community Responds -- Interesting