From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: DAMN That CO2 Pollution!
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 15:18:59 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-05-30 14:33, Siri Cruz wrote:
> On 30/5/25 13:12, Alan wrote:
>> On 2025-05-30 12:37, AlleyCat wrote:
>>>
>>> CO2 is good for agriculture... More proof.
>> Maybe if you got something more than a GED, you'd have learned
>> that correlation is NOT causation.
>>
>> And that you cannot simultaneously argue that man's contribution
>> to increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide are
>> too small to have any effect on climate...
>>
>> ...but they are large enough to increase agricultural yields by
>> nearly 4%.
>
> Carbon dioxide is not a poison to plants the way it is to human.
> Increased carbon dioxide is a benefit to some plants. They need more
> water and light in some bands to exploit that.
>
> Plants and animals react to heat differently. Animals move away from
> rising water if they have room, but plants can only drown. Plants cannot
> inhabit salt water without adaptation; humans can remain immersed in
> salt water. It the salinity of drinking water that matters.
>
> Vertical farms experiment with different gasses, lights, and minerals
> depending on the crop.
>
I'll give him this one point.
Increasing CO2 levels even if absolutely nothing is done about
greenhouse emissions will have no impact on animals with respect to CO2
being a "poison".