Little Shop of Horrors
Carbon dioxide is in fact not a pollutant. Rather, it is the basis of all plant, and therefore all animal, life on Earth. So says Dr. Robert Balling, director of the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University, who notes that “carbon dioxide concentrations were much higher in the past, millions of years ago, when plants evolved around the world.”
“When carbon dioxide levels increase, plants grow faster, bigger, more resistant to any number of stresses, and far mare efficient in their use of water,” Balling says. Hardly the scorched Earth scenario painted by global warm-mongers.
Posted on July 11th, 2008 under friday freeforall • RSS 2.0 feed • Leave a response, or trackback
July 12th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
This is hardly new information.
Climate Change and Minnesota
http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/GlobalWarming.nsf/UniqueKeyLookup/SHSU5BUTET/File/mn_impct.pdf