Carbon Dioxide: We call it Life
This was from a posting on Andrew Sullivan's site. The Competitive Enterprise Institute has begun airing TV commercials on the "alleged global warming crisis." Watch the commercial.
Although it's true that carbon dioxide is a product of cellular respiration and plants do indeed use CO2 in photosynthesis, the problem occurs when the balance is disrupted with burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.
posted by GW at 8:02 PM
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Sooo... I literally just learned more about this last week in my ag. econ. class. My professor was talking about this concept of buying and selling assimilative capacities of CO2 from country to country. So if Country A produces more CO2 than it can absorb (through forest ecosystems), and Country B is a CO2 sequestor (in that the CO2 absorbed by its forest ecosystems more than offsets its production of CO2 through industry), Country A could actually "buy" assimilative capacity from Country B. Though this may provide economic growth for both countries, my thought is... if each country just took more responsibility to keep the balance between their CO2 emissions and their ability to assimilate it, wouldn't that provide a better global environment??
Thoughts Joe?
P.S. That commercial is bogus.
Without CO2, what will we EXHALE!?
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