CO2 is a Life-giving Gas; We are in a CO2 Famine

CO2 is a Life-giving Gas; We are in a CO2 Famine

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/we-are-in-a-co2-famine

By Willem Post

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Atmospheric CO2 ppm, human plus natural, it is near the lowest level in 600 million years. See image

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Net-zero by 2050 to-reduce CO2 is a super-expensive suicide pact, to 1) increase command/control by governments, and 2) enable the moneyed elites to become more powerful and richer, at the expense of all others, by using the foghorn of the government-subsidized/controlled Corporate Media to spread scare-mongering slogans and brainwash people, already for at least 40 years.

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Crops in open fields, with CO2 at 420 ppm, require fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and much machinery to have high yields/acre.

Crops in greenhouses, with CO2 at 1200 ppm, require minimal chemicals, have 2 to 3 times higher yields/acre

https://www.masterresource.org/carbon-dioxide/increased-plant-produ...

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CO2 ppm during the Little Ice Age was about 280 ppm

Plants are on a starvation diet with CO2 at 421 ppm, in 2023

The difference is almost entirely due to increased use of fossil fuel, which have been providing about 80% of the world’s energy use for the past 50 years, even with building highly subsidized wind and solar systems.

The image is of a professor in Arizona in his greenhouse during the 1970s, when CO2 ppm was about 325, much less than at present

The image shows plant growth at ambient, at amb. +150; at amb. +300; at amb. +450

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Many plants have already become weak or extinct, along with the fauna they support, due to CO2 at 420 ppm, or less.

As a result, many areas of the world have lost resilience, became arid and deserts.

Current CO2 ppm needs to at least double or triple, as proven in laboratories and commercial greenhouses.

Unfortunately, not enough fossil fuel is left over to make that CO2 increase happen.

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Natural cycles drive our climate.

The current temperatures are higher than in 1900 by about 1.5 C, but less than 0.5 C of that can be attributed to CO2. The rest is due to:

1) Long-term cycles, such as coming out of the Little Ice Age,  
2) Earth surface changes, due to increased agriculture, deforestation, especially in the Tropics, etc. 
3) Urban heat islands, such as about 700 miles from north of Portland, Maine, to south of Norfolk, Virginia, forested in 1850, now covered with heat-absorbing human detritus. Japan, China, India, Europe, etc., have similar heat islands

4) Fossil fuel use

5) Permafrost methane, CH4, which converts to CO2
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CO2 ppm increase from 1979 to 2023 was 421/336 = 1.25, greening increase about 12%, per NASA.
CO2 ppm increase from 1900 to 2023 was 421/296 = 1.42, greening increase about 19%
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Increased greening: 1) Produces oxygen by photosynthesis; 2) Increases world flora and fauna; 3) Increases crop yields to feed 8 billion people; 4) Reduces world desert areas.
The ozone layer absorbs 200 to 315 nm UV wavelengths, which would genetically damage exposed lifeforms.

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Energy-related CO2 was 37.55 Gt, or 4.8 ppm in 2023, about 75% of total human CO2. 
One CO2 ppm in atmosphere = 7.821 Gt.

Total human CO2 was 4.8/0.75 = 6.4 ppm in 2023. See URLs
CO2, human plus natural, to atmosphere = 421.08 ppm, end 2023 – 418.53, end 2022 = 2.55 ppm; to oceans 2.3 ppm (assumed); to forests and other sinks 1.55 ppm; natural CO2 increase is assumed at zero.

Forests net CO2 absorption = absorption 15.6 Gt - emission 8.1 Gt = 7.6 Gt, or almost 1 ppm

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-satellites-help-quantify-forests...
Mauna Loa curve shows a variation of about 9 ppm during a year, due to seasons
Inside buildings, CO2 is about 1000 ppm, greenhouses about 1200 ppm, submarines up to 5000 ppm
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Respiration: glucose + O2 → CO2 + H20 (+ energy)
Photosynthesis: 6 CO2 + 12 H2O (+ sunlight+ chlorophyll) → 1 glucose + 6 O2 + 6 H20
Plants respire 24/7. Plants photosynthesize with brighter light
In low light, respiration and photosynthesis are in balance
In bright light, photosynthesis is much greater than respiration
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https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/co2/co2_annmean_mlo.txt
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/new-study-2001-2020-gl...
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/summary-of-world-co2eq...
https://issuu.com/johna.shanahan/docs/co2_pitch_4-3-24_baeuerle_eng...
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Oceans Absorb CO2
Sea water has 3.5% salt, NaCl, by weight.
CO2 molecules continuously move from the air into sea water, per Henry’s Law
CO2 and NaCl form many compounds that contain C, O, H, Cl, Ca
They sustain flora and fauna in the oceans, such as plankton, kelp, coral, seagrass, shell fishes, etc. See
The Fairy Tale of The CO2 Paradise Before 1850...A Look at The Real Science

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-fairy-tale-of-the-...

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At the surface, seawater pH 8.1, and CO2 421 ppm, the % presence of ions [CO2], [HCO3−], and [CO3 2−] is 0.5, 89, and 10.5; “Free” CO2 is only 0.5%; CO2 out-migration is minimal, given the conditions.
The oceans are a major sink of CO2 (human + natural)
https://tos.org/oceanography/assets/docs/14-4_feely.pdf

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APPENDIX

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Here are four articles attesting to the small global warming role of CO2 in the atmosphere

Eight Taiwanese Engineers Determine Climate Sensitivity to a 300 ppm CO2 Increase Is 'Negligibly Small'

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/eight-taiwanese-engine...

By Kenneth Richard

The Fairy Tale of The CO2 Paradise Before 1850...A Look at The Real Science

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-fairy-tale-of-the-...

By Fred F. Mueller

Achieving 'Net Zero by 2050' Reduces Temps by 0.28 C Costing Tens of $TRILLIONS

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/achieving-net-zero-by-...

By Kenneth Richard    

German Researcher: Doubling Of Atmospheric CO2 Causes Only 0.24°C Of Warming ...Practically Insignificant