Finally, a happy face on global warming! Brought to you by geologist, environmentalist, author, and retired energy industry executive H. Leighton Steward, who cautions that extremist groups are trying to take away your soda pop:

"CO2 Is Not A Pollutant - 'It's The Breath of Life'

Despite these benefits, CO2 has been called a "pollutant" by extremist groups, the media, many politicians and even our administration. To call CO2 a pollutant is a abject lie. CO2 is in our every breath, our soda pops and the dry ice with which we preserve our food. We challenge you to come up with any instance in which CO2 is a pollutant. People who call CO2 a pollutant are extremely uninformed or have another agenda. The first is innocent; beware the latter. We want to take you out of the "uniformed category" by sharing real facts with you..."

http://www.plantsneedco2.org/default.aspx/MenuItemID/73/MenuGroup/Home.htm



Don't know whether to laugh or cry.

:rofl: :cry:

A pure oxygen atmosphere is quite another matter.

It takes up space that valuable CO2 might occupy instead, chokes my plants, and makes it cold outside.

:rofl:

CO2 that is produced by burning fossil fuels is CO2 that does not belong in the atmosphere.

CO2 in and of itself is not a pollutant, but the carbon that has been locked away for millions of years and is now being pumped into the atmosphere is already having an impact, raising atmospheric temperatures ever so slightly, and even acidifying the oceans.

With apolologies to Mae West.

The plants that formed fossil fuels removed CO2 from the air before they were buried. As such those plants depleted the air of CO2. Burning fossil fuel releases that CO2 and makes it available for other plants to take up. What is un-natural about that?

And the CO2 they absorbed has been locked up as coal and oil since before the dinosaurs roamed the earth.

As such, there's nothing inherently unnatural about releasing that stored CO2, if your vision of nature looks like Devonian fern-swamps covering much of the planet's surface, populated by giant insects....

http://www.plantsneedco2.org/default.aspx?MenuItemID=73&MenuGroup=Home&&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
A certain amount of salt is good.

(Cry.)

When your fern dies, Mr. Ecoterrorist, don't come running to me!

Here's the scoop on Mr H. Leighton "Breath of Life" Steward:

Mr. Steward is author-partner of Sugar Busters, LLC, a provider of seminars, books and products related to helping people follow a healthy and nutritious lifestyle. He retired from Burlington Resources, Inc., an oil and gas exploration, production and development company, in 2000, where he had served as Vice Chairman since 1997. Mr. Steward is former Chairman of the U.S. Oil and Gas Association and the Natural Gas Supply Association, and is currently an honorary director of the American Petroleum Institute.

http://people.forbes.com/profile/h-leighton-steward/30522

I'm sure they're very concerned about plants too (nice hunting) :thumbsup: