Wow, times are dark, times are strange, people eat up any nonsense if the right words are spoken. Put a "Scientist," "Climate expert," or "Celebrity" in what you say and BOOM! Everyone believes you without checking 1% of that you said! Magic!
Now, people, steemers, friends, CO2 is not a pollutant. It is not poison in the air; it's not damaging to anyone. You produce CO2 when you exhale, you global warming machine!!!
Next link is for your eyes and your eyes only; the leaf area has expanded on average by 30%. Let's not forget the side effect, if plants absorb more co2 than before and grow bigger, we have more food with the same technology, and the CO2 levels will not increase as rapidly as before, take that climate computer models!
http://newatlas.com/nasa-climate-co2-plants/43037/
Plants use CO2 to stay alive. It is like Oxygen for us. They take CO2 from the air and release Oxygen for us to enjoy. If the level of CO2 is low plants die "asphyxiated." Don't fight against plants Oxygen and call yourself "bad mean green machine."
The present level of CO2 in Earth atmosphere is ~400 ppm (that is parts per million) If you have 1 000 000 particles only 400 are CO2 that is a tiny percentage. I will put a nice pie chart so you can see the proportion. The small brown slice is all the CO2 that we have. And from that, we contributed with our industry 100 ppm since the beginning of civilization; we raised it from 300 ppm to ~400ppm.
If you only take your information from scientists that are paid by the government to create a problem so that the government can tax us all and regulate everything we do in the name of the Climate Change God and CO2, I have some new information. The levels of CO2 found on Earth have varied a lot, and I have another graph that puts some perspective on previous levels.
As you can see CO2 was 4000ppm, 10 times as much as today. We had 1000-2000 ppm in the dinosaurs era, no problem with that. If you go the propaganda route, you will see a graph with 400 000 years and then it's cut exactly at the point when CO2 was rising in the past. Can't let complete information brake your government research funds.
Let's return to the present and see you know what is the CO2 level in your room as you sleep with your window closed. I measured my CO2, and I got 1000-2000 ppm in one night, nothing happened, I did not die, I'm all right, opened the window, and the level was 400 ppm in an hour.
Now back to plants, the can't grow properly with less than 280ppm CO2. We brought it to a more sustainable level with our industry. With emerging new technologies we will make the transition anyway from fossil fuels towards green energy. The problem is government interference. Justifications for spending trillions of dollars to do absolutely nothing for the environment, I am looking at you, Paris Acord!
Some heavy reading to detrigger myself.
"For the majority of greenhouse crops, net photosynthesis increases as CO2 levels increase from 340–1,000 ppm (parts per million). Most crops show that for any given level of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), increasing the CO2 level to 1,000 ppm will increase the photosynthesis by about 50% over ambient CO2 levels." More in the link.
http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/00-077.htm
Now ask yourself why do you hate CO2 so much, Why do you think it's such a big problem. It's not a problem, and if it is, our participation is minuscule. And even if we want to stop CO2 from rising, we must stop or cripple our industry that would result in the deaths of billions of people. I don't think we should let poor people starve because of government greed.
And if you are not convinced and what to lower CO2 and damage plant growth you can't be serious about supporting government action on this. Come on people! Governments are the most inefficient systems ever created by men. They can't maintain a road network or manage a lemonade stand without charging ten times the price. It's hilarious that you may think they will fix the f*ing Atmosphere of Earth.