The Truth about CO2 | 5 Minute Video
Global Warming activists will tell you that CO2 is bad and dangerous. The EPA has even classified it as a pollutant. But is it? Patrick Moore provides some surprising facts about the benefits of CO2 that you won’t hear in the current debate.
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What are two of the dirtiest words in the English language? Well, if you’re concerned with Global Warming as so many people are these days, the answer is obvious. The two words are “Carbon Dioxide.” Or as it is known by its chemical symbol — CO2. One atom of carbon and two atoms of oxygen. If we pump much more of it into the atmosphere, the argument goes, we’re going to alter the climate. Catastrophically.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, which constitute 85% of our energy use must be reduced to zero by 2100. If we don’t save ourselves from ourselves, we’re toast. That’s the claim.
Here’s what strange, though. All life is carbon-based, and the carbon for all that life originates from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. All of the carbon in the fossil fuels we are burning for energy today was once in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide before it was consumed by plankton in the sea and plants on the land. Coal, oil, and natural gas are the remains of those plankton and plants that have been transformed by heat and pressure deep in the earth’s crust.
In other words, fossil fuels are 100 percent organic and were produced with solar energy. Sounds positively green.
If there were no carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere, the Earth would be a dead planet. Period. Talk about catastrophic climate change. Take away CO2 and you’d have it. And yet, the US Environmental Protection Agency has deemed this essential ingredient for life a pollutant! But, how can something that makes life possible be bad?
Before I deal with that question, let’s get clear on our terms. It has become common to refer to the emissions from burning fossil fuels for energy as “carbon” emissions. That is entirely misleading. Carbon dioxide is not carbon. Carbon dioxide is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas which is an indispensable food source for all living things. Can you have too much of it? In theory, yes. That’s what climate alarmists say is happening now — CO2 levels are getting too high. Are they right? Well, if we look at the big picture we find something surprising.
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As an eco-socialist, I wanted to see how capitalists plan to combat climate change within the confines of capitalism. I wanted to look at it from a serious perspective. And I picked some videos from this channel and started watching this video first. I used to think you capitalists were stupid, but I couldn't have thought you were stupid that much. You say oil is organic and organic things can't be bad for the environment, so you say oil is good for the environment. That's the stupidest argument I've ever seen.
The problem is greenies wont listen to word you say ! They can't handle FACTS !
The more CO2 in the atmosphere, the better.
Leftist politicians use global warming and climate change to scare the public and gain power.
I am against alarmism. But you can't address this topic without debating the risks of Greenhouse Effect.
gonna buy a SUV:)
Mercury, asbestos, lava and lead should be celebrated because they are natural.
If his logic holds true, than water known as a wonderful thing that should be celebrated is not a problem when people get flooded or drown
2:00: "How can something that makes life possible be bad?" Have you ever heard of oxygen poisoning? Have you ever heard of people drinking so much water that it diluted the electrolytes in their body and killed them? As I recall this happened to a Marine basic trainee a few decades ago. Too much of anything can kill you.When we burn fossil fuels, we reintroduce carbon that was taken out of the Earth's carbon cycle hundreds of millions of years ago.
That said, I don't believe the climate alarmists. Is the climate changing? Of course! It has throughout history and long before history. Do human actions influence that change? Probably, to some degree, but it's a big planet. Is the change bad? Depends on where you live. If your desert home gets greener, that's a good thing. If your oceanfront property becomes just ocean, maybe not so much. Will humans survive climate change? I expect so. As a group, we're hard to kill, and survive in climates from the desert, to rain-forests, to swamps, mountains, tundra, and the Antarctic.
The people who want to scare you want you to have the government protect us from ourselves. Better yet, a conglomeration of world governments, which in turn are bought and paid for by special interest lobbyists. What they want is POWER, and that's the bottom line.
The two words are (cow farts)
Absolute crap. This is the "education" you get from Prager University.
Oil, extracted more than 30,000ft down, is from plankton and plants!!!!! No fossil has been found deeper than 12,000ft.
Are you high or incredibly dumb? It sounds like you have no education in chemistry or biology at all. You think human can simply grow because there's more co2 in the air? Plants have their limits too and now it's over their limit that's why we have excess in the air. This is why i hate greanpeace. It's a shit organisation and the people exploits the donations to do rumb shits while living like kings in poorer countries.
The name of this video should be “How to trigger a liberal”.
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H2O has a permanent dipolmomemt of 1.84D, CO2 has an induced dipolmoment of just 0.11D.
Dependant on humidity air carries 20 to 100 times more water vapor molecules than CO2 molecules.
Water vapor overlay CO2 for 14um to 17um. Therefore CO2 absorbs just between 13um to 14um in the troposphere. That is why water vapor dominates CO2 by 100 times in the troposphere. That's why climate sensitivity stays below1K.
The spam bots don’t seem to like this video.
The truth seems to hurt their feelings.
They prefer to bask in the warmth of their religious zealotry when the wind turbines freeze over and the solar panels are covered in snow cutting off all power to the heat pumps that they got instead of the boilers and heating oil tanks that would actually have kept them from freezing to death
CO2 makes up 0.04% of the atmosphere – if it drops to below 0.02%, plants will die. Carbon emissions as a problem is a myth. Human pollution is not.
But we have to admit that no lies were told in this video. These are arguments that are valid. Of course we should stop the emissions of CO2, but these arguments are not lies.
1:45 – "Talk about catastrophic climate change, take away CO2 and you'd have it".
Thank you very much for being honest and admiting that CO2 has an effect on the climate.