CO2 Is Good for You

[ClydeR]

Energy companies, while denying global warming, are acknowledging -- embracing -- increases in CO2 levels.

“CO2 increases over the past several decades have increased global greening by about 11 percent,” the consultant said. Higher carbon levels in the atmosphere will boost worldwide agricultural productivity by $10 trillion over the next 35 years, he added.

And this doesn’t include the indirect benefits of good-ol’ CO2. “Over the past two centuries, global life expectancy has more than doubled, population has increased eightfold, incomes have increased 11-fold. At the same time, CO2 concentrations increased from 320 ppm to about 400 ppm,” Bezdek said, using the abbreviation for parts per million. The benefits of CO2, he said, exceed its costs by ratios of between 100-1 and 900-1. A chart helpfully illustrated this “Close Link Between CO2 & GDP.”

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Even if the Earth were getting hotter -- something we continue to deny -- that's not necessarily a bad thing. Things have only gotten better since we started adding CO2 to the atmosphere.

[Fallen]

In truth, it's better than a mini ice age. That being said, with so many cities near the coast lines, any significant rise in sea levels is going to be a problem. I don't have kids though, so it's more of a "them" problem.