Carbon Dioxide Emissions Help Tropical Rain Forests Grow Faster - page 2.

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Quote from: biggerbig on April 02, 2015, 11:53:16 AM

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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Help Tropical Rain Forests Grow Faster

Isn't that pretty obvious? It's like forcing the pigs to eat too much potatoes - they will grow faster, if a person will eat too much he'll get fat. So more Carbon Dioxide = more greeneries

Yes, but. When the tropical rain forests eat the carbon dioxide, they exhale oxygen. More oxygen means that we can burn more fossil fuels, thereby making more carbon dioxide. Neat, eh? We can drive our cars further and longer from the old (fossil fuel) rain forests, and the present rain forests give us oxygen, and ultimately convert themselves (over a long period of time) into fossil fuels so that the next generations can drive their cars because of the oxygen future generation rain forests exhale.

Neat, right?

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well if the people wouldnt chop of the tropical forest to plant soja...

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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Help Tropical Rain Forests Grow Faster

Isn't that pretty obvious? It's like forcing the pigs to eat too much potatoes - they will grow faster, if a person will eat too much he'll get fat. So more Carbon Dioxide = more greeneries

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Something has been troubling me ever since this anti-greenhouse gas campaign began. I've never thought of carbon dioxide as being the real menace, particularly since that's exactly what plants breathe. Instead, my concerns have always been with the amount of carbon monoxide and other extremely dangerous pollutants industries introduce into the environment, which is hardly ever mentioned. I believe this omission is made on purpose to protect industries from receiving legitimate criticism in regards to their dirty and secretive pollutive practices.

[Now, obviously too much CO2 is indeed a problem, since we don't breathe it. Nevertheless, as long as we didn't destroy all the trees and plant life (in the name of progress) and kept enough of them around, it wouldn't have ever been such a big problem. Yet, as it turns out, that is exactly what is happening. Consequently, the reduction in trees and other plant life through clear-cut logging practices and ever expanding parking lots is indeed exacerbating the (otherwise inappreciable) carbon dioxide problem.]

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Quote from: BADecker on April 02, 2015, 09:50:00 AM

More work for the farmers in the Amazon jungles who are trying to clear the lands for cultivation. Does this mean that farming is a cult?

...so they can produce more GMO soy beans

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More work for the farmers in the Amazon jungles who are trying to clear the lands for cultivation. Does this mean that farming is a cult?

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Quote from: BADecker on December 31, 2014, 10:54:31 AM

If jungles encompassed the world, we could all live in the trees. Tarzan did it. Cheesy

Don't forget the flying snakes

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If jungles encompassed the world, we could all live in the trees. Tarzan did it. Cheesy

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Quote from: botany on December 30, 2014, 06:57:51 PM

Surprised to see the title. Grin

Global warming and greenhouse effect have been off the headlines for quite some time now.

Of course, scientists have to figure out some reason why the rate of global warming has been slowing down since about 1999.

If there was a way to get more of the ocean water into the atmosphere, that would be a good thing. Global warming would increase. The polar ice would melt. Northern Canada and Siberia would become nice, fertile, warm lands. The Sahara and other deserts would bloom once again. The world would suddenly have enough easy room for another 7.5 billion people. Actually, there's easily enough room for that right now. Think of how great the populations could be then.

It would be fun.

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Quote from: botany on December 30, 2014, 06:57:51 PM

Surprised to see the title. Grin

Global warming and greenhouse effect have been off the headlines for quite some time now.

Not really familiar with my mostly updated little thread? AGW is always the headline a few times a month here Cheesy

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/reddits-science-forum-banned-climate-deniers-374873

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Surprised to see the title. Grin

Global warming and greenhouse effect have been off the headlines for quite some time now.

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Study shows trees absorb more greenhouse gas than expected

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Tropical forests are growing faster than scientists thought due to rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
A Nasa-led study has found that tropical forests are absorbing 1.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year as they photosynthesise and grow.

And this is far more than is absorbed by the vast areas of boreal forest that encircle the Arctic.

The researchers claim their findings show that rainforests like the Amazon are essential for soaking up excess greenhouse gases, and play a far greater role than had been previously realised.

More...http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2891432/Carbon-dioxide-emissions-help-tropical-rainforests-grow-faster-Study-shows-trees-absorb-greenhouse-gas-expected.html

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