Paul,

It seems you have a basis regarding your comments  on the "greening"
effect of CO2 on  plants:

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/060413-658776-study-shows-co2-rise-
is-causing-deserts-to-get-greener.htm



Tom  Sash


Rising CO2 Levels May Not Make Earth  Warmer, But Is Making It
Greener


Environment: Carbon dioxide  concentrations in our atmosphere
recently hit the 400 parts-per-million  mark. So is all that CO2
scorching the planet? No. But it does seem to be  making our
deserts greener.

Listening to the global warming  alarmists, one would think that
man-made CO2 emissions are threatening the  globe. But that's
speculation. Let's deal in reality. And the reality,  according to
Australian research, is that in this era of higher carbon

concentrations, plant life in dry regions has grown lush.

The  greening of the deserts is due to the "fertilization effect"
— the impact  carbon dioxide has on plant life.

In summarizing the report, the  American Geophysical Union said
researchers focused on "the southwestern  corner of North America,
Australia's outback, the Middle East, and some  parts of Africa,"
and "developed and applied a mathematical model to  predict the
extent of the carbon-dioxide fertilization effect."

The  researchers used "Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
data spanning  1981—2006 and calibrated for long-term analyses of
vegetation dynamics."  The Australia-wide analysis indicated "that
vegetation cover" had  increased about 8% over the 26 years.

"Regardless of what has been  driving these changes, the overall
response of vegetation over the past  two to three decades has
resulted in an observable greening of the driest  inhabited
continent on Earth," says the study's abstract.

Don't  jump to some conclusion that the added vegetation is due to
more rain or  some other variable.

"The team adjusted for the shifts caused by  precipitation, air
temperature, sunlight and land-use changes,"  LiveScience.com reports.

Of course, there's no way to say with 100%  certainty that CO2 has
activated the growth (though global warming  alarmists believe
it's 100% certain that man's carbon output has caused
temperatures to rise since the industrial age began, that there
can be  no other explanation).

But the plant growth is there, and it has  coincided with higher
carbon emissions. And one of the researchers  believes it will
only increase.

"The effect of higher carbon  dioxide levels on plant function is
an important process that needs  greater consideration," says
Randall Donohue of the Commonwealth  Scientific and Industrial
Research Organization in Canberra, Australia.  "Even if nothing
else in the climate changes as global CO2 levels rise, we  will
still see significant environmental changes because of the CO2
fertilization effect."

As we've said for some time, increased CO2  levels will have
beneficial effects. That includes a greener  Earth.
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The earth is trying to run home to mother. In the beginning CO2 was the
gas of life, and Oxygen was the waste product. A poison
if you will. The one cell fellas who could adapt to using the poison
gained an advantage over the CO2 users. An advantage we still hold onto.
Most plants use up CO2 in the daylight, and give off the poisonous Oxygen  at
night. More CO2=more Oxygen=More people.

Mount Pinitubo on Luzon in the Philippines erupted in 1992. Its effects
are still measurable as debris shielding earth from solar radiation, and
adding to global cooling. Plus we are still exiting an ice  age.

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/stratoguide/pinfact.html

If the tree huggers got everything they want it would take 1,000 years to
undo what Pinitubo did in a week. I am tired of pin heads making up data to
support global warming. Al Gore should be emptying bed pans in a brothel.
More in line with his intellect.

Or maybe it's just me.

Lynn E. Hanover