Carbon Dioxide is our Friend!

[Grundy]

Dont listen to those global warming alarmists. Carbon dioxide is essential to life because we breathe it out.

There is a front group for oil called Competitive Enterprise Institute that is fighting against Al Gore's carbon dioxide smear campaign.

This link has the ad. It is bizarre.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/18/new-ads-funded-by-big-oil-portray-global-warming-science-as-smear-campaign-against-carbon-dioxide/

[spyder913]

wow.... does that mean poop is essential to life because we excrete it?

the least they could have done was say it's essential to PLANT life =P

[Sayj]

If we retain too much CO2, we have Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder. Also known as COPD. Also known as what people have if they are smokers.

If we don't have enough CO2, we become alkalotic... our Ph increases, and this can happen if we are hyperventilating.

There is no logic in the Competitive Enterprise Institute's thinking. The body is getting rid of CO2 because it only uses what it needs. Not because it needs more.... Not because it is a good thing for the environment. Having an increase in CO2 doesn't improve our world whatsoever.

[MickeyFinn]

"f we retain too much CO2, we have Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder. Also known as COPD."


Hehehehe. Although that is definitely a possibility, COPD is caused by four main factors- smoking being the largest.

Normally, your body regulates when to breathe by the level of CO2 in your system (NOT the oxygen). This is why holding your breath is very hard but inhaling helium is easy to do until you pass out.

COPD patients have such a fluctuation in the amount of oxygen their body takes in because of smoking/asthma/chronic bronchitis that the body starts regulating it's breathing by the amount of oxygen in your system instead of the amount of CO2. This is how sleep apnea takes place as well, because your body only breathes when you are low on oxygen.

Unfortunately for COPD patients, your body builds up a toxic level of CO2 before it is in need of more oxygen, which is why it's such a dangerous problem. Enjoy that oxygen bottle the rest of your lives, smokers :p

[Sayj]

I was extremely simplifying... LOL!