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10/25/2023 3:26:52 PM

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Section 4: President & Congress
Subject: Hushed-up fossil fuel QUESTIONS Msg# 1194150

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Tom Hemmick Forum Leader

Joined 7/21/2005

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Dave Walter (Read)

Joined 6/19/2006

Mark & Dave

Here's some further examples showing the benefits of increased CO2 levels.

Image Title: CO2 boosts tree growth
Image Info: This demonstration shows how commercial greenhouse operators boost the growth of their plants and trees. Notice the amounts of CO2 being added to green houses, from +150 to +450 ppm vs only the amounts from the AMBIENT air. Click Here

Report titled: Analysis: ‘I Love Carbon Dioxide and You Should Too’ Click Here

Quotes: "An additional significant benefit from this increasing CO2 fertilization is that the plants have smaller stomata (pores) and have lessened water needs. Less water used means that more stays in the ground and is leading to increasing soil moisture across much of the planet and a “greening” of the Earth. According to NASA, up to 50% of the Earth is “greening,” in part due to higher CO2 levels." . . . " During nearly all of Earth’s history, carbon dioxide concentration was at many multiples of our current level, averaging 2,600 ppm, or 6.5 times our current measurement.

Image Title: CO2 boosts crop yields Image Info: Studies have shown that increased CO2 levels are stimulating crops needed for increasing global populations.

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Here's another topic, with a big connection to nature itself that deserves much more attention than the media has been featuring. Its called -- planting a trillion new trees.

Report titled: Planting 1.2 Trillion Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions, Scientists Find, Feb. 2019 Click Here.

Two prominent studies published in 2013 and 2016 have earlier pointed out how increasing CO2 levels have produced growing amounts of greening of the globe's forests

Image Title: CO2 is greening dry regions

Image Title: CO2 is making Earth greener

School kids, of course, are aware how plants absorb CO2 and release oxygen, while growing their stems & branches as well as producing fruits, vegetables & lumber, etc.

Besides sequestering (storing) quantities of CO2, studies have shown how plants and trees can thrive on lower amounts of water. Among these gains are significant increases in the crop yields needed to feed the globe's growing populations.

Folks might wonder why there's not broad support among officials. Are the govt & media afraid of recognizing the 90% public polling supporting such plans?

The efforts to add up to 1.2 trillion trees have received some “favorable words” but there’s been lack of follow thru on those pledges. In 2020 Trump pledged US support for the trillion trees initiative at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. Click Here But the congress has, so far, been unsuccessful in passing related legislation, as proposed by GOP members, and certain scientists.

Yet the World Economic Forum, three years later, is still promoting this project. Here’s their 2023 report Click Here Quotes: "Trees also sequester carbon. . . along with mangroves, peatlands, wetlands and other ecosystems, forests have the potential to sequester enough carbon to bring our emissions reductions one-third of the way to our interim 2030 targets . . . Sadly, wide scale degradation and loss of forests is hindering the ability for trees to do their part in carbon sequestration.

Seems that Biden is so intense against oil and gas and favoring EV's he won't use this nature-based approach. Could it be that Joe's hate for anything Trump liked is driving Biden's policies??

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