Sunday, March 7, 2010

Swimming in CO2? NOT REALLY :)



Everybody has heard about the "pollutant" carbon dioxide, but only few people know the real meaning of CO2. Carbon dioxide is a colourless odourless incombustible gas present in the atmosphere and formed during respiration, the decomposition and combustion of organic compounds, and in the reaction of acids with carbonates (thefreedictionary). CO2 is just a significant part of the atmosphere, it's concentration is of 387 ppm (parts per million) which is about 0.038%, while oxygen is about 20.54% and nitrogen is about 76.55%. In the last 600 million years, this is the 2nd time the CO2 concentrations are THAT LOW! The first time was in the Carboniferous Period and the 2nd, now at days, named the Quaternarny Period. The CO2 highest concentration was during the Cambrian period 530 million years ago, with 7000 ppm! You can see it in the graph below.



Politicians and scientists warn us about thi "pollutant" which is actually nothing in out atmosphere, and it is NOT a pollutant, we need it to survive!!!! If we have more CO2, trees absorb it and produce more O2 (oxygen), humans breath in O2 and exhale CO2, and this is a cycle! As seen in the picture below, that white smoke is not polluting, it is just water vapor. People see this and think this is global warming, greenhouse effects, destruction of the ozone layer, and a lot more lies -).

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