Global Warming Denialist: Trees Give Off Carbon Dioxide (Al Gore, state, claim)
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Tom DeWeese of the American Policy Center claimed that Global Warming is a hoax because there is a carbon dioxide shortage right now. He then stated that trees and plants give off carbon dioxide.
I wish I was making this up.
"Trees give off carbon dioxide; all the plants around us give it off. The fact is some scientists have done some studies saying we’ve got a carbon dioxide shortage right now. That then causes plants to die, that causes environmental damage."
Did those scientists neglect to inform him that plants absorb carbon dioxide and give off oxygen!?
Trees (all plants AFAIK) do give off CO2 at night. It is only during they day that they absorb it. Even so, they absorb far more during daylight hours than they release at night. It's only when they die and decompose that they present a problem from a CO2/methane standpoint.
In the context of the entire statement, he misspoke. If you read it again, you can see it had to be a mistake because the statement contradicts itself or he is not very clear what he is trying to say.
In the context of the entire statement, he misspoke. If you read it again, you can see it had to be a mistake because the statement contradicts itself or he is not very clear what he is trying to say.
Even if he did just misspeak, he's still wrong. There is definitely not a shortage of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere right now.
Tom DeWeese of the American Policy Center claimed that Global Warming is a hoax because there is a carbon dioxide shortage right now. He then stated that trees and plants give off carbon dioxide.
I wish I was making this up.
"Trees give off carbon dioxide; all the plants around us give it off. The fact is some scientists have done some studies saying we’ve got a carbon dioxide shortage right now. That then causes plants to die, that causes environmental damage."
Did those scientists neglect to inform him that plants absorb carbon dioxide and give off oxygen!?
It needs to be said that trees like most other life on Earth except one species doesn't pull huge amounts of carbon from the ground and put it into the atmosphere. The way we are going we will make this planet be like our neighbor Venus which has aas much carbon as Earth but most of it is in its atmosphere. Venus has a nice shirt sleeve climate where it is 900 F in the shade and the air is like being a few hundred feet under the sea surface. Lovely place that Venus and it never rains either !
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