(co2andclimate) Q: Are you actually taking the position that carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion are beneficial to life on earth?
A: Yes. Higher atmospheric concentrations of CO2 increase plant productivity, water use efficiency, and their resistance to a variety of environmental stresses including heat, drought, cold, pests, deficient nutrients, and air pollution. Introducing well-documented techniques to manage forests, crops, and grazing land can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, improve soil productivity, reduce erosion and the use of chemical fertilizers, and fossil fuel combustion in farming itself. Time spent in the CO2 section of our website will help you explore this often overlooked and frequently denigrated body of research. It’s exciting stuff and an antidote to gloom-and-doom about potential changes in earth’s climate from human’s use of fossil fuels and resulting carbon dioxide emissions.