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February 13, 2008
Trees Love CO2
Posted by Dave Blount at February 13, 2008 9:39 AM
GE, the same company that brings us the increasingly leftist NBC, also treats us to a commercial featuring a tree that hugs a house in gratitude because it supposedly emits less CO2 thanks to using GE's greenwashed products:
This would be like us hugging plants for emitting less oxygen. As noted at Minnesotans for Global Warming, most of us used to know by high school that plants absorb CO2 and emit oxygen; we do the same in reverse. Prior to Al Gore, this was known as the balance of nature.
Now that the crucial atmospheric element CO2 is regarded as a toxin for political reasons, the authorities are at a loss to explain why trees planted in New York City grow twice as fast as those planted in the country. Another study has found that increased CO2 helps trees grow in dry grasslands.
Envirokooks and the unscrupulous corporations that pander to them can't both love trees and hate the CO2 required for them to live — except by taking Michelle Obama's advice: "Feel — don't think!"
On tips from John M Reynolds and nanc.
