Moron
Greenies
Saw
a story the other day that the folks of Denver were crying about the Natural
gas fired power plants. They said the
natural gas fired plants were polluting their air, nothing specific, just that
the power plant was polluting their air.
There were not studies cited and no specific pollutants, they just made
the statement that their air was being polluted. Since they made the statement, they expect
people to accept their assumption/opinion as being fact.
Natural
gas fired power plants are probably one of the cleanest sources of energy and possibly
a great benefit to the environment. Outside
of carbon dioxide and water vapor, a gas fired plant has almost no emissions or
particulates.
Water
vapor is harmless and carbon dioxide is beneficial to plants. As we need oxygen to breathe, plants need
carbon dioxide to breathe. Plants inhale
carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen.
Talking
to a farm manager few years ago, he mentioned that to stimulate plant growth in
the greenhouse to would add carbon dioxide.
For the richer the air was in carbon dioxide, faster the plant grew and
the healthier it grew.
So one can deduce from a statement like that, that
power plants enhance the environment. For
the richer the ambient air is in carbon dioxide, the better the plant growth
is. In support of this, I read about a
study done in Europe by various universities, that the world’s vegetation had
increased by 17% since the beginning of the industrial age, early 1800;s.
It would appear that the greenhouse gas is
actually beneficial to the environment. Because
as the world’s vegetation increased to did its food supply. With a growing population, the food supply
needs to grow along with number of people.
So the question is, is greenhouse gas bad for the
environment? In my opinion, I would say
greenhouse gasses are good for us. For
years, pundits have been saying we are going to perish because of the climate changes
brought about by greenhouse gas emissions.
With all of the alarmist statements over the past
50 years, the balance of gasses in the atmosphere has hardly varied.
Oh, I was a biology and chemistry major when I
started university. So what to do. Personally
not much, just don’t abuse things and have a good stewardship of the earth’s
resources.
