I'm getting fat and I know why....

[DimPrawn]

'CO2 in the atmosphere is making us all fatter': Researcher says we are increasing in size as gas levels go up | Mail Online


You 4x4 driving ****ers, please walk.



Anyway, back to my roast hog dinner.

Thanks for listening.

[TimberWolf]

Are you sure they aren't talking about vegetables?

[BrilloPad]

Are you sure eat all those lardy butties haven't caused it?

[ZuiderZee]

Are you sure they aren't talking about vegetables?

Wot. Churchy and Zoid you mean?

[DimPrawn]

Are you sure eat all those lardy butties haven't caused it?

No and it isn't the bottle of wine and five packets of pork scratching either.


IT'S FOOKING CARBON 'INNIT.

[TimberWolf]

Is there an atmospheric gases trends chart? All I seem to be able to find in my 1 second search just now was on carbon dioxide and other evil gases. I was wondering what oxygen levels were doing, whether plants were dining on the extra CO2.

[pjclarke]

Blimey - a serious question.

O2 Dropping Faster than CO2 Rising

While CO2 has increased a lot in percentage terms - up by circa 30%, it is still pretty much a trace gas at around 390ppm so in absolute terms not a big change - and insufficient for a noticiable increase in plant productivity.

Ocean acidification though - now that's a different story.

[TimberWolf]

New research shows oxygen depletion in the atmosphere accelerating since 2003, coinciding with the biofuels boom; climate policies that focus exclusively on carbon sequestration could be disastrous for all oxygen-breathing organisms including humans...Reductionist accounting for CO2 alone is insufficient, and even grossly misleading and dangerous.

Oh dear™

[EternalOptimist]

more scare stories.

I like this one

“At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
• Kenneth Watt, Ecologist 1970

[wim121]

more scare stories.

Indeed EO.

Every time someone opens their trap on gasses in the air, I chuckle as they don't seem to understand what air is composed of, how it is mostly nitrogen and carbon dioxide is almost a trace gas.