Originally Posted by
satchip
If by plant life you mean trees, there are more acres of forest land today than at the time of the Pilgrims.
How do you know how much forest land there was when people thought the earth was flat?
Sounds like a load of **** to me.
There's certainly not more forest land now days, you only have to look at the rate that trees are being chopped down in South America and Asia.
Originally Posted by
RogAir
Am I nitpicking or wrong (been a long time since High School science class)? Humans spew carbon dioxide, which plants breathe, plants spew oxygen, which humans breathe, and Fuel spits out carbon monoxide, which nothing breathes, and thus the problem...
That's why they invented catalytic converters, to convert the carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide. But that's not really the issue, the problem is more carbon dioxide is being produced than can be absorbed by the oceans/plant life/what ever else absorbs it.