If you think CO2 isn't causing the current global warming, would you drink water containing 387 ppm arsenic?

Question

There are 2 common arguments that CO2 can't be causing the current global warming. The entire arguments are that

1) CO2 can't be causing the current warming because it only comprises 387 parts per million (ppm) of our atmosphere, or 0.00387%. Surely at such low concentrations it can't be causing the current warming.

2) CO2 can't be dangerous or a pollutant because it's 'plant food.'

Well, some plants eat arsenic:

http://www.physorg.com/news64159534.html

And the scientific consensus is that arsenic is toxic at 10 parts per billion (ppb), or 0.0000001%.

http://www.news-medical.net/?id=5058

But I'm sure it's just a hoax. Nothing can be dangerous at such low levels.

So I ask the anthropogenic global warming doubters - if I gave you a glass of water containing the same concentration of arsenic as the atmosphere contains CO2 (387 ppm), would you drink it?

If not, will you accept that CO2 *might* be causing the current warming?

Neo Pirate - you are both wrong and did not answer my question. Double thumbs-down!

netjr - same thing, double thumbs-down. Are global warming deniers incapable of answering a simple question?

Not a single person has answered my question. Changing the subject is a pretty pathetic way of avoiding answering a question.

I'll just assume that none of you will use this '387 ppm is too low' argument anymore.

Answer 1

i am sure they would be much more willing to do so...if you would only compromise and mix it in with their kool-aid for them....

Answer 2

No I think however that Navy will beat Army this year and that will prove global warming is not real.

See I too can take two subjects and connect them and make no sense.

We have about 30 years of data for world temperatures.

We can't even predict next weeks weather with better than 60% accuracy.

Now the world has been around millions years and you factor in how well we are at predicting weather hopefully you can see why I have doubts.

That man made gobal warming shouldn't be question.

When I see Al Gore's movie is not being question by those of science.

Remember the great hurrican season after Katernia and they say it would wipe us out and we got nothing.
To which they said no this year we be wipe out still nothing.

I am willing to accpet might be a possible reason for change as soon as you accept that all the planets are now heating up too.

I am just not given enough proof that I am going to live in a cave while Al Gore and the rest fly in jets and live in big whomping homes.

Answer 3

If something, this question is probable to reason human beings to end than 387 ppm of CO2 has no courting to international warming. Toxicity of inorganic components and compounds is surely a function of bioaccumulation. because of the fact the ambience isn't a organic and organic organism, it does not bioaccumulate CO2 in a fashion that would desire to focus CO2 to three meant poisonous point. consequently, analogizing the introduction of an inorganic poison into an organism to the introduction of a gas into the ambience is so preposterous as to make human beings doubt the different, greater available, arguments that CO2 would have something to do with international warming.

Answer 4

You made a good attemptt at making a point, and I'm sure you tried real hard, but you blew it dude. You should stick to simplicity, because you are not good at explaining what is on your mind. No, people would not drink water with lethal doses of arsenic in it. You need to do more research about CO2 as well. CO2 is not "Causing" global warming. It is one of many things that make up the whole picture of global warming. It's cool that you are making an attemp to understand the dire situation the planet is in, but mis-information is as bad as ignorance.

Answer 5

I'll categorize this under "junk science". See, this is the simple minded thinking that gets all the far lefties going. Lets compare two completely different substances as if they were the same in effect and or power to get the answer I want and then consider it to be factual. What???

That's like saying... you are scheduled for surgery... usually we would use a scalpel to cut you open... but a chainsaw cuts stuff too.... so, which one would you like to go with? The scalpel??? See how bad chainsaws are? We should ban them.

Follow this logic. I am sure you, as I do, believe that the earth is a living thing. Mother earth produces many things for its inhabitants. Now... she also creates these harmful gases as well. Swamps produce massive amounts of these gases as well as volcanos and even some of here furry creatures. Knowing this, is mother earth trying to kill herself?

Answer 6

So now global warming is caused by arsenic? If you want to scare us with made up facts, can't you people at least stay with the same story.

Answer 7

There are multiple complex causes for global warming and

cooling and arsenic has nothing to so with either!

Answer 8

So now the religion of global warming is convinced that arsenic and CO2 are one in the same - shocking.

Answer 9

PhD in Junk Science, right? Did you get it from Cal Berkeley? The only plant that I know of that "eats" anything, loosely speaking, is the Venus Fly Trap. "Anthropogenic" was in your Reader's Digest Vocabulary lesson, wasn't it?

Answer 10

Didn't Applewhite and his Heaven's Gate followers also drink a poisonous potation?

It's not too late to get away from the Goregelicans

Answer 11

The warming is CAUSING CO2 increases, not the other way around