What are two of the dirtiest words in the English language?

Well, if you're concerned with global warming as so many people are these days, the answer

is obvious.

The two words are carbon dioxide.

Or as it is known by its chemical symbol CO2, one atom of carbon and two atoms of oxygen.

If we pump much more of it into the atmosphere, the argument goes, we're going to alter the

climate.

Catastrophically, according to the intergovernmental panel on climate change, the IPCC, CO2 emissions

from fossil fuels, which constitute 85% of our energy use, must be reduced to zero by

2100.

If we don't save ourselves from ourselves, we're toast.

That's the claim.

Here's what's strange though.

Carbon life is carbon-based, and the carbon for all that life originates from carbon dioxide

in the atmosphere.

All of the carbon in the fossil fuels we are burning for energy today was once in the atmosphere,

as carbon dioxide, before it was consumed by plankton in the sea and plants on the land.

Coal, oil, and natural gas are the remains of those plankton and plants that have been

transformed by heat and pressure deep in the Earth's crust.

In other words, fossil fuels are 100% organic and were produced with solar energy, sounds

positively green.

If there were no carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, the Earth would be a dead planet,

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