It's known you hop over and brush everything aside unbecoming your well being feeling, David, but let me waste a bit more time and pass here a short excerpt on that fine feature of CO2 quantitativeness and what it does to plants and elevated mix.


emphasis mine.

There's particular mention of stomati, the ones you think have not changed in 4.5 billion years (though first plants have not come on land until about 475 million years ago, possibly less... read Adjustable valves gave ancient plants the edge ).

Surely it has escaped few about the beetle infestation in forests in North America, killing enormous acreages and then CO2 adding to frost sensitivity... all normal(?), those beetles survived due lack of the usual deep cold. Can tell you, we had snow down here starting Dec. 6, 2010 and it was lasting a week and it killed or severely damaged many evergreens here... the oldies here [one 87 man who shared recently that his parents were unfortunate to have been an-alphabetic] said they'd never seen this before. ''Food'' for thought!

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More wheat crops, sigh, and still missing the ''Nutritional'' part. Evolution continuing, the way humans are going in width and height and circumference, the Anthropocene era will end too, little creative thinking needed, we'll start to look like 2 legged elephants, with double wopper stomaches to extract what you need to stay alive. Do you know why a cow has 4 and has a nicely round frame? [some farmers in the UK got smart, they thought, fed their cow an optimized diet, sheep scrapies invested proteins and created CJD].

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Care to link to the original post? [hmmm could be in that removed thread] where you exclaimed ''hands off'' on some Genetic Modification angle that popped into the discussion.

As for the "intelligent DNA designer" I'm afraid we're fundamentally differing on origins, evolution and the invented ''Intelligent Design" story that was developed to slip that into US public school syllabus, since direct religious teaching in public schools was not allowed. No, humans are not too puny anymore at 7 billion and rising to have become an overpowering factor of all that is.

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One more thing before I'll take a break from argument, it not being constructive discussion where there's actual demonstrated uptake of any of many many lines of addetive evidence [Here's your chance]. I've got trouble fitting where you come from. We have the "hands off from stomata" exclaim and "Intelligent DNA Designer". Are you afraid that [puny] human can break, or is allowed to break what should then be unbreakable? What we do here at WCG is digging into the very essences of the workings of DNA, amino acid chains and more and trying to fix the DNA and immunity mechanisms that allow horrible flaws to exist such as AIDS, Cancer, Muscular Dystrophy, Dengue, Yellow Fever, Flu, Hepatitis C, anmd who knows one day Barth Syndrome [though only a few hundred are known to suffer the affliction due poor diagnosis], no price too high to have your child survive.

Personally, I think we are going to screw up at one point in time a grandiose way [accidentally or with intend] and then the history book on humanity known as species Homo Sapiens Sapiens will close the last chapter. It wont be Nuclear Power Plants or Nukes, that I'm as sure of as sure can be.

Nothing Rhymed (Gilbert O'Sullivan).

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So please, can you post the link to your original statement on stomata for a conclusive "I said, you said", and what according to you I'd like to stick on you?

Whatever these ''doesn't always get the right message across" means, I think there's whole lot of ''doesn't always'', in fact, the failed messages are growing... AIDS keeps on developing new armament to what we're hurling at it [perfecting itself]. Then there is the ever decreasing functioning of penicillin and hospitals fighting against resistant bugs, against which nothing works, short of flame throwers.



Beautiful design... Per evolution theory [Darwin had trouble himself through his last breath about his discoveries], the survival remains to work according to who/what is fittest for the offered in the local environment, leading to specialization. The return of trillions of tonnes of CO2 [not to speak of endless numbers of chemical fallout] through burning of fossil fuel ** is an overpowering the speed at which that adaptation can happen. Through the history of the planet we can identify at least 5 mass extinctions. we're working on number 6... call that a success?

Were watching a Belgian program on the origins of man and a trip to Ethiopia to investigate [the thought cradle of us all]. There was a woman who was asked what she believed and she said "well, Lucy was created and Man was created". [You must have heard of Lucy]. Well Lucy was rubbished... not good enough as predecessor some few million years ago. It would be an illusion to think that HSS would then not be rubbished too as overarching ''too successful'' epoch destroying all other things created. Going around wide eyed and think about what we had, or forward thinking on what needs to be kept, that's the question being asked... my answer is an unequivocal EVERYTHING. Now it's time for answers and solutions. Last time a global disaster happened, an estimated 18,500 humanoids survived... the probable explanation for the rather poor gene diversity of humanity... and simple to think that potatoes and rice have many more... 20,000 resp. 40,000 if remembering the numbers correctly... Both were recently fully decoded. Yes we can.

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** Stuck away for the most part during the Carboniferous.