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Originally Posted by Chewbacca
Of course Carbon Dioxide is a pollutant. Pollution by definition is stuff put into the enviroment by humans.
Given human track record with pollution it seems highly foolish to give any benefits of doubt when it comes to our emissions.
Study until we know and don't give up until we do seems prudent.
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pol·lu·tion /pəˈluʃən/ Show Spelled[puh-loo-shuhn] noun
1. the act of polluting or the state of being polluted.
2. the introduction of harmful substances or products into the environment: air pollution.
pol·lu·tant /pəˈlutnt/ Show Spelled[puh-loot-nt] noun
1. something that pollutes.
2. any substance, as certain chemicals or waste products, that renders the air, soil, water, or other natural resource harmful or unsuitable for a specific purpose.
pol·lute /pəˈlut/ Show Spelled[puh-loot]
verb (used with object), -lut·ed, -lut·ing.
1. to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
2. to make morally unclean; defile.
3. to render ceremonially impure; desecrate: to pollute a house of worship.
4. Informal . to render less effective or efficient: The use of inferior equipment has polluted the company's service
by diffinition making foul, or unclean, rendering unsuitable.... man made CO2 doesn't render anything unsuitable, the numbers just aren't there. At best maybe 1% or so of the CO2 can be atributed to man. That means 99% comes from nature. Nature has a way of taking care of CO2: Plants. Plants take in CO2 seperate the Carbon from the Oxygen combine the Carbon with the water and other elements their roots suck up from the ground and make more plant matter. Higher CO2 levels the more plants that grow the more plant matterial made, the more CO2 locked up in the plants. Rotting plants give off more CO2 then anything man can even hope to ever give off. Decay is slow oxygenation of the carbon locked in the plants, burning is fast oxygenation. (chemistry and biology 101)