CO2 is Plant Food, not Pollution

[JRS]

NASA
the last two decades of the twentieth century were a good time to be a plant on planet Earth. In many parts of the global garden, the climate grew warmer, wetter, and sunnier, and despite a few El Niño-related setbacks, plants flourished for the most part.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Global...

Scores of laboratory and field studies show that higher CO2 concentrations help most plants grow faster, stronger, and more profusely, utilize water more efficiently, and resist pollution and other environmental stresses.[102] Needless to say, all animals directly or indirectly depend on plants as a food source.

Based on numerous empirical studies, the 100ppm increase in atmospheric CO2 content over the past 150 years has increased mean crop yields by the following amounts:
wheat, 60 percent;
other C3 cereals, 70 percent;
C4 cereals, 28 percent;
fruits and melons, 33 percent;
legumes, 62
percent; root and tuber crops, 67 percent;
and vegetables, 51 percent.[103]

Were it not for the extra CO2 put into the atmosphere by fossil fuel combustion, either many people now living would not exist, or many forests now standing would have been cleared and turned into farmland—or both. CO2 emissions are literally greening the planet, enhancing biodiversity and global food availability. Continuing CO2 enrichment of the atmosphere will be necessary to feed a global population expected to increase by 3.3 billion over the next 50 years—and limit pressures to convert forests and wetlands into cropland.[104]

http://www.cei.org/pdf/4286.pdf

Just google CO2 is plant food
http://www.google.com/search...

[JRS]

ps when youn look at a tree or other plant you are looking at the CO2 that WAS in the air.

"When scientists talk about productivity they are specifically talking about how much carbon ends up stored in the living biomass—roots, trunks, and leaves of plants"

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Global...

[Waz]

If the extra CO2 thats indisputably in the atmosphere was so good for plants the price of grain would be going down correct?

[The Truth Matters]

Waz wrote:

If the extra CO2 thats indisputably in the atmosphere was so good for plants the price of grain would be going down correct?

Not when world demand is up and food crops [and cropland] are being mandated for fuel production.