Comments by "" (@DegreesOfThree) on "How much land does it take to power the world?" video.

I'm glad Ted Ed agrees fossil fuels are the only viable option.
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Calling plant food a dangerous greenhouse gas is not maintaining neutrality. It's hardcore propaganda and demonstrably absurd.
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@kuro13wolf Periods go inside the quotation marks, smart guy. Are you disputing that CO2 is plant food?
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@kuro13wolf CO2 doesn't contribute any nutrients to plants? What are you smoking? CO2 is the PRIMARY nutrient. Without it, there would be no life on earth.
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@kennethferland5579 Carbon, hydrogen and oxygen make up the vast majority of plant and animal cells. I maintain that CO2 is the PRIMARY nutrient, because of the photosynthesis equation. Of course chlorophyll and light are required to complete the reaction, just like an engine is required to convert gasoline back into CO2. But chlorophyll and light are not nutrients, because they are not used up during the reaction. Yes, technically some life could exist without CO2, but if you are relying on chemotrophs to produce your food, you're going to be very hungry. I'm glad you brought up limiting factors like temperature. How many more plants and forests could the Earth sustain if the temperature was 10 degrees warmer and all of Canada and Siberia and Greenland and Antarctica was available for farmland? What makes you think you know what the exact temperature of earth should be in the first place? Why should we tolerate any ice, when all ice began as water in the first place and we're still in the process of coming out of the last ice age? The idea that the Earth is a greenhouse is ridiculous. There is no glass enclosure. We lose atmosphere to space all the time. Do you even know how miniscule the percentage of CO2 is in the atmosphere? Fox News is a joke just like the liberal outlets. Don't make assumptions about my politics, just because you don't like inconvenient facts.
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@kennethferland5579 You said, 'In the real world, climate change is driving changes in rainfall and temperature which will actually be limiting factors for most plants in most places.' Number one, I've never disputed that the climate changes. The climate has always been changing and always will. If you're claiming that a .01% rise in CO2 over 200 years is causing a different climate than we otherwise would have had, then I'd like to see your evidence. Please tell me exactly what the temperature would be if humans never discovered fossil fuels. You have no idea. Global temperatures were falling from about 1940 to 1980 and the hottest years in America on record were in the 1930s. Global food production has skyrocketed over the last hundred years and plants are growing faster now according to agriculture experts at every major university. Where is your evidence that agricultural yields have been declining? That's literally insane.
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@kkmac7247 It's not an inverted comma; it's a single quotation mark. Periods go inside of quotation marks. Open literally any book to verify that.
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50 billion tons of greenhouse gas sounds like a lot to a five year old that doesn't realize how insignificant that number is compared to the total volume of atmosphere.
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@camfahn7332 Solar output is not a fixed value. How did you account for that? The Earth is not covered in glass. We lose atmosphere to space all the time. Any comparison to a greenhouse is completely absurd. Furthermore, there has never been an experiment showing that the temperature of a greenhouse can be changed by altering the CO2 concentration by .01%. Please show me a time in history when there were no adverse climactic Events on Earth. And who gets to decide what the ideal temperature should be? Half of the arable land in the world is too cold to farm. I could just as easily argue we would be much better off if temperatures were higher. You're not engaging in science, but merely regurgitating What You've Been Told.
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What catastrophes are you talking about? Category 3+ hurricanes have been declining ever since the 1930s.
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Renewable energy is nowhere close to being economically viable. Hence, the need for endless propaganda to justify carbon taxes to make renewables more competitive.
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@earthling_parth Here's a good joke... Bill Gates wants you to eat bugs and have no car or air conditioning, while he cruises around in his collection of sports cars, yachts, and private jets. Isn't that hilarious?
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