Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "'What Percent Of Our Atmosphere Is CO2?': Doug LaMalfa Stumps Entire Panel With Climate Questions" video.

I that would've been a great response, telling them that at 5% it becomes a legitimate medical problem, and that at 7% like she suggested, it can be fatal.
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Exactly. It's amazing how often I want to learn about a contentious subject, and very early on it becomes clear that people who absolutely should know the fundamentals of a problem, don't. You see incorrect statement after incorrect statement, and the people don't get called out for it even though it takes a complete layman like me five minutes to find the data right from the governments on website.
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I like comment sections because if you read enough, you get different intelligent perspectives. A few people in the comments have talked about the percentages, and whether the effects of CO2 are logarithmic and blah blah blah. My main take away is that this is a complicated subject and nobody in that room had a really good grasp of it, ha ha. It's incredible to me that after decades of hearing about climate change, the absolute basics are known by so very few. On one hand, you have the alarmists who keep making dire predictions that don't even come close to coming true. Giant red flag. And on the other hand, you have people fighting those alarmists who also don't have a very good grasp of things. Are plants die at 0.2, and we have gone to 0.4. But how much activity does it take to move that needle? You hear answers that are all over the map. The experts, don't agree on how much of an impact humans have. At all. Different experts, have estimates that vary from double to triple and more. That's not a consensus. Even worse is you will see people citing some Scientific paper, yet someone else can do a deep dive into that paper, and expose how the sentiment given about that paper was the complete opposite of what it said in the paper. It's so unbelievably hard to find out about this stuff. I hear incredibly compelling evidence on both sides and it's really frustrating.
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Thank you! It's like the expression "everything is toxic to humans, it's just a matter of dosage"
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I came away mildly irritated at both sides. I don't like when people give numbers in isolation. There are tiny little frogs that have enough poison to kill tremendous amounts of adult humans. The dosage it takes is ultra tiny. The harm that a dose equivalent to a single grain of salt can cause is super huge, yet would sound insignificant if you compared it to salt. It would give the wrong impression.
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But the poison from a poison dart frog will.
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To be fair, they aren't saying that we should reduce the amount of CO2. 200 years ago plants were thriving just fine. They are not suggesting we go below those levels. They are saying we should not increase the level of CO2.
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The question is not meaningless. We see hard-core climate activists, who wouldn't be able to answer that same question. Over and over we see people who are in positions of power not being able to answer very basic questions about the subject they have a level of power and control over. I don't care what the subject is, it's ridiculous. It's no different than when some tea party Republican is shouting about somebody violating the Constitution, then when asked what specific part of the constitution they're violating, they can't answer.
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I disagree. If they don't have a clue how much there is, then they can't have an accurate understanding of what a difference in magnitude would mean. Going from 2 to 3 percent is a 50% increase. Going from 50 to 51 is a 2% increase. If the extent of their knowledge is that "It's like, going way up 'n stuff" means nothing. @throckmortensnivel2850
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@senseofthecommonman obvious? There are a lot of things in this world that are extraordinarily toxic, things where that much of a dose could kill a tremendous amount of adults. The overall concentration of something only matters in direct relation to how potent it is.
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There is a "protest". Every four years, and every adult can participate.
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@senseofthecommonman LMAO. Great point. Nothing makes me chuckle quite like somebody getting indignant and calling other people stupid when they themselves are dead wrong.
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