My take on Carbon emissions.

A person breaths in oxygen and exhales carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is an end product in organisms that obtain energy from breaking down sugars, fats and amino acids with oxygen as part of their metabolism, in a process known as cellular respiration. This includes all plants, animals, many fungi and some bacteria. In higher animals, the carbon dioxide travels in the blood from the body's tissues to the lungs where it is exhaled. In plants using photosynthesis, carbon dioxide is absorbed from the atmosphere.


Plants remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by photosynthesis, also called carbon assimilation, which uses light energy to produce organic compounds (cellulose, lipids, and various proteins) by combining carbon dioxide and water. Free oxygen is released as gas from the decomposition of water molecules, while the hydrogen is split into its protons and electrons and used to generate chemical energy via photophosphorylation. This energy is required for the fixation of carbon dioxide in the Calvin cycle to make 3-phosphoglycerate that is used in metabolism, to construct sugars that can be used as an energy source within the plant through respiration and as the raw material for the construction of more complex organic molecules, such as polysaccharides, nucleic acids and proteins during growth.

So reducing our carbon foot prints would be a bad thing. In the cycle of things all living things depend on our being able to take in rich oxygen from the atmosphere and breathing out the carbon dioxide that makes living plants grow which in turn create oxygen and sustains all life. Its a good thing and it has been going on since the beginning of time. Wasn't God brilliant. Drop the carbon dioxide level even a little and it would be toxic for plants, thus being very very bad for humans. Increase the carbon dioxide level and it is toxic to animal life, also very bad for us.

So the point I am trying to make. I don't need to store my carbon footprints, buy any carbon footprints, watch my carbon credits or any of the other wacko things "I want to get richer Al Gore" is trying to shove down our throats. Simple fact....we breath, we exhale, plants breath, they exhale. O2 to CO2 and back to O2. Its a good thing baby. Go jump in a lake Al.