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An email making the rounds:

For all of you out there across the globe who have fought so hard to tackle the hideous enemy of our planet, namely carbon emissions, that bogus god you worship named "Climate Change" or "Global Warming", there is some really bad news that will be very painful for you to process.

The current volcanic eruption going on in Iceland, since it first started spewing volcanic ash, has, to this point, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet. Not only that, this single act of God has added emissions to the earth estimated to be 42 times more than can be corrected by the extreme human regulations proposed for annual reductions.

It's very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up til midnight to finish your kid's "The Green Revolution" science project, throwing out all of your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your Landcruiser and speedboat, going on vacation to a city park instead of overseas, nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your $1 light bulbs with $10 light bulbs ...well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just the past week. The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth's atmosphere in the past weeks has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast carbon. And, those thousands of jobs you helped move to Asia with expensive emissions demands on businesses...you know, the ones that are creating even more emissions than when they were creating our jobs, well that must seem really worthwhile now. And I do wish that there was some kind of silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud but the fact of the matter is that the bush fire season across the western U.S.A. will start in about 2 months and those fires will negate your efforts to reduce carbon emissions in our world for the next 2 years.

So, grab a beer, give the world a hug, and have nice day!

“Isolated for 42 days in chambers of ambient and elevated CO2 concentrations, we periodically document the growth of cowpea plants (Vigna unguiculata) via time-lapse photography.”

There is debate about whether germination rates are positively affected by CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. However, there’s no doubt that higher temperatures and moist conditions have a significant positive effect on the germination process.

As temperatures rise, water evaporates causing a cooling effect at ground level. The more humidity in the air, the more likely it will rain.

But what about that nasty, awful water vapour? Isn’t it about 5 times the greenhouse gas that CO2 is? Yup. But without it we don’t get rain. Without rain, well…

Regardless, everybody knows that moist, warm conditions are ideal for plant life, don’t they?

Maybe not.

Due to media hypnosis resulting in mass hysteria and psychotic obsession, the general public has become oblivious towards everything non-CO2, including non-eco friendly toxins. These comparatively non-important toxins have killed at least a third of the honey bee colonies in North America this past winter. Doesn't seem to raise an eyebrow that a third of everything we eat depends on honey bee pollination.

While we’re on the topic, what about the solar minimum and maximum? Given that we're talking about climate change, surely the sun should come into play somehow, no?

How about the 150,000 to 300,000 tons per day of CO2 emissions the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano just spewed into the atmosphere? Somebody should be taxed for that.

Lets hear it for a volcano tax, shall we?

The insane hype about CO2 is a major distraction and tax fraud mechanism. We’ve been duped.

Of course, that's just my uneducated "denier" opinion.