Dear individual,

Yup. I think that might be exactly what I said.

So point me to one you think qualifies.

SteeleRedux,
post the name of one reputable scientist in Earth science who has public papers that demonstrate CO2 harms the planet; and humans currently cause climate change other than by Earth previous natural history.

Farmers are currently pumping CO2 into the soil to promote growth because the soil is depleted in carbon. Soil respiration is a key ecosystem process that releases carbon from the soil in the form of carbon dioxide. Carbon is stored in the soil as organic matter and is respired by plants, bacteria, fungi and animals. When this respiration occurs below ground, it is considered soil respiration.

http://phys.org/news/2017-10-ingenious-approach-co2-soil.html

Josephus,
I notice you still haven't provided the source of your extraordinary claim about how much CO2 was released in the latest eruption in Bali.

Yesterday I criticised you for failing to comprehend the content of your hotlinks. Today I see another example of that. Farmers are NOT pumping CO2 into the soil, and doing so would NOT promote plant growth. What farmers are adding to the soil to promote plant growth is solid carbon (in the form of charcoal). Its role is similar to clay or to organic carbon in the soil - it makes nutrients available to plants. Some of those nutrients are in there to start with, but most are dissolved in the water in the soil until being adsorbed.

You seem to have a very poor understanding of what's occurring. Would I be correct in deducing that you don't understand the Greenhouse Effect or CO2's role in t?

View from a bloke who knows the Reef !

http://newsweekly.com.au/article.php?id=56720

Aidan, The Earth has had previous Green house effects caused by volcanoes. This resulted in our coal being formed.

Every volcanic eruption that occurs on planet Earth is full of pollutants. Not just ash and dust, mind you, but also carbon dioxide: one of the strongest greenhouse gases on our planet. In the largest cases, a single volcanic plume, lasting only hours, might add many millions of tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

Aidan & Josephus,

According to Wikipedia, "The chemical composition of wood varies from species to species, but is approximately 50% carbon, 42% oxygen, 6% hydrogen, 1% nitrogen, and 1% other elements (mainly calcium, potassium, sodium, magnesium, iron, and manganese) by weight.... Wood also contains sulfur, chlorine, silicon, phosphorus, and other elements in small quantity." [I'm presuming that means 50 % by weight.]

Wood is good, therefore so is CO2.

Look around you - wood is everywhere. Its growth depends on the availability of CO2: the more CO2 in the atmosphere, the more and quicker it is taken up. We breathe in oxygen and breathe out CO2 due to the processing of sugars etc. in our bodies (by liver and lungs). It's our friend.

Our Great Barrier Reef is mostly made up of fossilised coral. Coral is mostly calcium carbonate, CaCO3. Our Reef depends partly on the availability of CO2.

Surely we can grow vastly more trees, and process the ones we cut down more efficiently ? Win - win !

Joe