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Sotapanno wrote:

You do not need to ask Helena about this - our earthly science already has the answers ...

CO2 is a toxic gas. Our human bodies are finely tuned and can handle only so much (I am talking about the the infamous 'safe levels').  Ever wondered why there are 'suddenly' so many children (and adults like my self) with asthma?  CO2 I can tell you from personal experience os one hell of a lung-destroyer. When here in Utah we get the 'inversion' - a weather pattern where cold air is stuck in the valley with warm air keeping it down - this causes the pollutants to accumulate dramatically - my lungs (and eyes) burn, making it harder to breathe.

CO2 is also the prime culprit in acid rain.
CO2 also plays a part in (natural) global warming.

Sotapanno

When You take a closer look to thing, far of manipulating mass media, You see that from a scientific view, the problem isn't obvious. There surely is a increased pollution of CO2. But I would say, over the past 30 years, the part of CO2 produced by traffic through automobiles and trucks is not as high as by, for example, the increased breath of human population, the increased industry in developing countries and the higher amount of eaten meat (Chinese people love meat). Especially the last thing is under view of the greenhouse effect much more evident than the traffic (methane!).

The described smog thematic causes a huge health problem. But this is, as far I know the illness You have, not connected to CO2. Surely to the traffic and its exhausts. But the unburnt particles are causeing the cough stimulus and the heavy metal pollution (catalyst) favour the auto immune (correct english?) reactions.

The acid problematic is the result of SO2 and NOx getting in contact with water. H2CO3 is the result of carbondioxide in reaction with water. It is very unstably and low acidly. Think of the bubbled water You can drink.

The biggest problem in CO2 I can see, is its high transformation rate. Means the adjustment nature shows, when we can see more fast growing plants. Algae in the water, lianes in the jungle. That would change planets flora if it would maintain for a long time.