By Selwyn Duke

Do you want to save the planet? Fire up the SUV this holiday weekend
and go for a pleasure ride; burn some more coal in your barbecue grill;
crank up the house’s AC; and, generally, aspire to a Paul Bunyan-size
carbon footprint. Because according to astrobiologist Jack
O’Malley-James speaking at the National Astronomy meeting at the
University of St. Andrews in Scotland, life on Earth will suffer a
carbon-dioxide-related extinction. But contrary to popular-culture
belief, the problem will be too little of the naturally occurring gas.

It probably won’t ruin any of your plans, as this fate awaits us
nearly billion years down the geological road, but the process by which
life may end is rather simple. The Daily Mail reports:

[A]s the Sun ages and grows hotter,
greater evaporation and chemical reactions with rainwater will take away
more and more carbon dioxide.

In less than a billion years, its levels
will be too low for photosynthesising plants to survive, say scientists.
When that happens, life as we know it on Earth will cease to exist.

With the loss of plants, herbivorous animals will also die out, as well as the carnivores that prey on them.

At this point microbes will rule the Earth, though their days in the
sun — pun intended — will likewise end. As the sun grows even hotter,
the oceans will evaporate, making the planet inhospitable to all but the
sturdiest micro-organisms. “Any remaining life will be restricted to
pockets of liquid water, perhaps at cooler, higher altitudes or in caves
underground,” says O’Malley-James.

While it’s probably hard to forecast weather for 1,000,002,013 A.D., many experts have pointed out that CO₂
needs to hire a PR team, misunderstood and maligned as it is by
global-warming proponents. For instance, Mike Adams of Natural News asks, “If CO₂ is so bad for the planet, why do greenhouses pay to produce it?” He then offers the answer:

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