>>13683969>was Vice Chairman of the American oil and gas company Burlington Resources, Inc. until his retirement in 2000.>According to his profile at EOG Resources (formerly Enron Oil and Gas Company) where he is a director, Steward has extensive experience in the oil and gas exploration and production industry and has also worked with The Louisiana Land and Exploration Company as President, Chief Operating Officer and, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer from 1989 until its acquisition by Burlington Resources Inc.What a coincidence...
Basically all of his arguments are non sequiturs:
>Trying to debunk theories that higher CO2 levels cause warming, he cites studies that show CO2 levels following temperature spikesYes, CO2 followed temperature spikes in the past when CO2 was not the initiating cause. This doesn't mean CO2 cannot be the initiating cause. CO2 increase preceded current warming.
>Worse, if CO2 levels are cut, he warns, food production will slow because plants grown at higher CO2 levels make larger fruit and vegetables and also use less water.This is only true for certain kinds of crops, bigger doesn't mean it has equal nutritional density, and he compleyely ignores the negative effect of warmer temperatures and droughts on agriculture.
>He also said that higher CO2 levels are not harmful to humans. As an example, he said that Earth's atmosphere currently has about 338 parts per million of CO2 and that in Navy subs, the danger level for carbon dioxide isn't reached until the air has 8,000 parts per million of CO2.Higher CO2 levels are harmful by causing rapid climate change, not by suffocating people. Is he really this dumb?