Did Al Gore pull one over on us?

Everyone loves a good end of the world story, me especially.

Bear in mind, this is my own theory.

I learned something from a certain friend, who has a secret herb garden growing in his closet--plants love CO2. It's as though CO2 acts as a plant steroid. The more sunlight, nutrients, and CO2 they get, the more they photosynthesize, the faster they grow, the happier the plant.

So, Al Gore made his An Inconvenient Truth documentary about the catastrophic effects we're creating from all the CO2 emissions, but nowhere in his documentary was there anything mentioned about how much plants love CO2. Nowhere, in his documentary did he say how the plant will react to more CO2 in the environment. The assumption was that plants would be overwhelmed with too much CO2 and would not be able to absorb more of it, and CO2 would just keep stacking up.

I find it interesting that everyone just bought this theory without really looking too far beyond it. It seems highly plausible that there is more CO2 in the atmosphere, but if plants are just passively absorbing as much CO2 as what comes there way, maybe we ought not start building the arcs just yet.

Something else to consider: The sun isn't like a thermostat where it is set at a specific temperature. It's a giant fusion reactor that ebbs and flows. A few scientists have said the sun has been going through a more active period, and that could be one the reasons things have been melting.

Anyway, I'm learning to take the things scientists a little less seriously.

And, I'm also thinking, we should start considering that fertilizing vast areas so that plants can process more CO2 more readily might be a good idea.