Climate variables, energy constants Tom King (“Energy sense”, Letters, News Weekly, June 3, 2017) seems to believe that, instead of recycling the carbon dioxide we produce back to the atmosphere where it originally came from, we should hide it away, thus preventing plants from accessing it and using it to grow faster and to better resist drought. This is clearly not in our interest. The idea that a trace gas in the atmosphere, amounting to 0.04 per cent, less than 1/20th of the amo…
