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Rising CO2 Levels May Trigger Cognitive Impairment, Says New Study

12 pointsby conse_ladabout 5 years ago

3 comments

perl4everabout 5 years ago
I was having some symptoms that I couldn&#x27;t identify a cause of, and after a friend mentioned it, I got an indoor CO2 monitor (to accompany my CO monitor), and what it shows is interesting albeit inconclusive.<p>On a daily basis, it shows lows of maybe 400 ppm, which is similar to outdoors. Usually it shows highs of maybe 1000 ppm overnight, which I think is from exhalation, unless it&#x27;s my furnace. But sometimes it gets up to 1500-2000 ppm, which seems kind of high, and makes me wonder what the cause is or if there are any health effects.<p>For a while, I thought that the high levels were causing headaches and mental impairment, but the correlation seems to have broken down, so maybe it was just a coincidence.<p>Anyway, I think that realistically, direct health effects of CO2 are not going to be the most relevant aspect of climate change, since people generally do tolerate living indoors.
paypalcust83about 5 years ago
<i>There is absolutely no air shortage whatsoever.</i><p>(Discretely opens a can of Perri-air.)
jeffrallenabout 5 years ago
Idiocracy.<p>(which my auto correct promptly changed to democracy... He he....)