It goes without saying, but must be said anyway, that Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is the fundamental building block of all life. Every atom of carbon in your body (we are all carbon-based lifeforms) was once atmospheric CO2. Every molecule of Oxygen (O2) that you breathe (without which we would rapidly expire) was once atmospheric CO2.
The way life works is this: green plants (and algae) take in atmospheric CO2 and via photosynthesis turn it into plant sugars and free O2. Sunlight and water are also required for photosynthesis. Complex proteins including RuBisCO (see here) catalyze the reactions that capture CO2 and fix it into plant food. Green plants are the foundational base, the first link in the Food Chain. All animals ultimately rely on green plants for food. That includes fish and people. Even carnivores that never eat plants must consume animals that do eat plants.
Thus CO2 is the fundamental, essential, indispensable, crucial, all important substance for Life. Without CO2 there would be no life. Planet Earth would be a dead planet. Everybody with just a minuscule education knows this. Every scientist, whom we must assume has more than a minuscule education, knows this. It’s a fact if ever a fact there was.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has declared CO2 a “pollutant”. Ditto the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC). Scads of politicians, lobbyists, Big Media morons, and general idiots are bugged out of their minds about CO2. They want to eliminate it, despite the FACT that life depends utterly on CO2. How’s that for crazy? It’s worse than crazy, however. It’s deadly stupid. These ignorant savages want to eliminate Life Itself. That’s ABSOLUTE EVIL with all caps.
The normal amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has been between 1,000 and 4,000 parts per million (ppm) for more than 500 million years — the entire Phanerozoic Eon, the Eon of Life, from the first emergence of complex plants and animals until and including now. Today the CO2 concentration is ~400 ppm, one tenth of former levels.
During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) 26,500-19,000 years ago, the CO2 concentration dipped to ~180 ppm. Life Itself was threatened by such a low level. Plants were stressed to absorb enough CO2 to live and grow. The entire Pleistocene Epoch (the last 2.6 million years) has been one of diminished CO2 and concurrently mass extinctions. Life Itself has been stressed.
CO2 is necessary for life to exist. Robbing the atmosphere of CO2 is tantamount to ending life on this planet, which is so far as we know is the only planet in the Universe which contains abundant, complex life. Maybe there is life elsewhere—we have never detected it—but if there is it must certainly depend on CO2 and photosynthesis. That’s the only kind of life we have ever known.
Yet terribly misguided people want to eliminate CO2. Zero Carbon is the mantra. Major research agencies, universities, and corporations seek funding to “scrub” the atmosphere of CO2. Haughty and hubristic government leaders around the world use public treasuries to pay for this research. They openly desire to implement these Final Solutions. The world has truly gone mad.
The EPA, IPCC, and other authoritarians rely on (quacky and bogus) climate models that predict rising global temperatures due to CO2. It is, they say, a Green House Gas (GHG), and the more CO2 there is in the atmosphere the warmer the Earth is supposed to become. One sorry degree of global warmth increase is allegedly (by AOC, Gore, and others) going to destroy Earth. Fear the Hotpocalypse! We only have hours to panic before Thermageddon strikes!
This alarmism is incredibly ignorant. We live in the Pleistocene Epoch, a.k.a. the Ice Ages. There have been at least 18 major glacial stadials in the Pleistocene, times when continental ice sheets have covered much of the Northern Hemisphere. Not since the Permian Epoch of 240 million years ago has Planet Earth been this cold. During all the Epochs following the Permian, save our own, Planet Earth has been 5 to 12 C warmer. The normative temperature for this planet is much warmer than today.
Life prefers warmth. Warmer is Better for living things. The most abundant life, with the greatest productivity and diversity of plants and animals, is near the Equator. The least is near the poles, and in the case of Antarctica an entire continent is entirely lifeless. A warmer planet would have longer growing seasons, more rain, more bio-productivity, and more agricultural productivity. Deserts would bloom. Life would burgeon, as it did in prior Epochs when the Earth was warmer.
The warmest period in geologic history was the Paleocene from 66 to 56 million years ago. It is speculated that the globe was 12C warmer than today. Instead of living things burning up and the seas boiling into outer space, the Paleocene was the Dawn of the Mammals. There were polar forests. The tropics were rich with new plant and animal genera, the forebears of today’s species. The Angiosperms (flowering plants) displaced the conifers and became dominant. Insects that pollinated the flowers also diversified. Birds, evolved from the extinct dinosaurs, flourished. The warmest Epoch in geologic history was the most life-abundant.
The CO2 Will Warm Us To Death Theory is total crackpottery. All of geologic history refutes it.
The CO2 fear mongers have ulterior motives. They promote irrational, a-historical, unscientific fears for a reason. They are authoritarians and totalitarians. They reject the notion of human freedom. They seek control of speech, thought, and action (climate alarmism is not their only political weapon, but total control is their sole goal). They are power-mad thieves. They want to tax you to death. This is not a new phenomenon. Authoritarians have inflicted major damage to humanity throughout history and especially over the last 100+ years, which included two World Wars, hundreds of millions murdered, and the enslavement of billions of people. The misery, suffering, and death caused by this ilk is writ large in recent history. Nowhere and never have authoritarians and totalitarians benefited humanity. Just the opposite — their record is horrific and catastrophic beyond belief.
Authoritarians need lackeys and minions. Caesar and Napoleon did not stand alone. Hitler and Stalin had loyal soldiers, too. Modern authoritarians of the Great CO2 Hoax have armies of willing servants who desire riches and security. We live in a Golden Age and wealth is the most sought after life goal. The lackeys of today’s authoritarians do it for the money and eagerly sell their integrity. They want a piece of the scam action. Others are brainwashed and have succumbed to the climate propaganda — which is deliberately fashioned for simpletons. The power-mad have the upper hand. Freedom and clear thinking are rare commodities today.
The climate authoritarians and totalitarians seek to deprive the planet of CO2, the single most important substance of Life. They claim they will thereby prevent global warming.
But Warmer Is Better. It’s better for food, clothing, and shelter. Almost all our food crops and livestock are tropical in origin. Clothing is cheap in warm climes, and shelter is, too. Only in cold climates are thick clothes and insulated structures necessary for human survival. And all of us, people, plants, and animals, need CO2 for our very existence everywhere on Planet Earth. If increasing CO2 would warm the planet (extremely doubtful), then we should do it. If Life Itself is desirable, and it self-obviously is, then increasing CO2 is the best way to ensure and sustain the survival of plants, animals, and humans.
In their quest for power and money the authoritarians and totalitarians seek to eliminate CO2 from our atmosphere. It may be a scam to justify world domination and mass enslavement, but if their plans are acceded to, they will generate the Decarbocalypse: the End of Life on Planet Earth. Their madness has escalated beyond genocide and total war to the death of our planet. Instead of “saving the environment”, they will kill us all and the rest of nature to boot.
The climate Caesars must be stopped. There is no coming back from the Total Global Bio Extinction the authoritarians and totalitarians are forcing upon us. The situation is dire, more dire than ever in human history. Planet Earth and Life Itself are endangered. We must act now to overthrow the insane CO2 tyrants before it is too late. Resistance is vital and essential. Acquiescence will lead to global biocide.
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Nice try but no one gives a damn. This could be stopped, IT IS NOT STOPPED, THEREFORE, PEOPLE WANT THIS. Why is it so hard to understand that if people do not stop something, THEY WANT IT?????????
Even the ubiquitous carbon dioxide molecule has been forced to become Woke by the internet “science” experts at Shutterstock
( https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/carbon-dioxide-co2-molecule-models-chemical-1498543223 )
The new Woke version of the carbon dioxide molecule has two carbon atoms and one oxygen atom (instead of two O atoms and one C atom), it is a “V” shaped molecule (instead of being linear), and it has two single C to O bonds (instead of double bonds). A google search (CO2 molecule structure images) shows a very high percentage of woke non-linear carbon dioxide molecules. Sophistry, politics, and propaganda makes anything possible these days.
Mother Gaia Gone Wild – https://frsmith.blogspot.com/2021/04/mother-gaia-gone-wild.html
Sheri wrote, “Why is it so hard to understand that if people do not stop something, THEY WANT IT?????????” Well, the machine (media, education, academia, big pharma, the medical community, government, NGOs, etc.) has inculcated the masses into obedient non-thinking robots. So you just might be onto something Sheri.
Just in case you didn’t see or hear it reported by the New York Times or the Washington Post or NBC or the Los Angeles Times or NPR or MSNBC or CNN or PBS’ News Hour or ABC or CBS or the Associated Press…
http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_March_2021_v6.jpg
http://www.climate4you.com/GreenhouseGasses.htm#CO2%20and%20UAH%20diagram
More and more I’m convinced that the left are being used by Satan to eliminate ALL life on this planet. Not just degenerate human behavior, but literally kill everything. I actually argued with some idiot the other day that said it would be awesome if we could eliminate ALL CO2 in the atmosphere.
The idiots that make up the bulk of society have been brainwashed to believe CO2 is a deadly poison … Remember the jokes about getting people to support bans on Dihydrogen Monoxide? They have succeeded with CO2.
Jesus needs to get off his butt, get back here and set this place straight. Sheesh.
As the ongoing PanicDemic proves, the majority of people are incredibly stupid. Thus, the same fools seen walking down the sidewalk proudly wearing the Garment of Gates are the same fools who will clamour for eliminating CO2 from the atmosphere. Gramsci’s Long March has been highly successful.
pre cog car theft…
That’s a nice summary of the climate craziness, Uncle Mike: CO2 isn’t a poison, warming isn’t bad, and the men driving this madness are not nice people but rather the opposite. And yet Kool-Aid drinking fools think people who tell the truth about climate are their enemies, and that their friends are the lying sociopaths who hate them. Perfect satanic inversion.
A respected climate scientist making the case that if not for CO2 release since the industrial revolution the interglacial period would have ended, and we’d be back in a full-blown ice age:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yze1YAz_LYM&t=3s
Fear not, the crazies cannot possibly remove CO2 no matter what they try. They can fleece us, though.
Zundfolge-
You may be correct.
Or maybe the Greenies are more accurately described as watermelons.
As for the Lord, doesn’t he help those who help themselves?
There are many previous civilizations that our scientists have dug up or discovered. They make educated guesses at what these peoples did, how they lived, and as to what caused them to abandon their cities/civilizations, and disappear. We can’t really know the whole truth about these long gone peoples, but we can make intelligent theories about them. I believe one truth about them, is that they engaged at some point in their history, in the kind of self-destructive arrogance based on nothing but rubbish that we see so much of now. And that is what I see for “modern” mans ending in our future. But it is only a theory, based on what logic I have.
They do hate all of humanity not in their circle (globalists) and won’t rest until the useless eaters are gone from their playground earth.
The filthy maggot tribe swill yearn for the “good old days” of their Messiahs – Lenin and Stalin.
Never forget that Saint Greta is owned by George Soros!!!
OUR DEAR LORD JESUS IS HERE,hes been traveling around getting his people ready to go,THERE ARE VERY FEW OF HIS PEOPLE ON EARTH,the rest hate him,THEY will not be saved,THEN THE LEFT BEHIND WILL BE ALLOWED TO KILL EACH OTHER,till their all dead,and like he said,THEIR GOING TO REALLY MAKE A MESS OF THIS PLANET,It will be so bad, OUR FATHER will restore the planet back the way it was in the begining,OH,HE IS GOING TO TAKE ALL THE ANIMALS AND FISH,there won’t be much to eat,OUR LORD called and called the MEN to stand up,they flew him the bird and said WE LOVE THESE DEVILS AND WILL NOT STOP THEM OR HUNT THEM we love evil people,SO now your screwed,and soon ,you and your family will starve to death,or be killed,AND ITS YOUR OWN FAULT,kissing SATANS MINIONS ASS will be your last joy before they kill you,AMERICA YOU HAVE CHOSEN VERY POORLY…YOU could still save your self,BUT ,OH the changes you’d have to make,a total reverse,and start hunting down these devils,ambushes everywhere everyday..I don’t see that happening…till its to late…
What a fine article, Uncle Mike. We notice that that the climate propagandists like to call CO2, which is a clean, colorless, pure plant food, “carbon” in order to make it sound dirty and smudgy.
John Kerry, Biden’s chosen climate ambassador, owns numerous private jets, yachts, and SUVs, so he knows a thing or two about “carbon emissions”, and loves traveling around the world lecturing the rest of us about “cutting back”.
Here’s a really icky 3-min. interview with a WSJ reporter, where Kerry tells us that climate change is SUCH a dire emergency, that we MUST get back into the Paris Accord IMMEDIATELY, and ignore China’s economic and human rights abuses so they’ll be more cooperative about ending their emissions by, say, 2060. That is, in four decades, because EMERGENCY!
https://www.wsj.com/video/john-kerry-says-climate-is-a-free-standing-issue-ahead-of-china-trip/5B8323F0-7D6A-4278-BB58-9A143D40CFD1.html
Real climate experts tell us that because we are, after all, coming out of an ice age, “global warming” is the mega-trend for the next few hundred years, but first we’ll probably get a few decades of cooling, due to reduced solar activity (sunspots):
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/04/dark_cold_years_are_coming_so_youd_better_get_ready.html
The American Thinker article explains how waning sunspots cause a cooler earth:
“During a GSM [Grand Solar Minimum], as the number of sunspots wanes, the sun’s magnetic field shrinks almost to the surface of the sun. Normally it acts as a shield against cosmic radiation and particles for the entire solar system. Without the protection of the sun’s magnetic field, we are bombarded by cosmic matter.
“That matter impacts air molecules in the atmosphere, creating ions that accelerate the transformation of aerosols into condensation nuclei. This increases the formation of low clouds made from water vapor present in the air. They block the sun, causing the earth’s temperature to cool.
“Over the past couple of years, sunspot activity has been remarkably low. Correspondingly, we’ve seen more late spring and early fall rains in the northern hemisphere. Grain crops have been adversely impacted.”
Apparently, John Kerry and Co. haven’t gotten the latest news, even though it’s been trending for at least two years: we’re likely headed for another “mini-ice age” as intense as the Maunder Minimum during the middle ages, but slightly shorter in duration, possibly lasting a few decades.
So, the Biden climate tsar wants us to destroy our U.S. energy sector, give China, India, and Russia, a huge boost (until 2060!), and put taxpayers/ratepayers on the hook for vast, bird-killing solar and wind installations, which will freeze up right when they’re most needed.
That sounds like a Democrat plan, alright; good to know the smart people are back in charge!
Well, we could freeze the extra CO2 or store it in liquid form so when it’s needed again we will at least have it available. No sense eliminating it altogether, right? Unless the law of conservation of mass doesn’t apply to them. They will probably have to change the school textbooks to include new science. Matter can now choose to identify as whatever it wants to be. Woke Physics will be taught at the universities. I see a new future…
I seem to remember a story about a force – a thing – that hates life so much as to break away from that which creates life and declare all life (especially human) as it’s enemy. Funny enough, one of the names of that hateful thing is “Father Of Lies”. Coincidence? Me thinks not.
If the Gaia theory holds true (that the planet is a life form) then I suspect that darwinian theory is wrong, and mutations are not random. If the evolution of animals is not random then human beings actually serve a need of the current environment. That environment is COLD and almost depleted of CO2. Also, the land masses have moved so far apart, there is no way for bio diversity to spread without a mechanism for moving life around the continents.
It thus (in my mind) makes sense that humans are filling the planets needs’ and pulling energy reserves out of the planet (like our bodies burning fat when hungry and cold) for disbursement in the atmosphere as needed by ALL life forms.
I believe that the evidence for God – and the debunking of random genetic variation – is actually hidden in the data we now have and that is why the need to stamp out all open discussions. It is no longer possible to argue against the evidence (e.g. planet isn’t dying, isn’t cooling, is only warming a little, climate change is all within reasonable bounds, and CO2 is good for life) and so they need to use force and lies to suppress the truth.
Oh, and so much for the demise of polar bears: they are moving south and mating with other bears… https://nypost.com/2021/04/14/polar-bears-are-mating-with-grizzlies-to-become-pizzly-bears/
“14) Do everything without complaining or arguing, 15) so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world 16) as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.”
The Second Epistle of St. Paul To The Philippians.
Steve Briggs, that’s a great idea, suck all the CO2 out of the atmosphere and store it.
But store it as DIAMONDS:
https://robbreport.com/style/jewelry/dale-vince-british-entrepreneur-zero-impact-diamonds-1234578688/
The Overlords get a twofer; not only do the useless eaters croak but the Overlords turn their deaths into piles of sparkly baubles.
Sean spoke of the eventual arrogance of now-dead civilizations. Those who started construction of the Tower in Babel testify to that arrogance. “We can reach God. We can BE God.”
With some luck and some investment a Sandia spinoff named Memzyme (memzyme.org) may provide a way for us to implement the Steve Briggs idea about storing it. The company is mimicking biology in a membrane that may allow fossil fuel-fired power plants to get paid to capture the CO2 out of their smoke stacks.
Wow. Am I the only one who thinks Uncle Mike’s post miss-frames the issue? First, no one is arguing that we want to “stop” CO2. CO2 occurs naturally and ending all industrial CO2 output will not effect that cycle. No one argues with the notion that CO2 has been lower and higher over time. We certainly don’t want the CO2 levels of the time of the dinosaurs when sea levels were 30ft higher. It’s very clear that CO2 has increased in the atmosphere since the industrial age. That’s fact. One only needs to Google it. You can also Google the FACT that many experiments were done over a century ago that demonstrated how the earth’s temperature rises with increases in CO2. Try Wikipedia, as well. If sea levels rise 3ft, is warming good? I don’t think our grandkids would think so.
Thanks to John Garret for posting some facts.
I’m sorry, Randy, But I can’t take anyone seriously who cites Google and Wikipedia as sources for anything, not even chocolate chip cookie recipes.
I live 1000 miles inland at an elevation of 1200 ft. I couldn’t care less if the sea were to rise 3 feet over the course of a century or two. Its not going to happen in an afternoon, and its not like we can’t adjust to the change.
re: ” You can also Google the FACT that many experiments were done over a century ago that demonstrated how the earth’s temperature rises with increases in CO2.”
No.
The Vostok ice cores do not support this contention. The ice cores support an inverse relationship; temps rose then CO2 rose. WHEN observations do not match ‘theory’, change the theory … the observations still stand.
http://euanmearns.com/the-vostok-ice-core-temperature-co2-and-ch4/
A notable feature of the “human-caused CO2 is killing the planet” narrative, is the actors in this drama don’t really believe their own script.
U.S. Climate Envoys such as John Kerry and Algore jet around the planet when they’re not enjoying their mansions, yachts, fleets of SUVs, and noted Hollywood actress Robert Dinero (sic) even traveled the Middle East to complain about Bad Orange Man and the U.S. oil industry, and how they must be stopped because the planet is dying. Needless to say, his UAE audience was fine with killing the U.S. oil industry, their main competitor! Applause all around, death to American energy!
Here’s just one google page using the magpie media’s popular headline “Robert De Niro takes aim at climate change”:
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=robert+de+niro+climate+change&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Is Robert Dinero really committed to saving the planet, or is it all just Trump Derangement Syndrome, and “Raging Bull——“ if you will?
We get a pretty good clue, just today, from an article entitled “Robert de Niro struggling to keep up with wife’s thirst for Stella McCartney..”
There, we discover from his estranged wife’s divorce lawyer, ”There have been no cutbacks and no slowdowns in Mr. De Niro’s lifestyle whatsoever,” McDonough said. “When Mr. De Niro goes to brunch Sunday in Connecticut, he charters a helicopter up there. When he flies down to see his friends in Florida or wherever else, it’s a private jet.”
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/robert-de-niro-struggling-to-keep-up-with-wifes-thirst-for-stella-mccartney-divorce-lawyer
Perhaps all have read the 5 part series. If not try the first installment: http://icecap.us/images/uploads/McClenneyPart_I.pdf