A crisis of knowledge. All life depends on an adequate amount of CO2
A crisis of knowledge. Recent minimal warming, whatever its cause, is irrelevant…
Climate scientists would not be so inclined to issue warnings of planetary catastrophe if they gave more credence to the geological history of the last few million years.
Instead, they rely on computer models distorted by the biases of their manipulators and unable to account for the multitude of factors that influence global temperatures.
The recent minimal warming, whatever its cause, is irrelevant in light of the long record of data found in Antarctic ice cores going back 800,000 years.
The bottom line is that the Earth is nearly 3 degrees Celsius colder than it was 3,000 years ago and is just emerging from the longest cold snap in 10,000 years.
The headlines about the record heat waves of the past 100 years are therefore nonsensical and, above all, hysterical.
A deeper dive into geologic history – based in part on the record preserved for millions of years in deep ocean sediments – shows that today’s carbon dioxide concentrations of 420 ppm are a fraction of past levels, when they reached 5,000 ppm and higher.
Carbon dioxide is virtually at its lowest level since the beginning of plant life many millions of years ago, and well below the optimal level for the health of most vegetation.
In fact, the mid-19th century concentration of 280 ppm is dangerously close to the point at which plant life dies – below 150 ppm.
Given that all life depends on an adequate amount of carbon dioxide, proposals to reduce atmospheric CO2 are nothing short of unconscionable.
On the contrary, any global increase in carbon dioxide will be beneficial to planet Earth and, more importantly, will have virtually no effect on global temperature.
On the contrary, as the “Bible” of human history and climate change, written by the late Professor Hubert Lamb of the University of East Anglia, shows, cold weather is deadly.
In fact, during the so-called “Little Ice Age,” the annual number of burials exceeded the number of births in parts of England from 1660 to about 1730″, the professor reported.
So why do so many scientists demonize fossil fuels ?
Why are some calling for civilization to move away from useful energy sources and back to mass starvation, poverty and horse-drawn carriages ?
Our society is absolutely dependent on cheap and available energy for its survival.
To dream of a utopian world is (perhaps) admirable, but to inflict suffering on society through ignorance of science is certainly deplorable.
Humanity is deprived of valuable knowledge when so many choose ideology and fear over the meticulous research of eminent physical scientists such as Richard Alley, professor of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University, who pioneered ice-core studies, and Richard Lindzen, professor emeritus of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who explored the incredible complexity of atmospheric physics.
And it is possible to cite dozens of others with the same credentials, largely unknown outside the scientific community.
The public is “protected” by a “social media” culture that is eager to broadcast the alleged need to limit global warming to 1.5 or 2.0 degrees Celsius – artificial constructs with no scientific basis.
The result is unwarranted regulatory intrusion into daily life, whether it be restrictions on heating, air conditioning, dishwashers or stoves, or the increased cost or reduced availability of electricity.
There is no global climate emergency.
Instead, there is a widespread crisis of knowledge.
