The importance of CO2 for life – The alarmist defeat June 18, 2021 John Shanahan and friends (emails)
John Shanahan Below is a short, elegant discussion of carbon dioxide's importance for life on Earth. Many elected officials and bureaucrats in current government offices of the United States, the UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, and France from city to state to federal levels ignore these facts and claim that man-made climate catastrophes are real. They demand getting rid of fossil fuels and nuclear power, and insist on imposing wind and solar energy. Those policies are real man-made catastrophes that will affect all of us directly, sooner than you can imagine.
Terry Donze (from a Russ) I'm not disagreeing with what this article says, but I also think it misses the mark. Or rather the plural - marks. Case in point: "Our life and health depend on high enough levels of CO2 in the blood and tissues. Carbon dioxide is a nutrient and a product of respiration and energy production in the cells, and its lack or deficiency is a starting point for disturbances in the body. Plants certainly love CO2. CO2 deficiencies equate with bicarbonate deficiencies, which relate to acid, low cell voltage, and low oxygen conditions." If the author wants to point out the importance of CO2, I suggest he not dwell on the "small stuff" like he has here. Very simply put, carbon is THE MAIN BUILDING BLOCK OF LIFE. An entire branch of chemistry revolves around carbon and there is no life form on earth that even exists without it because all life is an extremely and elegantly complex array of organic (aka carbon) chemicals found in every part of every cell of every organ of every organism. Life IS the biochemistry of carbon, and CO2 is the simplest form of carbon that is bioavailable. All plants absorb it and 1
then naturally assimilate it into various biochemicals and coincidently free up O2 which is necessary for all aerobic respiration of the untold billions of different life-forms that occupy our planet. CO2 is the link between the O2 makers and the O2 consumers and Mother Nature has conveniently made the O2 consumers the CO2 producers. What far too few people appreciate is that hydrocarbon fuels (also inaccurately described as fossil fuels) are 100% sourced from life-forms, not necessarily from just fossilized life-forms. So even hydrocarbon fuels are a crucial part of the carbon cycle the cycle of Life. If mankind is successful in appreciably diminishing or restricting the presence of atmospheric CO2, then LIFE as we know will cease to even exist. It would be like jamming up a cog in the carbon cycle. The carbon cycle is the cycle of life and to arrogantly tamper with it is just an ultra vain attempt to manipulate Nature itself. And ultra-STUPID!
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Thorpe Watson Bill Gates may or may not be nuts, but he is definitely misinformed and dangerous. The video on the Milankovitch Cycles is well done but fails to mention the role of cosmic radiation and solar cycles. Also, he implies that ice could cause runaway cooling and that most of the ice is in the Arctic. Actually, Antarctica has 90% of the world's ice while Greenland has 4%. Obviously, he is referring to coverage. The following numbers don't seem to confirm what Dr. Sircus is saying except during our winter months. However, I haven't investigated the significance of the albedo effect. Greenland 2.17 million km2 Arctic sea ice March max 15 million km2; Sept min 3.74 million km2 Antarctica ice sheet 14 million km2 Alaska & northern Canada winter - ????? Summer ~0 plus glaciers The author's credentials are not impressive but, as LM states: "Dr. Sircus' article is on point as best we know. Bill Gates is nuts."
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Dr. Mark SircusAC., OMD, DM (P) Professor of Natural Oncology, Da Vinci Institute of Holistic Medicine Doctor of Oriental and Pastoral Medicine Founder of Natural Allopathic Medicine -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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The Madness of Cooling A Cooling Planet We are into our third spring month, and it is still snowing in the northern hemisphere, yet the madmen ruling the planet will not let the media inform the people that the climate experts were wrong about man-made global warming. Earth is facing a deep freeze, and solar scientists are warning us that this cooling, which has accelerated dramatically this year, will continue for several decades. https://drsircus.com/general/the-madness-of-cooling-a-cooling-planet/ LM writes: Dr. Sircus article is on point as best we know. Bill Gates is nuts.
Rick Sanders There's blood in the water now! The Swiss have given the green monsters a bloody nose! Swiss No to Climate Law Blows Back into the Rest of Europe June 16, 2021 (EIRNS)— The reality of the Swiss electorate’s defeat of the new climate law in a referendum on June 13 is blowing back to the rest of Europe as the reality that the public will not buy into climate policies. Bild TV, the television program of the mass circulation German daily Bild, felt compelled to interview Swiss MP Roger Köppel of the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) which mobilized for the No vote. Bild’s moderator Kai Weise called him “dinosaur.” Köppel 3
replied with a declaration that his party is now a global trendsetter: “The Swiss have delivered a kind of political hammer blow against this aloof climate bureaucracy, which has enormous costs, but does nothing for the climate. The climate agreement did not pass the first original democratic acid test and that is remarkable.” Focus, one of Germany’s largest weeklies ran an editorial by its online editor Sebastian Viehmann, asserting, “While the [German] Federal Constitutional Court subordinates everything to the climate, the people in Switzerland decided differently and overturned a CO₂ law. In Germany, too, the gasoline price dispute shows that you don’t necessarily win elections with climate hype.” Viehmann warns politicians not to be so quick to refer to “we” when it comes to climate change policies now being pushed. “It was not ‘we’, that is, the population, who signed any climate agreement. Nowhere could you vote on whether you wanted to subordinate your life, your job, your leisure time or the economy solely to what the federal government defines as climate protection and sign any agreement. If you do ask the people—see the current Swiss example—that can backfire for politics.” The British-based E&T, Engineering and Technology journal of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, makes the point in an op-ed that the defeat of “Switzerland’s ‘CO₂ law’ was one of the first carbon tax measures worldwide put to a national public vote but also the first to fall on the chopping block.” Author Sam Morgan warns: “Souring public opinion is the bête noire of climate policymakers because it could make or break flagship initiatives like the EU Green Deal, which is filled with language like ‘just transition’, ‘green jobs’ and ‘nobody left behind.’” He says the European Union “risks triggering the same backlash if the argument is not structured more shrewdly (that is to tell a lie). So far, the Green Deal has been a series of ideas on paper, nothing too tangible. That time is drawing to a close.” As with the hated Maastricht Treaty for a United States of Europe which fails in every referendum, he writes: “The main lesson the EU will learn from the Swiss case—not that it needed to be relearned—is that complex policy decisions should not be put to a public vote.”
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Note, John Shanahan: Carbon dioxide in the life cycle is gloriously beautiful. See photo examples. Fossil fuels have made the world much better. There is only one thing that can replace the wonders they do and that is nuclear power and nuclear science. Getting there is going to take time, several hundred years, I believe. But we must begin to fight back against the alarmists, or they will win and billions will suffer and die. Photos of climate today of the modern world created by fossil fuels and beautiful life created by carbon dioxide.
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Fossil fuels make the modern world possible. Carbon dioxide makes life possible. Use them with respect and make a wonderful world. 8