I have 300+ trees here on my property I planted myself (Okay, I hired a landscaper to plant the first seven).
Now there's a figure that Trump and conservatives ought to be citing all the time:
"Our national debt is over six times larger than the number of trees on our entire planet."
How many carbon credits do they have to buy when they remove a dam and replace the electricity with fossil fuel generation? I never hear that discussed.
Are the computer models being used to predict gloom and doom using the erroneous 400 billion tree number when calculating the CO2 sequestration from trees? What happens to the computer models when they increase this number by a factor of 10?
The greatest moderator of CO2 are foraminiphera. These are single celled organisms that float in our lakes and rivers and most importantly the oceans. There cells are carbonates. When they die their very tiny shells settle to the bottom of the ocean. Their shells are made of calcium and CO2 that comes from the atmosphere. They sequester carbon dioxide. We have mountains that are thousands of feet in height made of this Calcium Carbonate. We have sedimentary layers beneath the surface of the earth that are many times greater than our mountains made from the same calcium carbonate that are but microscopic shells of these microscopic foraminophera.
The importance of my missive is that the global warming models do not even consider this huge carbon dioxide sequestering that is the greatest of all.
What I am really trying to say is the Global Warming Models are crap science. They do not even call it global warming anymore but they call it “climate change.” The reason they do this is they know their scientific modeling and computer projections are wrong. Actually they are no longer scientists but merely charlatans on the payroll of political activists.
I am a scientist. It really hurts when you have a concept and devote a great deal of your time and efforts to proving your hypothesis and determine you are wrong.
A ethical scientist publishes his theory and then with research proves it and most disheartening publishes why he was wrong. That my friend is real science.
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As a totally boring aside I had some concepts about clay chemistry that were totally wrong. By my research I did discover something unique that I did share with my professors. I did not publish as I wanted to get back to the oilfield and make money. Publishing is a total pain in the ass.
I was pleased to see other geologists did my same research and published my original findings. Hats off to them as they did the exact same research as I with the same conclusions. I made the best choice and went back to the oilfield and got rich until 1983 when the oilfield went south. Today I am a pharmacist and thankfully retired.
It has been a damn good ride!