I thought I recognized those words.
“Roughly equal mental and physical powers, and competition over the same objects of desire, according to Hobbes, led in a state of nature to, “continuall feare, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.”
Thomas Hobbes
I have to drive my SUV a whole year to feed four acres of rain forest.
I had not seen this information before. It is undeniable that the earth is still in an ice age, and is currently colder than “normal” when speaking in terms of geologic history. But this puts an entirely different perspective on the problem, in that long-term carbon dioxide deficiency is a far greater problem. And all we need is a colder dip in the current ice age to bring it on.
Excellent article.
The warmist cult always portrays the CO2-greenhouse effect as a linear relationship. This article makes it clear that we are well on the flat part of a logrithmic curve.
The warmist cult always gives Venus as an example of a runaway greenhouse effect. But they alway fail to point out that the partial pressure of carbon dioxide on Venus is well over 200,000 times that of Earth.
IOW, it's not new info.
There is a little-known short story published by Jules Verne, that while technically inaccurate, raises a very interesting proposition. It is entitled Dr. Ox’s Experiment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Ox’s_Experiment
The prosperous Dr. Ox enters a Flemish town known for its sedate and peaceful character. It rests within a closed and windless valley, so over the course of many years, the air there has a much higher percentage of heavier than air carbon dioxide. In fact, it is because of all this extra CO2 that the place is sedate and peaceful.
Dr. Ox offers them, free of charge, a electrolysis plant that will split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Then they can use the hydrogen to power their street lamps. However, his hidden motive is to flood their valley with oxygen to see its effects on people.
In any event, the story points out a possibility for agriculture. If you planted a crop in a depression shielded from wind, then added CO2 to the air, you would likely get much greater plant yields.
Importantly, to uptake CO2, plants have pores in their skin, which they open to get the gas. However, in the process, water evaporates out the open pores. But when there is a lot of CO2, the plants don’t need to open their pores as wide, so they lose less water. So they need to uptake less water.
This is a second good reason to do this, if you live in an arid region. To get higher plant yields *and* to conserve water.
Nature has many mechanism for restoring equilibrium. If one component is increased, the mechanisms come into play and equalize the proportions.
Has always been this way, and always will be.
Nature recovers from fluctuations and catastrophes. Climate “scientists” are too stupid to notice this.
Check the "Introduction" of Volume X of the Geological Society of America's Treatise on the Geology of North America:
http://tinyurl.com/nepzo4g
Each interglacial lasts about 12,000 years and displays a cockscomb temperature curve with third-, fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-order temperature swings responding to various inputs into global average temperatures.
We are currently about 10,000 years in, and the Climatic Optimum has been passed (the mode of the second-order curve) about 6000 years ago. What remains is a gentle, oscillating rolloff for about 600-1800 years followed by a vertical crash into pleniglacial climatic conditions.
It's going to get a hell of a lot colder before "global warming" overreaches us, and by then we won't be able to get enough of it, after 25,000 years or so in the deep freeze.
I love this new line some are using. The Europeans and now the US are getting their energy from the weather. Russia, China and India are getting their energy from their natural resources.
ping
This goes straight to my archives.
I wish “Human Events” had been more specific as to why David Archibald, the author, is a “climate expert.”
The Climate Nazis are extremely skilled at magnifying any flaws in the CV’s or facts or conclusions of people who criticize the Global Warming agenda.
The people on our side of this issue need to be much more alert to that method of counter-attack and prepare accordingly.
” In fact the more carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere, the better for all forms of life on planet Earth.”
Maybe they don’t want things better for ALL forms of life on Earth. Maybe they want to get rid of a couple hundred million or so, of us.
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