Climate Change
SEE ALSO: Agriculture and Food
SEE ALSO: Carbon Sequestration
SEE ALSO: ENERGY
SEE ALSO: GREEN NEW DEAL
Please take the time to review ALL of the information on this page BEFORE you make any decisions regarding your position on "Climate Change." We are concerned about climate related issues, just not the same issues that drive climate alarmists' hysteria.
- Yes, the climate is changing. It always changes.
- Yes, human beings are causing severe damage to the environment and contributing to climate change and global warming.
- Yes, carbon dioxide is a "greenhouse gas" and tends to increase temperatures, but the hysteria surrounding the effects of carbon on climate are overblown and misguided.
- The Greenhouse effect is essential to all life on earth, without the warming effect of greenhouse gases the planet would be a very cold and uninhabitable place indeed.
- The effectiveness of CO2 as a Greenhouse gas diminishes logarithmically with increasing concentration.
- Carbon dioxide is NOT an atmospheric pollutant.
- Carbon dioxide is necessary for plant and animal life on the planet.
- The impact of rising CO2 concentrations at their current levels on global warming is insignificant.
- Below a concentration of atmospheric CO2 < 200 ppmv, plants struggle to survive.
- At the current level of ~400 ppmv, just twice the level needed for planetary survival, less than 13% of the effectiveness of CO2 as a Greenhouse gas now remains.
- So little of the effectiveness of CO2 as a greenhouse gas now remains that there is no possibility of man-made CO2 emissions ever attaining the much feared +2°C temperature rise, that is considered to be so catastrophic by climate alarmists and sadly also by so many politicians in the Western world.
- Increasing CO2 in the atmosphere can only lead to very limited further warming and certainly not to any catastrophic and dangerous "runaway" temperature increase. Elevated levels of carbon dioxide above 400ppm will NOT trigger an unstoppable, runaway increase in temperature.
- The world needs its atmospheric CO2 for the survival and fertilization of plant life: it thus supports all life on earth.
- The most important Greenhouse gas is water, both as vapor and clouds, causing up to ~95% of the essential warming that keeps the planet as a whole habitable.
- As a Greenhouse gas, CO2 has about 1/75th the effectiveness of atmospheric water.
- A doubling of CO2 concentration from 400 ppm to 800 ppm can only result in a temperature increase of ~0.37°C according to the likely median case and the worst case can only result in less than +1.0 °C
- Mankind’s attempts to control global temperature by the limitation of CO2 emissions from combustion of fossil fuels can only ever have marginal or immeasurable effects, therefore de-carbonization efforts by mankind are futile, misguided and irrelevant.
The importance of the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere
- Photosynthetic plants originally evolved in an environment of atmospheric CO2 at several 1000’s ppm. In horticultural businesses, plant growth is routinely enhanced by increasing the level of CO2 in greenhouses to three times or more than the current normal atmosphere, ~1,200 ppm.
- Current CO2 concentrations at 400 ppm are low when compared with the average atmospheric CO2 concentrations over the past 300 million years or so which ranged between 1000 ppm and 1200 ppm.
- At present levels the earth’s biosphere is still only marginally above a minimal CO2 level for plant and thus planetary survival and any further concentrations of atmospheric CO2 can only have a positive entirely beneficial effect on plant growth.
- As at current levels the world is still at a comparatively low level of CO2 and plant life is still close to CO2 starvation. In order to absorb sufficient CO2 for their survival, plants have to have larger stomata in their leaves: these larger stomata transpire more water vapor. So higher CO2 concentrations also reduce the amount of water that plants need for survival.
- Recent publications and satellite measurements have now established that over the past few decades the earth’s vegetation has grown substantially by ~15% globally. This is attributed simply to the higher levels of atmospheric CO2.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3004
The first 20 ppm accounts for over half of the heating effect to the pre-industrial level of 280 ppm.
Plant growth shuts down at 150 ppm. The atmospheric concentration of CO2 got down to 180 ppm during the glacial periods of the ice age, so life on Earth was within 30 ppm of disaster. Terrestrial life came close to being wiped out by a lack of CO2 in the atmosphere. If plants were doing climate science instead of us humans, they would have a different opinion about what is a dangerous carbon dioxide level.
Plant growth shuts down at 150 ppm. The atmospheric concentration of CO2 got down to 180 ppm during the glacial periods of the ice age, so life on Earth was within 30 ppm of disaster. Terrestrial life came close to being wiped out by a lack of CO2 in the atmosphere. If plants were doing climate science instead of us humans, they would have a different opinion about what is a dangerous carbon dioxide level.
The most important action that an individual person can take to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide is to plant as many trees as soon as they possibly can. If you are not planting trees, then you are not truly helping!
How many trees have you planted?
Trees not only remove carbon dioxide from the air, the also add significant amounts of oxygen into the air.
Figure 3: CO2 concentrations from Mauna Loa, Hawaii (black) and and Baring Head, New Zealand (blue). In bottom right corner is atmospheric oxygen (O2) measurements from Alert, Canada (pink) and Cape Grim, Australia (cyan) (IPCC AR4 2.3.1 adapted from Manning 2006).
Falling levels of oxygen in the atmosphere are more important that rising levels of carbon dioxide.
Planting trees is
the only known way
to reduce carbon dioxide,
increase oxygen levels
and cool the environment
by providing shade.
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Over 50% of the world's forests
have been destroyed.
The level of carbon dioxide
has increased by 50%.
Coincidence?
Brazil has lost nearly half of its forests.
30% of Borneo's forests have been lost since 1973
There are also larger astronomical factors that are far more likely to cause temperatures to PLUMMET rather than rise over the next few decades.
The information below
is from NASA...
"High up in the clear blue noontime sky, the sun appears to be much the same day-in, day-out, year after year.
Until it’s not. Every 11 years or so, sunspots fade away, bringing a period of relative calm.
“This is called solar minimum,” says Dean Pesnell of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. “And it’s a regular part of the sunspot cycle.”
The sun is heading toward solar minimum now. Sunspot counts were relatively high in 2014, and now they are sliding toward a low point expected in 2019-2020.
While intense activity such as sunspots and solar flares subside during solar minimum, that doesn’t mean the sun becomes dull. Solar activity simply changes form.
For instance, says Pesnell, “during solar minimum we can see the development of long-lived coronal holes.”
Coronal holes are vast regions in the sun’s atmosphere where the sun’s magnetic field opens up and allows streams of solar particles to escape the sun as the fast solar wind.
Streams of solar wind flowing from coronal holes can cause space weather effects near Earth when they hit Earth’s magnetic field.
Normally Earth’s upper atmosphere is heated and puffed up by ultraviolet radiation from the sun. But during solar minimum, this natural heating mechanism subsides. Earth’s upper atmosphere cools and, to some degree, can collapse.
There are unique space weather effects that get stronger during solar minimum. For example, the number of galactic cosmic rays that reach Earth’s upper atmosphere increases during solar minimum. Galactic cosmic rays are high energy particles accelerated toward the solar system by distant supernova explosions and other violent events in the galaxy.
Pesnell says that “During solar minimum, the sun’s magnetic field weakens and provides less shielding from these cosmic rays."
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Recent research published by Valentina Zharkova has added very important information to the topic of climate change.
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We agree with the Green Party:
"The climate treaty reached in Paris in December, 2015 is inadequate to address the climate change crisis. The 195 nations involved pledged to reduce greenhouse gases. The pledges are not mandatory, however. The treaty does not require the phase out of fossil fuels, and it delays higher aid levels for poorer nations until 2025."
The Paris Climate Agreement is fundamentally flawed.
Have you actually read the Paris Climate Agreement?
| paris_climate_agreement.pdf |
Have you read what the countries have agreed to do? Are you aware that their "promises" are nearly meaningless and woefully inadequate?
https://www4.unfccc.int/sites/submissions/indc/Submission%20Pages/submissions.aspx
https://www4.unfccc.int/sites/submissions/indc/Submission%20Pages/submissions.aspx
Have you analyzed the information?
| analysis_of_the_paris_climate_agreement.pdf |
"The agreement has, however, deliberately turned away from the notion of the global carbon budget."
"The Agreement allows developed countries to commit to only such emissions reductions as they wish. It has not ensured that the sum total of their actual greenhouse gas emissions will be compatible with their fair share of the global limit on cumulative emissions (the global carbon budget)."
"Another key aspect of the Paris agreement is that the Nationally Determined Contributions to mitigation action are not legally binding in any sense."
"Not only are the emission reduction targets of developed nations inadequate, no consequences will apply if they are not met."
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If you truly care about the environment, do everything you can support the reforestation of the planet in every way possible.
