The Perfect Target
James Hutton :-“The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.”
Expect the wailing and gnashing of teeth to really gather momentum round about now. The cold is starting to bite. The warmers will see their CO2 disappear into the sinks more swiftly from now on. It’s lifetime in the atmosphere being between 5 to 16 years and 50 to 80 years, according to sink utilized and if it is warm which is stopping about now. In fact one of the best things about CO2 is its lifetime in atmosphere. We will reap the benefits of boosted levels for 50 to 80 years after “fossil” fuels run out.
Luckily we have about 150 years of those “fossil” fuels (more for coal)that are easily recoverable. Enough time for human ingenuity, resilience and tenacity to produce several VIABLE alternatives. If we haven’t weaned ourselves off the teat by then we deserve what we get.
The CO2 level will still only be around 850ppmv when we have burned all the good stuff - compare that with the concentrations in your front room when friends come round to dinner - 2000+ppmv. A crowded office with regulation ventilation - 1000+ppmv. A commercial greenhouse - 1500+ppmv. A nuclear-powered attack submarine - 4,000+ppmv - yes that is 0.04% of the total gasses and is considered a safe level that does not impinge upon intellect or harm bodily function. Quick. Where are the spacesuits?
The “forcing” due to CO2 being over 22ppmv, or 50ppmv according to some, drops off logarithmically above those levels - all the blather about “doubling” is exactly that. Blather. If CO2 could somehow quadruple from current levels we would see no added temperature effect above that which has already occurred.
The other, main, misrepresentation of CO2 is that it is a “well mixed” component of the atmosphere. I remember an engineer telling me, when CO2 was first made out to be the bad guy, “it is by far the heaviest gas and hugs the ground which is lucky for the vegetation and plankton of this world” which fits with its specific gravity of 1.5+.
Another crafted lie about the most basic component of life itself; Increases in CO2 put pressure on the oceans and their “acidity” levels. Not. The oceans are alkaline and likely to stay that way even if the CO2 content rises from the current 50 times atmospheric to 300 times which has been seen before and failed to kill sea borne life.
Photosynthesis has a cumulative cooling effect and the planet’s biomass increase due to CO2 rising above “dangerous” levels in the last 100 years has lead to (latest figures) a 7% increase in measurable foliage worldwide. Subsequent increases in agricultural yield are a given.
The laughable twisting of the life giving gas into some sort of polluting killer is where the whole charade falls down.
We have much bigger fish to fry but they are difficult for the elite to monetize through taxation etc, - hence CO2, the perfect target.
As one carbon based life-form to another (please excuse my CO2 exhalation as I speak) “Live long and prosper.”
