The Global Warming Hoax, a Jihad Against Plant Food

I keep forgetting that "Global Warming" is still a thing, that it hasn't been trashcanned like the 1970s' "Global Cooling" or the "Global Trash Crisis" of the 1980s' (don't remember that one?).

Then I came across an article here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/demise-of-coal-in-rich-countries-brings-global-carbon-emissions-to-a-stall that had a line like this:

U.S. emissions fell 2.9%, or by 140 million tons, continuing the trend of the United States leading the world in total emissions decline since 2000.

Emissions in the European Union declined 5%, while Japan’s emissions were 4.3% lower in 2019.

But emissions in the rest of the world grew by nearly 400 million tons, with 80% of that increase coming from developing countries in Asia due to strong demand for coal. Scientists from the United Nations say global emissions must steeply decline in the coming years to avoid the severe consequences of climate change.

Wow. "Scientists...global emissions must steeply decline in the coming years to avoid the severe consequences of climate change."

Well, well. "Carbon emissions", i.e., CO², we're not exactly talking about pure carbon, the element, but it in conjunction – covalently double bonded, to be precise – with two oxygen atoms, the latter that totally unnoble element that just loves to combine with all sorts of things, especially iron. 

Carbon dioxide is a "trace element" in the atmosphere, and billions of years ago, when the Cambrian Explosion occurred, CO² was 17 times more dense in the atmosphere than now. It's been going down ever since, as plants (trees, by themselves, are the largest weight of biomass on the planet) began sucking it out of the air and sequestering it via coal (coal being laid down before the rise of organisms that decomposed the fallen trees) and other fossil fuels, not not to mention the simply staggering amount of carbon (100 million billion tons, no less) sequestered into limestone, chalk, marble, and other rock over the eons by Coccolithophores (Phytoplanton), shellfish, corals, and foraminitera (zooplantion), who used carbon dioxide to make calcium carbonate building and armor structures. When the big Ammonite shellfish were alive in Dino times, CO² was 2,000 ppm (parts per million), but by 18,000 years ago, at the height of the last glaciation, it was down to 180 ppm. All this is according to Dr. Patrick Moore, an ecologist Ph.D., and one of the co-founders of Greenpeace, who left that organization when it became – in effect – an anti-scientific Luddite fringe group. Dr. Moore says that had we humans not come along and started putting CO² back into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels and releasing the sequestered CO², life on Earth was on course to extinguish itself (once CO² gets to 150 ppm, plants start to die off).

Because of us putting the CO² back, the Earth is greening up, what's called the CO² Fertilization Effect, and this effect is as measured by the Australian CSIRO, their top science body.

So, the Global Warmists are on an anti-CO² Jihad, because they say CO² is causing "Global Warming" (officially now "Climate Change"). Yet there's plenty of proxy temp dating that shows CO² levels have followed planetary warming, not preceded it. But whatever. I'm sure the Greenpeace crowd and "Warmists" in general decry Dr. Patrick Moore as a "Big Oil Sellout", as he defends the mining of the oil sands in Alberta (Moore is a native of the coastal area of Vancouver Island, actually having grown up on a floating village). Moore is also an advocate for both hydroelectic and nuclear power. A lifetime of achievement (he really did help to stop above-ground nuclear testing in the US, and also "saved the wales") and his devotion to actual science, is all besmirched.

Anyway, I find it fascinating that such scientific ignorance is so prevalent, that today, in the "space age", we have Luddites galore, so "galore" we have to put up with a war on plant food (note: no one is in favor of toxic pollution; the issue is calling carbon dioxide – the very stuff of life, its substance and sustainer – a pollutant.

Luddites oppose so much, for example those new strains of rice that could feed 100s of millions, all because it is "bio-engineered" food. What the heck do they think corn (maise) is? It wasn't "bio-engineered" in a lab with guys in white coats, but it was definitely "bio-engineered."

For those interested in Dr. Moore, his website is:

http://ecosense.me/

And here are some Youtube-available lectures:

Dr Patrick Moore 2019 The Power of Truth www.freedomtalk.ca

Absolutely GREAT Lecture from Dr. Patrick Moore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYQ6eZDXXRE

“Simple science made me a Greenpeace dropout.”

A second Patrick Moore presentation from 2015, a forum arranged by Moses Znaimer’s IdeaCity Conference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFHX526NPbE

FWIW

An Préachan