Can’t Stop the CO2 Emissions
With the experts in the Western World telling us Armageddon is at the door, and every spring storm and tornado is reported by local meteorologists/weather reporters/forecasters as linked to the global warming/climate change we’re living through, I guess it’s time we get serious about reports about extreme heat in some parts of Africa. At least that’s I’m told because I live in the United States that’s so responsible to the world for climate change.
We’re told the main culprit is the level of CO2 in the earth’s atmosphere. They know what it was 100’s, even 1,000’s of years ago. Amazing. They also know that since the industrial revolution began some 200 years ago, man – meaning human beings – have been dumping 100’s of million tons into earth’s atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. To most of us that sounds like a lot.
We all know that fossil fuels – oil, gas, and coal – have played a major role in advancing knowledge and the freedoms of transport – people and goods – to a variety of local retailers at affordable prices. In all, advancing civilization.
Let’s start with an understanding that CO2 is not a toxic gas. That it’s a natural part our world.
It’s estimated that volcanoes add one billion metric tons of CO2 to our atmosphere annually.
Carbonated soft drinks add 27.4 billion tons.
In one day, the average person breathes out around 500 liters of the greenhouse gas CO2 – which amounts to around 1kg in mass. The world’s population is around 6.8 billion, collectively breathing out around 2500 million tons (2.5 billion) of the stuff each year.
Then there’s earth faults and cow flatulence – earthquakes, belches and farts – that add more.
What most of us aren’t told or reminded of is the size – the volume – of the earth’s atmosphere. It’s absolutely huge, and beyond the real grasp of those of us who have not studied the subject. Photosynthesis is the process whereby plants/trees use/depend on the carbon in CO2 and return oxygen to our air. It’s a beautiful thing.
Our atmosphere is made up of layers, collectively known as air. It’s held to our orb by gravity. Our air is 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% argon. While the gases of neon, helium, methane, krypton and water vapor make up lesser amounts, CO2 is more and comes in at .04% of the atmosphere. That’s less than ½ of 1%.
We’re told that CO2 has increased 50% still the beginning of the industrial revolution. That’s a lot, right? Don’t ask me how they know, but that means that in the last 200 years CO2 levels have increased by 01%. That doesn’t sound like so much.
Now, you and I are supposed to believe that this increase – .01% – and our continued burning of fossil fuels is going to make the earth uninhabitable.
We’re to believe man has so much control over our atmosphere that we can kill ourselves by burning fossil fuels – however cleanly.
If you’re like me you’ve noticed that humans can’t control a small, pop-up thunderstorm, much less a tornado or hurricane. That’s how much power humans have – little and none – to control our air.
But now we’re inundated with Western leaders without any more knowledge of our atmosphere than you and I who want us to lower our standards and lower our desires for adequate electricity and reliable power grids. Because of the danger we’ve supposedly brought on ourselves we must “pay” for our previous sins and indulgencies by wiping combustible engines from American streets and highways and gas-powered appliances out of our homes.
Only solar and wind are allowed as substitutes for coal and gas, even though our leaders know the timeline they’ve set for that transition is sooner than possible. If they have their way, our electricity will certainly be rationed.
Like St. Patrick ridding Ireland of snakes, we’re supposed to follow this climate change religion on some kind of blind faith. The ‘saints’ of climate change will rid our country of those nasty fossil fuels – and all our supposed carbon footprints (that’s a ‘bad’ thing, in case you didn’t know, made bigger with every exhale. Oh, and don’t tell the trees.).
The climate is not static, and never was or could be static. The planet gets hotter, it gets colder, sometimes quickly, sometimes over eons, and there are a bunch of reasons why, like the sun and volcanos. Human-produced carbon might be one of the factors, but there’s simply no evidence that it is the most significant one.
My research would conclude claims that climate change has made for more extreme weather events are based on computer models that assume CO2 emissions make extreme weather more likely, an assumption that has no basis in fact. Assumptions and computer models are not science. An assumption can be part of a theory, but then the scientist has to prove it.
Of course, if our guru leaders really cared about carbon, they would be up in arms about China and India – and ground their private jets.
I’ll leave it there.
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Have a great and prosperous week.
Hug somebody.
References:
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/how-much-does-human-breathing-contribute-to-climate-change
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth
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