What if we are actually living in a period in which we are low on CO2? That our planet needs more Carbon Dioxide for plant life? The entire premise of the climate alarmist position is that we have too much Carbon Dioxide and need to cut back but this planet has had higher CO2 levels and certainly, as CO2 levels have gone up, we actually seen agricultural output increase to go with increase prosperity. We are feeding more people better diets today so the real question, what if we are looking for this issue backwards? Instead of worrying about too much Carbon Dioxide, maybe we need to worry about not enough Carbon Dioxide.
Plant life can die out if the overall CO2 levels are less 150 ppm, which nearly happened during the last glacial maximum and we are now at 420 ppm and the question do we still need more? As one observer noted, hothouse growers raise their CO2 between 1000 to 1200 ppm, and food plants like corn and rice grown faster and larger.
One solution of switching to solar and wind-turbine energy and away from fossil fuels for this project will increase energy prices and thus make us poorer. Wealthier nations not only feed their citizens better than developing nations, but they are cleaner environmentally because the extra wealth allows them to spend resources to clean their environment.
Climate science has abandoned the process of traditional science but what we are seeing with Climate science could be described as “Post-Normal Science,” which relies more on computer modeling that about reviewing the empirical evidence and testing out hypotheses. IPCC modeling run hotter than modeling results not supported by what observed by weather-ballon data and satellite data and long-term surface weather records and yet we are basing our policies on the models and models are only good as the variables included. Ken Wilson, a retired engineer noted, “We have been living in the Modern Warm Period since the end of the Little Ice Age (1300-1850). This is a moderate warming trend that is similar in character to that of the Medieval Warm Period about 1,000 years ago, the Roman Warm period about 2,000 years ago, and the Minoan Warm Period about 3,500 years ago. This is all happening within the Holocene Interglacial period, which ended almost 100,000 years of glaciation about 12,000 years ago. At the Holocene maximum, about 6,000 years ago, northern summers were about 4° Celsius warmer than today, almost all the glaciers had melted, a spruce forest was growing at Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, and sea levels were about 2 metres (6 feet) higher than today. We entered a Neoglacial cooling phase about 3,000 years ago. New glaciers began to form during temperature dips like the Little Ice Age.” 1.
One of the more interesting things is that Climate Change isn’t causing more deaths in adverse weather conditions just as hurricanes and tornadoes, but significantly less by more than 90 percent. This improvement is due to increase knowledge that allowed devised warning procedures and a good example of this was Hurricane Ian that hit Florida in 2022. 150 people total died in that hurricane compared to a similar hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas a century earlier and ended up killing 6,000 to 8,000 people.2
6000 deaths compared to 150 is considerable difference and in the case of Ian, Florida was able to fix roads, get the electrical grid back up in as short period of time and even islands off the Florida coast had bridges repaired to ensure food, drugs and supplies were able to get through.
Different researchers have noted that we have witnessed warmer temperatures over the past several millenniums. Among the conclusion includes, “ During the warmest part of the Holocene about 6,000 years ago … summer temperatures were as much as 40C above present. Glaciers disappeared from the Rocky Mountains and other high mountains. They began to reform about 3,000 years ago during a cool episode known as the Neoglacial and further expanded during the Little Ice Age of the past few hundred years.” 39 “It is now recognized that swings in climate after the Neoglacial occur on a roughly 1,000-year periodicity as part of what is known as the millennial scale oscillation. A prominent warm phase occurred 2,000 years ago during the Roman Empire (the Roman Warm Period). The Dark Ages Cold Period of approximately 100 to 800 CE was followed in turn by the Medieval Warm Period, which refers to a few hundred years that peaked around 1000 CE. During this warm period, glaciers retreated, but cooler conditions returned during the Little Ice Age of 1350 to 1850 CE. Mountain glaciers grew worldwide such that in the mid-nineteenth century they were larger than during anytime in the past 10,000 years.”3.
As the chart below shows, we have seen as warm temperatures if not warmer in the last two thousand years. 4
So, what caused this warming period of the past and what caused those colder periods as well? That is a question that should be answered before we decide to essentially wipe out civilization as we know it and return our economy to the medieval periods.
My purpose is not assuming that we need more CO2 only to tell the readers that the science is unsettled and there is much to learn and know before we decided to place radical solutions that could end up killing billions.
The Washington Post in an editorial called for Humans to reengineer the climate to save the planet. “Climate engineering scholars” David Keith and Wake Smith believe that we can have 15 souped up gulfstreams to put 100,000 tons of sulfur in the lower stratosphere to block solar rays only for half billion dollars over five years. Note I put quotation over “Climate engineering scholars” since how can anyone be so stupid to actually consider having governments change the weather. We just witnessed what happened in United Arab Emirates when the government added cloud seeding to a front coming in and flooding resulted.
In the early 1980’s, one study supposedly stated that 100 nuclear wars unleashed at one time would produce a nuclear winter along with the radiation and other impacts of a nuclear war. This was considered a bad thing but now we have “scientists” who want to make this planet colder and produce their version of a nuclear winter only without unleashing nuclear weapons.5.
We live in an era in which up is down and down is up, an upside world in which our so-called experts want a colder planet. Makes no sense but here we are with some of the idiotic ideas to save the planet which would result in the end of civilization as we know it and the Middle class in the developed world grinded into poverty and billions of those in the developing world starving to death and the survivors will merely barely getting by.
Some of the dumb ideas include:
1. Blocking the sun to reduce climate warming what could go wrong? In 1981, Carl Sagan and others warned of a nuclear winter as result of a nuclear exchange with small percentages of nuclear arsenal release. Now the Biden administration is seriously considering plans to do this, introduce a nuclear winter without of the nuclear weapons and supported research by Bill Gates. Remember more people die in cold weather and introducing cold weather would shorten growing season. This will put billions around the world on the verge of starvation.6
2. Reducing farmer yields, taking farmland out of circulations, reducing any use of fossil fuels or nitrogen for fertilizers. Our elites want us to eat bugs in place of meat since raising cows and pigs is bad for the planet. What we are talking about is engineering massive famines beginning in the developing world. 7
3. Eliminate fossil fuels that power our civilization with no replacement. So far EV’s are not selling due to their high cost but despite that the average American don’t want them, the Biden administration will force us to buy them. How do you recharge your EV’s without fossil fuels plant? Without fossil fuels, we are talking about returning our world to the 18th and early 19th centuries. As a result, poverty increase, and economic prosperity declines and that is a best-case scenario.
Just look at some of the ideas and the results is increase poverty and increase death from lack of food, higher food and energy prices, unreliable energy, and widespread poverty. The reality is that many are waking up to the cost of net zero and finding they are not interested in paying the price in higher prices and lower living standards.
Many climates alarmist viewed the Pandemic lockdowns as a model for a future declared climate emergency and never mind the Pandemic lockdowns were a complete failure in stopping the virus and the loss of freedoms and various mandates resulted in loss of businesses and increase excess mortality. This is the plan on a larger scale that is being planned by the climate alarmists.
Sri Lanka has already experimented with these ideas and within two years, the country went from being a food exporter to the food importer, the economy and government collapsed, and people put on the verge of starvation. We had a grand experiment when a warmer climate, a little extra CO2 and rise of free market economy showed that the complete opposite happened, increase prosperity, greener planet, more food being raised, higher GDP per capita. That is what the climate alarmists want to stop and instead replace it with a world with more poverty, people starving in the billions and a decreased standard of living.. We have done our experiments and guess what the climate alarmists want to see happen. The opposite of what will make this a better world.8
Science is unsettled and there is much to learn and discuss and we don’t even know for certain what is the optimal CO2 levels and there is plenty of evidence to suggest we might need more CO2! What we do know is that with the expansion of market economy and as part of the development of market economy, the development of fossil fuels which has led to greatest prosperity the world has seen and while there is much more to do and accomplished, we know that our hope is the continuation and further spread of free market economy worldwide. The only way we will see massive famines and worldwide poverty is to abandon this approach and follow the advice of the so-called climate experts and their economic plan of a control economy. Under just these experts plan, we will see less freedom, less prosperity, more poverty, and massive deaths from starvation. History has shown what works to alleviate poverty and allow us to survive whatever Mother nature imposes on us. And the tragedy is that our “climate experts” and alarmist deny science, the economic data and history in proposing their solutions. They are the true deniers of data and science.
Footnote
- Ken Wilson The IPCC VS. The Facts, The Case for Climate Realism. Reviewed by Paul MacRae.
- National Hurricane Center Tropical Cyclone Report Hurrian Ian April 2023, Hurricane Ian, Wikipedia, 1900 Galveston Hurricane History June 10, 2019.
- Global institutions series, 49) Peter Willetts-Non-Governmental Organisations in World Politics -Routledge (2011).pdf, p76 Pielou, E., p. 273, ‘After the Ice Age – The Return of Life to Glaciated North America’, The University of Chicago Press, 1992. Lewin, Bernie, pp. 229-230, ‘Searching for the Catastrophe Signal: The Origins of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.’ Global Warming Policy Foundation. Kindle Edition. Christy, J., minute 35 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Cd4MLUoN0
- Chart review
- Idiots playing God – by Tom Donelson/ F of F (substack.com)
- . White House cautiously opens the door to study blocking sun’s rays to slow global warming – POLITICO and A Bill Gates Venture Aims To Spray Dust Into The Atmosphere To Block The Sun. What Could Go Wrong? (forbes.com)
- Joe Biden’s Net-Zero Agenda Spells Trouble Down on the Farm and at the Supermarket – Watts Up With That?
- Sri Lanka Begging Russia and India for Fuel: A Nation Wrecked by Green Agricultural Policies – Watts Up With That?, From Sri Lanka to Salinas – Watts Up With That? World in Trouble due to Climate Alarmist Proposals! (substack.com)
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