Nature craves more carbon dioxide
Government policies to force drastic cuts in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, out of fear of CO2 as a “pollutant”, are
insane—a fact underscored by recent testimony before the U.S. Senate by award-winning Princeton University physicist Dr.
Will Happer.
In the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearings on 25th February, Dr. Happer declared man-made global
warming fears were “mistaken” and noted that the Earth is currently in a “CO2 famine.”
Dr. Happer stands alongside more than 31,000 scientists who have signed a petition opposing the quack science of global
warming—a petition which makes the specific point that “there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in
atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth.”
The global average atmospheric CO2 concentration is currently a tiny 387 ppm (parts per million)—just a trace gas—and
trees and plants are craving for more, yet fools are threatening to decimate our economy, in order to reduce this
life-giving gas. In the last 600 million years of Earth's history, only the Carboniferous Period (approximately 300
million years ago) and our present age, the Quaternary Period, have witnessed CO2 levels less than 400 ppm.
Commercial greenhouse operators are advised to add enough CO2 to maintain about 1,000 ppm around their plants. Carbon
dioxide generators for greenhouse operators produce CO2 by burning liquid propane or natural gas. The healthy plants
respond just as plants have responded for most of the history of life on earth when CO2 concentrations were naturally
this high, if not higher.
The dinosaurs survived just fine when CO2 concentrations exceeded 2,000 ppm and 450 million years ago, late in the
Ordovician Period, the earth went into an Ice Age when carbon dioxide levels exceeded 4,000 ppm—so much for CO2 induced
global warming! Coral has thrived throughout these enormous natural climatic and atmospheric changes.
Exhaled human breath contains about 4% CO2. That is 40,000 ppm—levels which carbon reduction fanatics would consider to
be concentrated pollution.
Any carbon tax, or emissions trading scheme (cap-and-trade) would destroy essential industries and the human population
which depends upon those industries, on the basis of a clear fraud, and therefore must be vigorously opposed.
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