Political tunnel vision on global warming has resulted in declaring increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) an existential threat.
But the United Nations’ resolve to reduce CO2 levels runs counter to its goals to end world hunger, promote world peace, and protect global ecosystems.
It fails to address the key question relating to those three goals: which pathway creates the greatest good to the greatest multitude—reducing or increasing CO2? [emphasis, links added]
The numbers since the year 2000 provide convincing evidence that increasing CO2 has positive impacts and reducing emissions entails dire consequences.
World Hunger
The preindustrial (circa 1850) atmospheric CO2 concentration of 280 PPM (parts per million) compares to today’s 420 PPM, a 50% increase. Meanwhile, the global population has risen 560%, from 1.2 billion to 8 billion.
Those extra 6.8 billion people are mostly being fed, and it’s not all because of human agricultural productivity, pest control, and plant genetics.
Observations of Earth’s vegetative cover since the year 2000 by NASA’s Terra satellite show a 10% increase in vegetation in the first 20 years of the century.
Clearly, something other than agriculture is helping to improve overall plant growth.
In a recent study supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Dr. Charles Taylor and Dr. Wolfram Schlenker quantified how much of that extra greening resulted in food for human consumption since 2000.
Using satellite imagery of U.S. cropland, they estimated that a 1 ppm increase in CO2 led to an increase of 0.4%, 0.6%, and 1% in yield for corn, soybeans, and wheat, respectively.
They also extrapolated back to 1940 and suggested that the 500% increased yield of corn and 200% increased yield of soybeans and winter wheat are largely attributable to the 100 ppm increase in CO2 since then.
CO2 fertilization is not only greening the Earth, but it’s also feeding the very fertile human race.
World Peace
Though adding CO2 to the atmosphere does not promote world peace, attempts to stop CO2 emissions in Western democracies have increased the CO2 emissions, wealth, and influence of totalitarian Russia and China.
Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union (EU), reports that the EU’s reliance on imported natural gas increased from 15.5% of its energy needs in 2000 to 22.5% by 2020.
Russia was the main supplier of Europe’s natural gas. Holding Europe’s energy security in its pipelines not only helped finance Russia’s 2021 invasion of Ukraine but also limited the economic sanctions Europe could impose in retaliation.
According to the scientific online publication Our World in Data, between 2000 and 2020 the G7 nations lost 13.8% of the world share of GDP, and China picked up 12%.
The West (the EU plus the UK, U.S., Canada, and Japan) transferred GDP growth to China and energy security to Russia and was able to reduce CO2 emissions from 45% of the global total in 2000 to 25% in 2020.
In the same period, China’s CO2 emissions grew from 14% of the total to 31%, leading to an increase of 39% in total CO2 global emissions.
The unintended consequence of the West’s attempts to reduce CO2 emissions has been to shore up Chinese and Russian dictatorships—and in Russia’s case, to partly fund the invasion of a sovereign and democratic neighbor, Ukraine.
World Ecology
Much of the human footprint on Earth is where the products we consume originate: we either grow them on the planet’s surface or extract them from within its crust.
In testimony to the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce in 2021, Mark Mills, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, estimated that replacing each unit of hydrocarbon energy with “clean tech” energy would on average result in the extraction of five to 10 times more materials from the Earth than does hydrocarbon production.
Mills also pointed out that Chinese firms dominate the production and processing of many critical rare earth elements and that nearly all the growth in mining is expected to be abroad, increasingly in fragile, biodiverse wilderness areas.
Decarbonization will impose the heavy environmental cost of an unprecedented increase in mining.
One Last Number
Since El Niño induced a modern peak global average temperature in 1998, global warming has been essentially zero.
The numbers don’t lie. Allowing more CO2 emissions is better for ending world hunger, promoting world peace, and protecting global ecosystems.
Ron Barmby, Professional Engineer with a master’s degree majoring in geosciences, had a 40-year career in the energy industry that covered 40 countries and five continents. He is the author of “Sunlight on Climate Change: A Heretic’s Guide to Global Climate Hysteria” and is a proud member of the CO2 Coalition, Arlington, Virginia.
Re “democracies”
Any alleged expert or layperson who talks about “democracies” AS IF a real democracy ACTUALLY EXISTS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD (or has existed at any time in ‘human civilization’) is evidently repeating mindlessly and blindly the propaganda fed to them since they were a kid and/or is part of the (unconscious, ignorant, naive, willful) crowd who disseminates this total lie because any “democracy” of ‘human civilization’ has always been a covert structure of the rule of a few over the many operating behind the pretense name and facade of a “democracy”: http://www.CovidTruthBeKnown.com (or https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html)
“There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. […]. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies […]. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable laws of business. The world is a business […].” — from the 1976 movie “Network”
“We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” — Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice
Does anyone still not see how the deadly game on the foolish public is played … or still does not WANT to see it?
In terms of “experts” or “awake” folks who sell you the fake program of democracies…
“All experts serve the state and the media and only in that way do they achieve their status. Every expert follows his master, for all former possibilities for independence have been gradually reduced to nil by present society’s mode of organization. The most useful expert, of course, is the one who can lie. With their different motives, those who need experts are falsifiers and fools. Whenever individuals lose the capacity to see things for themselves, the expert is there to offer an absolute reassurance.” —Guy Debord
Isn’t it about time for anyone to wake up to the ULTIMATE DEPTH of the human rabbit hole — rather than remain blissfully willfully ignorant in a narcissistic fantasy land and play victim like a little child?
“We’ll know our Disinformation Program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” —William Casey, a former CIA director=a leading psychopathic criminal of the genocidal US regime
“Separate what you know from what you THINK you know.” — Unknown
For an abundance of clarity, it is noted in the article links the temperature data base I used was UAH, which can be found here https://www.drroyspencer.com/. It a satellite based data base and has the many advatages over surface based data of almost 100% coverage of the globe on a regular basis, the same instrumentation measuring the air temperature at the same level. The raw data is in the public domain and it is accessible to all researchers for verification. It does not need to be corrected for urban heat island effect, nor merged suface water temperatures with air temperatures, corrected for different instruments used in different countries, and it does not have the massive data gaps over the oceans that are largely interpolated in terrestial/marine data bases.The satellite measurements can and are verified by weather balloon data. The level which satellites measures the air temperature is the same altitude (lower troposphere) that the IPCC models (which do not use satellite temperature data) predict global warming will be initiated in hot spots in the lower troposphere. None have been detected. Please go the the Dr. Roy Spencer website and look at the red line of temerature data. There is no existential climate crisis when looking at the unadulterated raw data.
And what does Roy Spencer tell us? That both May and June 2023 anomolies were way above the average for those 2 months. AND since he began his satellite recordings, the earth has been warming at 0.13C degrees per decade. This happens to be exactly between the 0.12 to 0.14C trend all the other recording organizations have.
The point is, ALL existing recording organizations mirror each other to a remarkable degree even though some are in Japan, the US and England and some are sattelite based.
Bottom line? There is no climate change fraud except within tabloids like Climate Change Dispatch.
Banning CO2 will kill the planet without co2 no plantlife no plant life no Herbavors no Herbavors no Carnivors No Carnivors Dead Earth all over a totally fake threat
Perhaps the stupidest comment ever made on this site
And that is saying something
Sorry Pinhead but the Earth is Not Fragile nor is Nature Delicately Balanced
Wrongo Bozo
The reason why virtually the entire scientific community has been warning us about man-made CO2 for so long is BECAUSE earth’s climate is so fragile.
And no one has ever suggesting “banning” all CO2 as you stated.
More name calling. That’s when Lib bots are driving off a cliff with opaque logic.
After all, no CO2 is a good thing. Never mind the fact that plants convert it to Oxygen and thus thrive and grow faster with more CO2 (ala an actual greenhouse). Still only conjecture that higher CO2 is actually bad, or a little warmer is bad let alone unprecedented.
C’mon Drewski, China whataboutism?
It’s so obvious. Despite dynamiting our smoke stacks and planting expensive wind turbines, you admit that it’s fruitless. The temperature continues to increase. How many more wind turbines will it take to cool the Earth?
Wind happens to be the CHEAPEST form of new power generation (new as in newly commissioned) and is exploding across the country. Texas, yes Texas, derives more than 30% of its total electricity from wind. In 10 years, 20 other states will do the same.
Won’t make a dang difference to the Earth’s temperature. Texas has a lot of scrub land where it’s windy. Texans are smart. Harness their abundant wind and sell their oil and gas. Take Washington’s subsidies and party,party,party.
One trick to make wind appear to be inexpensive is to ignore the cost of keeping stand by power available for when the wind doesn’t blow. Wind power often requires additional transmission lines at great cost. This is also ignored. I suspect that the cost of replacing the turbines is also ignored. They last half the time as a conventional power plant.
If wind and solar power are so cheap, then why have there been two 15% increases in my power bill to cover the cost of the mandate to use more renewable power?
Wind is only cheap if it hits the production levels and last (are duarable) as long as originally projected. Neither is happening. But keep up with the lies about how cheap wind power is.
No moron, it is not.
The reason why wind power has grown by more than 1000% in less than a decade is because it is CHEAP and durable. Do you really believe Texas, Iowa and South Dakota would not do their homework first?
Name calling, that is when I know I am right. Thank you!
You must be referring to the free Energy from wind! It’s free! Right?
Except it is not. And Wind never meets the name plate production, unless everything aligns perfectly. And the mechanical gears on the colossal windmills are wearing out faster than expected greatly increasing maintenance costs.
But it is free!
Just keep telling the lies and it becomes fact.
“The past three days (July 3, 4, 5) were quite likely the hottest in Earth’s modern history, scientists said on Thursday, as an astonishing surge of heat across the globe continued to shatter temperature records from North America to Antarctica.”
Time for this misinformation site to shut down.
Yes indeed. There’s those anonymous scientists again. China isn’t listening, doesn’t care for some reason. Could it be that they’re smarter than us, immune to the machinations of the IPCC, the UN and the WEF?
These are the same scientists that have been writing PUBLIC studies for the past 40 years warning us of the consequences of adding more and more heat-trapping gas into the atmosphere.
And I love your attempt at China “whataboutism” when this site does nothing but peddle misinformation.
Water vapor is the number one heat trapping gas in the atmosphere but it also cools the atmosphere through evaporation. Perhaps you would like to explain to us how carbon dioxide that comprises such a minute amount of all the gasses overpowers the overwhelming abundance of water vapor in the atmosphere that keeps our planet in the livable zone. Please explain!
I am aware of water vapor. Are you aware that CO2 absorbs longwave radiation at different wavelengths to H2O (some overlap) but also that the places that are warming fastest (poles and deserts) are where humidity is lowest?
Water vapor is in %, which is 10,000 ppm for every one %. CO2 is around 400 ppm. Water has a much larger impact on local weather and climate. Why are humid tropical climates warm at night while desserts cool down greatly? Water vapor.
Of course water vapor has the greater effect in most regions but man is not making more of it UNLESS the atmosphere warms up. Man has made 40% more atmospheric CO2 in less than 2 centuries and even though the percentage is small, the effect is great ESPECIALLY at those wave lengths which humidity does not absorb.
NASA’s data of today does not agree with its own data of 15 years ago. It has been altered to makes things warmer. The climate change movement certainly wants to keep this quiet so there is reason so shut this site down.
Whatever warming we have can not be caused by carbon dioxide. The ability of the gas to warm the earth is a declining logarithmic curve and we are at the point were large increases in the gas only causes a very small increase in warming. Again, this information needs to be kept quiet so this site should be shut down.
A year ago Antarctica had the lowest temperature since records started. Again, this information must be blocked.
Moronic
I won’t ask for EVIDENCE because I know you have none but consider that there are other temperature-recording organizations which almost mirror NASA – NOAH, BEST, UAH, RSS, JAXA and HadCRU.
Are they all wrong?
Fraud in data relating to climate change is so common that even some alarmists acknowledge it. One article documenting the fraud by NASA is here.
https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/global-temperature-record-is-a-smoking-gun-of-collusion-and-fraud/
Fraud by NOAA is documented here.
https://realclimatescience.com/2018/10/noaa-data-tampering-update/
This article shows use of flawed data by both.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/nasa-noaa-climate-flawed-data/
NOAA altered the data for the 1930’s.
https://climaterealism.com/2021/08/july-set-record-for-noaa-temperature-doctoring-not-heat/
There are other examples.
I don’t have data on BEST, UAH, RSS, JAXA and HadCRU, but if their conclusions mirror NASA’s it is logical that they are also using fraud. All of these organizations are controlled by liberals, and liberals are willing to lie to support the climate change movement.
There is fraud else where, such as Australia
https://climatechangedispatch.com/sydney-hottest-ever-mistake-generates-worldwide-fake-news/
The fraud is something that men are doing. The earth knows nothing about it. The earth has been naturally warming since the end of the mini ice age and in the process of continuing to warm it would be expected to reach highest temperature ever. However, due to the fraud we have no way of knowing how much warming we have. One thing we can be sure of is carbon dioxide not a factor.
Of all the charlatans out there, Steven Goddard (aka Tony Heller) is the WORST! He is a bald-faced liar. In fact,
he is so bad that he was booted off the WUWT website by Anthony Watts himself for posting embarrassing misinformation (imagine that?). BTW, Watts personally conducted a Surface Station Study a decade ago on the accuracy of recording stations. Result? He BOLSTERED NASA and NOAA records.
Steve Goddard refuses to have ANY of his thousands of articles and “scientific papers” peer-reviewed by actual scientists. He is a con artist preying on easily deluded.
Want to try someone else?
That’s right! Everyone that says anything Drewski and the Lib bots disagree with are Charlatans! Everyone ruining priceless art works and disrupting traffic are heroes!
There is a preponderance of information showing temperature data has been altered and this has been known for a long time. One democratic congresswoman acknowledged it but then went on to advocate that we use the altered data to set national policy. One article that I lost the reference to was a man who monitored current readings of temperature stations kept by NOAA. He noticed that some stations would have true data replaced by the status that the data was missing. Then a few days later the station would be populated by simulated data that was half a degree warmer than the original. Technicians in Australia have confessed to taking readings from field stations and adding half a degree.
The reason for making a big deal of the earth’s current temperature is the assumption that mankind’s emissions are driving it. This clearly is not true with carbon dioxide. This is a powerful green house gas. However, most of this ability is in the first 20 ppm. When it gets out to 420 ppm, increasing the concentration has negligible impact on warming. Thus, Biden’s plan to required carbon dioxide capture on fossil fuel power plants would add significant cost to electric power for no benefit.
Temperature data was RECALIBRATED not altered. When instrumentation changes from analog to digital or if some stations record in the morning and others in the afternoon, it was necessary to make the readings uniform. HOWEVER, there is a subset of pristine recording stations that have never been “altered” and they show an even GREATER temperature trend.
You know, Anthony Watts spent years complatining about the same issues you raised and he did his own Surface Station Study to “expose the fraud” but, unfortunately, it turned into massive embarrassment to the denialist community. So Watts decided to do a second version. Result? He buried the results before they could be peer-reviewed. That was about 10 years ago and he never brings up the subject anymore. Apparently, the only person trying to resurrect that fantasy these days is Steve Goddard (but he refuses to submit to peer-review – convenient eh?).