New Report Pours Cold Water On Major Point Of Climate Cultists
The purveyors of climate doom will not tolerate the good news of our planet thriving because of modest warming and increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide
However, a recent scientific paper concludes that an optimistic vision for Earth and its inhabitants is nonetheless justified.
Widely accepted data show an overall greening of Earth resulting from a cycle of natural warming that began more than 300 years ago and from industrialization’s additions of CO2 that started in the 19th century and accelerated with vigorous economic activity following World War II.
Also attributed to these and other factors is record crop production, which now sustains eight billion people—ten times the population before the Industrial Revolution.
The boost in atmospheric CO2 since 1940 alone is linked to yield increases for corn, soybeans, and wheat of 10, 30 and 40 percent, respectively.
The positive contribution of carbon dioxide to the human condition should be cause for celebration, but this is more than demonizers of the gas can abide.
Right on cue, narrators of a planet supposedly overheating from carbon dioxide began sensationalizing research findings that increased plant volume results in lower concentrations of nutrients in food.
“The potential health consequences are large, given that there are already billions of people around the world who don’t get enough protein, vitamins or other nutrients in their daily diet,” concluded The New York Times, a reliable promoter of apocalypse forever.
Among others chiming in have been The Lancet, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the National Institutes of Health.
Of course, such yellow journalism lacks context and countervailing facts —elements provided in “Nutritive Value of Plants Growing in Enhanced CO2Concentrations,” published by the CO2 Coalition, Arlington, Virginia.
Any deficiency of nutrients from the enhancement of plant growth by elevated carbon dioxide is “small, compared to the nutrient shortages that agriculture and livestock routinely face because of natural phenomena, such as severe soil fertility differences, nutrient dilution in plants due to rainfall or irrigation and even aging of crops,” says the paper.
And while there is evidence of marginal decreases in some nutrients, data also show that higher levels of CO2 “may enhance certain groups of health-promoting phytochemicals in food crops” that serve as antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds, says the paper, which lists seven authors and more than 100 references.
The lead author is Albrecht Glatzle, a member of the Rural Association of Paraguay and a former international researcher of plant and animal nutrition.
Another point made by the paper is:
Throughout the majority of geological history, atmospheric CO2 concentrations have been several times higher than today’s, which are less than optimum for most plants.
Having virtually no scientific basis, the “green” movement’s hostility to carbon dioxide seemingly ignores the gas’s critical role as a plant food.
As the paper notes, “CO2 is the only source of the chemical element carbon for all life on Earth, be it for plants, animals or fungi and bacteria — through photosynthesis and food chains.”
The obvious benefits of CO2 are “an embarrassment to the large and profitable movement to ‘save the planet’ from ‘carbon pollution,’ ” write the authors. “If CO2 greatly benefits agriculture and forestry and has a small, benign effect on climate, it is not a pollutant at all.”
More CO2 is good news. It’s not that complicated.
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About the author: Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist, executive director of the CO2 Coalition, former expert reviewer for the IPCC on their AR6 report. He is the bestselling author of “Inconvenient Facts: The Science that Al Gore doesn’t want you to know”, and “A Very Convenient Warming: How Modest Warming and More CO2 Are Benefiting Humanity”
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Chewy
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Climate Scam
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S.C.
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** The obvious benefits of CO2 are “an embarrassment to the large and profitable movement to ‘save the planet’ from ‘carbon pollution,’ ” **
I doubt it. That’s like embarrassing ticks by revealing them as blood sucking parasites. They will just look for a less obvious place to attach themselves.
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Michael Abbott
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Where is the proof that CO2 is a potent greenhouse gas? All the alarmist models rely on this assertion being a fact but, apart from an experiment in 1859 by Tyndall, There is no proof. Ask these alarmists where their proof is.
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