The normal amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has been between 1,000 and 4,000 parts per million (ppm) for more than 500 million years — the entire Phanerozoic Eon, the Eon of Life, from the first emergence of complex plants and animals until and including now. Today the CO2 concentration is ~400 ppm, one tenth of former levels.
This
alarmism is incredibly ignorant. We live in the Pleistocene Epoch, a.k.a. the
Ice Ages. There have been at least 18 major glacial stadials in the
Pleistocene, times when continental ice sheets have covered much of the
Northern Hemisphere. Not since the Permian Epoch of 240 million years ago has
Planet Earth been this cold. During all the Epochs following the Permian, save
our own, Planet Earth has been 5 to 12 C warmer. The normative temperature for
this planet is much warmer than today.
Life
prefers warmth. Warmer is Better for living things. The most abundant life,
with the greatest productivity and diversity of plants and animals, is near the
Equator. The least is near the poles, and in the case of Antarctica an entire
continent is entirely lifeless. A warmer planet would have longer growing
seasons, more rain, more bio-productivity, and more agricultural productivity.
Deserts would bloom. Life would burgeon, as it did in prior Epochs when the
Earth was warmer.
The
warmest period in geologic history was the Paleocene from 66 to 56 million
years ago. It is speculated that the globe was 12C warmer than today. Instead
of living things burning up and the seas boiling into outer space, the
Paleocene was the Dawn of the Mammals. There were polar forests. The tropics
were rich with new plant and animal genera, the forebears of today’s species.
The Angiosperms (flowering plants) displaced the conifers and became dominant.
Insects that pollinated the flowers also diversified. Birds, evolved from the
extinct dinosaurs, flourished. The warmest Epoch in geologic history was the
most life-abundant.
The
CO2 Will Warm Us To Death Theory is total crackpottery. All of geologic history
refutes it.
https://wmbriggs.com/post/35235/
Link at Western Rifle Shooters.
A comment at the site from Sean – “There are many previous civilizations that our scientists have dug up or discovered. They make educated guesses at what these peoples did, how they lived, and as to what caused them to abandon their cities/civilizations, and disappear. We can’t really know the whole truth about these long gone peoples, but we can make intelligent theories about them. I believe one truth about them, is that they engaged at some point in their history, in the kind of self-destructive arrogance based on nothing but rubbish that we see so much of now. And that is what I see for ‘modern’ man’s ending in our future. But it is only a theory, based on what logic I have."
Comment: Me -- So testified to by those who started the Tower in Babylon. "We can reach God. We can BE God."
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