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The Science That Al Gore Doesn’t Want You To Know
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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, an optimistic vision for Earth and its inhabitants is nonetheless justified.
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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 human additions of CO2 , starting in the 1850s
Also attributed to these and other factors is record crop production, which now sustains 8 billion people— about ten times the population prior to 1800.
The boost in atmospheric CO2 since 1940 is linked to yield increases for corn, soybeans and wheat of 10%, 30% and 40%, respectively.
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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/boiling from carbon dioxide began sensationalizing research findings that increased plant volume results in lesser concentrations of nutrients in food.
“The potential health consequences are significant, given billions of people around the world do not get enough protein, vitamins or other nutrients in their daily diet,” concluded the 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.
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Of course, such journalism is one-sided, lacks context and countervailing facts, such as
“Nutritive Value of Plants Growing in Enhanced CO2 Concentrations,” published by the CO2 Coalition, Arlington, Virginia.
Any deficiency of nutrients from the enhancement of plant growth by increased carbon dioxide “are 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.
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And while there is evidence of marginal decreases in some nutrients, data also show that increased CO2 “may enhance certain groups of health-promoting phyto-chemicals 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.
Among other points made by the paper are the following: Throughout a majority of geological history, atmospheric CO2 concentrations have been several times higher than at present, which are less than optimum for most plants.
Atmospheric warming from even a quadrupling of CO2 concentrations would be small compared to natural temperature fluctuations since the last glaciation which had its coldest point about 26,000 years ago.
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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 carbon for all life on Earth, be it for plants, animals or fungi and bacteria — through photosynthesis and food chains.”
The so-called greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide is perversely exaggerated to support climate fear-mongering
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The obvious benefits of CO2 are an embarrassment to the $trillion per year wind/solar/battery/EV/ hydrogen/CO2 extraction/EV heat pump scam that 1) increases command/control by government over people, and 2) enriches the moneyed elites at the expense of all others.
These elites have been using the unscientific IPCC hoax "CO2 from fossil fuels is boiling the planet" to enrich themselves.
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The benefits of CO2 are increased growth of flora and fauna on land and in the water, and 1) higher crop yields per acre, 2) increased forest growth, 3) increased greening of the earth, less desert areas,
It’s not that complicated.
Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist; executive director of the CO2 Coalition, Arlington, Va.; 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” and a co-author of “Nutritive Value of Plants Growing in Enhanced CO2 Concentrations.”
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