Posted on 12/24/2019 5:40:35 AM PST by Libloather
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CO2 is a byproduct of many different types of human activity and, as we continue to destroy forests and foliage that help scrub the air and provide humans and other animals with breathable air, the amount of CO2 in our air gradually climbs. Studies have shown that too much CO2 in the air can trigger cognitive issues, decreasing the ability of a person to focus and hinder learning.
Getting a few breaths of oxygen-rich “fresh” air tends to clear that up, but in a future where fresh air becomes harder and harder to come by, it could lead to an overall “dumbening” of the human race. For the study, researchers simulated two different future scenarios. In both, students would perform various tasks in rooms where the air has different concentrations of CO2. Based on established data regarding how CO2 impacts cognition, the researchers crunched the numbers and came up with some pretty scary results.
It’s just a theoretical experiment, but the scenario the researchers used assumes that humans are unable to curb their CO2 emissions by the year 2100. We’d hope that wouldn’t be the case, but things were to play out in this way, the amount of CO2 in the air would lead to a 50 percent reduction in cognitive ability.
A future where the human race is even dumber? Sounds about right.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
That explains AOC and the Squad, they got a big Head Start on all of us.
Well, since we are believing in fairy tales with no scientific backing and making saints out of imbeciles,
I'd have to say I agree with that statement.
Northern Europeans in the period after the Renaissance lived in stuffy rooms heated by wood fires, and infested with mold and made the most astounding and profound scientific discoveries and advances history.
Too bad Isaac Newton couldn’t have lived in a studio apartment in San Francisco instead of his stuffy rooms in Cambridge. He might have accomplished something.
The poorest person in Flint, Michigan today has cleaner air, better water and access to a better diet than anyone alive a mere two hundred years ago. The fault, dear Bernie, lies not in our air, but in our hearts, that we fail so miserably to match the accomplishments of our ancestors.
“Submarines routinely operate with higher levels of ambient carbon dioxide (CO2) (i.e., 2000 - 5000 ppm) than what is typically considered normal (i.e., 400 - 600 ppm). Although significant cognitive impairments are rarely reported at these elevated CO2 levels, recent studies using the Strategic Management Simulation (SMS) test have found impairments in decision-making performance during acute CO2 exposure at levels as low as 1000 ppm. This is a potential concern for submarine operations, as personnel regularly make mission-critical decisions that affect the safety and efficiency of the vessel and its crew while exposed to similar levels of CO2. The objective of this study was to determine if submariner decision-making performance is impacted by acute exposure to levels of CO2 routinely present in the submarine atmosphere during sea patrols.”
“RESULTS:
There were no significant differences for any of the nine SMS measures of decision making between the CO2 exposure conditions.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29789085
Acute Exposure to Low-to-Moderate Carbon Dioxide Levels and Submariner Decision Making.
I looked at the calendar, and sure enough, it’s not April 1! The “scientists” who did this idiotic study need to take a deep breath and relax.
First of all, they don’t even believe in their own study. They used the words “suggests” and “could,” two of the strongest weasel words.
A high concentration of CO2 has an effect on the body, overall, which leads to difficulty doing cognitive tasks, just as a hangover or lack of sleep affects one’s ability to pass an exam.
Actually, it’s device use
Yes.
Evidenced by the number of people who believe in 'Climate change'.
Who is this moron? What a putz!
btt LOL
Why wait until 2100. Just reading this article has shaved off 15 IQ points. If I read it again I won’t even be able to make breakfast.
At this point if there were a huge planet killing asteroid headed to Earth I’d crack open a beer and watch. It’d be kind of welcome after so many years of garbage.
Until I glanced at the article, I thought the author was going to argue that hot weather is the enemy of civilization....
There’s a hockey stick chart that correlates the rise in CO2 with a corresponding huge rise in leftist nitwits. But they have it backwards, the leftist nitwits are generating all the CO2 with their big mouths.
Science is so much easier if you just make stuff up and say it was done in a computer.
“At this point if there were a huge planet killing asteroid headed to Earth I’d crack open a beer and watch.”
That WOULD BE the most sensible thing to do considering that whatever you did would have no effect on your immediate future. You may as well drink that beer before it is destroyed.
Have you noticed that the coastlines are under 20 ft of water? Have you noticed the palm trees and alligators growing in Minnesota? Have you noticed that the polar caps have melted? Me neither.
The air we breathe, or the atmosphere is made up of Nitrogen 78%, Oxygen 21%, and Argon at .934%. So 99.934 % of air is made up of Nitrogen, Oxygen, and Argon. The remaining 13 trace elements total .066% of the atmosphere. Carbon Dioxide is roughly .033% of those trace elements. That’s .033 thousandths of a percent. Wake me when the oxygen level goes below 21%.
The present concentration of CO2 is about 0.04%, or 400 ppm. Imagine a stadium with 10,000 people in it, everyone is dressed in white. Very nearly all 10,000 people dressed in white (all atmospheric gases) except for 4 people barely visible, way over on the edge, who are dressed in green. That's the CO2 in our atmosphere.
You could nearly quadruple that and have -0-, zero, negative effect on human comfort or health, because CO2 is neither a poison nor a pollutant. And optimizing it to about 1500 ppm would cause a significant increase in sheer photosynthetic biomass ---marine and aquatic flora, trees, shrubs, crops, all kinds of foliage ---- resulting a small and safe, but mood-boosting and mentally-stimulating O2 boost.
These poor so-called "researchers." They must have their heads up their--- asterisk.
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