Politics Disguised as Science: When to Doubt a Scientific ‘Consensus’

The Stream ^ | Jay Richards

[exDemMom]

I do not know how fast the end is coming, but it IS coming.

If the climate change alarmists get their way, the end will come sooner rather than later.

Carbon dioxide is essential for life on earth because every living thing is made of molecules that started out as carbon dioxide. In the distant past, the atmospheric content of carbon dioxide was much higher than today (in the percent range, not ppm range). Throughout geologic history, various processes have locked that carbon dioxide into forms that are not biologically available, decreasing the quantity of carbon available to living organisms. The low concentration of CO2 in the air makes it more difficult for plants to use--just like you would have trouble breathing if the oxygen content of the air dropped. If the global warming activists get their way and implement these "carbon sequestration" schemes on a large scale, thereby pulling CO2 out of the air, plants will start to die off. Then everything that depends on plants will start to die off, too. I'm afraid that "global warming" activism is an existential threat to life on earth.

[Skooz]

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