Climate Alarmist War On Nitrous Oxide Threatens The Global Food Supply

American Thinker ^ | 07/11/2023 | Jerome Corsi

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In November 2022, four eminent scientists issued a theoretical physics paper, “Nitrous Oxide and Climate.” It proves that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s “war on nitrous oxide” to achieve Net Zero Emissions (NZE) by 2050 threatens to cause a significant collapse in the world’s food supply.

The article’s four authors are eminent men in their field, so their analysis and opinion deserve to be taken very seriously: (1) C.A. de Lange, a physicist at Vrije Universiteit, in Amsterdam; (2) J.D. Ferguson, an M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, with a specialty in developing computer models of the effect of nitrogen fertilizers on dairy farming; (3) William Happer, emeritus professor of physics at Princeton; and (4) W.A. van Wijngaarden, a professor of physics at York University in Canada.

All four are staunch critics of the IPCC war to expand the hysterical climate attack on carbon dioxide (CO₂) to include demonizing nitrous oxide (N₂O) and methane (CH₄), which are classed as “minor greenhouse gases.” The report concludes with a compelling truth: “It is not possible to maintain highly productive agriculture without nitrogen fertilizer.” It’s a genuinely frightening thought that the neo-Marxists at the heart of today’s climate hysteria have chosen to attack N₂O because millions will die if governments ban nitrogen fertilizers. The neo-Marxist ideologues are willing to manipulate existential climate fear in their insane willingness to kill millions if that’s what is required to negate capitalism.

Famine from the Palazzo Abatellis. Photo © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro / CC BY-SA 4.0.

The scientists’ core argument completely negates the IPCC’s hysteria. The data establish that the minimal impact of N₂O and CH4 on Earth’s temperature does not risk a collapse in the global food chain.

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They write:

Since the biosphere is the main source of the minor greenhouse gases, nitrous oxide and methane, agriculture has been targeted with various regulations that will supposedly “save the planet” from climate change. The planet is not in danger from greenhouse gases. But some of the regulations to address this non-problem are of great concern since they will drastically cut food supplies for the world.

[Yo-Yo]

Climate Alarmist War On Nitrous Oxide Threatens The Global Food Supply

No more Redi-Whip?!?

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The core argument of these scientific authors is this:

The point is that greenhouse gases prevent all the heat from the solar irradiance the Earth absorbs during the day from escaping to outer space at night. Without greenhouse gases, the Earth would most likely not be habitable for human life. Radiative forcing is measured scientifically in W m-2, i.e., in watts per square meter irradiance.

N2O is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 because N2O absorbs more escaping irradiance, but N2O is much less plentiful than CO2 in the atmosphere. N2O’s contribution to radiative forcing is about 1/13 that of CO2.

A significant conclusion of the paper is that the observed rates of increase of N2O “pose no threat whatsoever to climate.” The authors base this conclusion “on the well-established principles of radiation transfer, which shows that for current growth rates, the contribution of N2O to warming is only about 6% that of all greenhouse gases.” Thus, they estimate that “the absolute warming rate from N2O is about 0.064 C [Celsius] per century.” This means that imposing rigorous regulations to eliminate nitrogen fertilizers from agriculture would be reckless, given the minuscule contribution of N2O at current emission rates to global warming.

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The core argument of these scientific authors is this:

The point is that greenhouse gases prevent all the heat from the solar irradiance the Earth absorbs during the day from escaping to outer space at night. Without greenhouse gases, the Earth would most likely not be habitable for human life. Radiative forcing is measured scientifically in W m-2, i.e., in watts per square meter irradiance.

N2O is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 because N2O absorbs more escaping irradiance, but N2O is much less plentiful than CO2 in the atmosphere. N2O’s contribution to radiative forcing is about 1/13 that of CO2.

A significant conclusion of the paper is that the observed rates of increase of N2O “pose no threat whatsoever to climate.” The authors base this conclusion “on the well-established principles of radiation transfer, which shows that for current growth rates, the contribution of N2O to warming is only about 6% that of all greenhouse gases.” Thus, they estimate that “the absolute warming rate from N2O is about 0.064 C [Celsius] per century.” This means that imposing rigorous regulations to eliminate nitrogen fertilizers from agriculture would be reckless, given the minuscule contribution of N2O at current emission rates to global warming.

[meyer]

The biggest threat to the global food supply is having to share it with the globalist WEF-demo-commie-RINO-cRATS.

[Yo-Yo]

It is the supposedly much more powerful greenhouse effect of CH₄ over CO₂ molecule for molecule that has driven the war against cattle ranching.

But by far the most powerful greenhouse gas in the atmosphere is H₂O.

[rlmorel]

BFL

[Steely Tom]

The sea-level density of nitrous oxide is 1.977 g/L.

The sea-level density of the atmosphere 1.225 g/L.

Nitrous oxide will sink to the ground. It can't rise into the upper atmosphere, where it can act as a greenhouse gas.

That's all.

[rktman]

Should hungry folks declare war on these climageddonists? Maybe drop some cluster broccoli?

[rktman]

The second paragraph pretty much tells you why these grant whores are spewing this crap. Hey eminent assclowns.....🖕

[Pajamajan]

Should the UN be declared a terrorist organization?

[rktman]

READ THEN COMMENT! DOH! Slinking into a corner. I shall remain in the corner for two hours. 😵😳🤔👍

[Deaf Smith]

Case study should be Sri Lanka and their ban of synthetic fertilizers in May 2021.

*It is not going very well for that country.

[cymbeline]

“[Nitrous oxide] can’t rise into the upper atmosphere, where it can act as a greenhouse gas.”

Why can’t it be a greenhouse gas lower in the atmosphere? I’m not disputing - just don’t know.

[butlerweave]

“[Nitrous oxide] can’t rise into the upper atmosphere, where it can act as a greenhouse gas.”

and make the planet laugh(laughing gas) ?

[butlerweave]

Important natural sources include soils under natural vegetation and the oceans. Natural sources create 62% of total emissions.

[metmom]

Exactly as intended.

[Steely Tom]

It can be a greenhouse gas lower in the atmosphere.

It's just that the amount of heat it can absorb won't be very great, as there won't be that much of it for sunlight (rays carrying solar energy for heating) to go through.

The amount of path length available for absorption of solar energy isn't very large if it's all near Earth's surface.

[griffin]

ALL THE GASSES ARE DESTROYING OUR ATMOSPHERE!!

[Larry Lucido]

No more Fast and Furious movies.