In what passes today as the 21st Century (a meaningless counter of time, based on no discernible origin point whatsoever – try to find the year ‘zero’ anywhere or attach any realistic reason to it) it has become fashionable (another virtueless descriptor for temporary fads or passing fancies) to label one of the Earth’s essential substances as being the primary target for human anger and negative attention in what is declared as the war against climate (why must everything be thought of in terms of combat? Is nothing ‘natural’ these days?), with vast sums being spent, supposedly, with the intent of reducing CO2 to a level which modern foolishness considers would render life on the planet to be ‘safe’ – whatever that means.
The Drama Of ‘Science’
While trying my best not to be melodramatic I have to declare all of this expensive and wasteful fuss and bother around CO2 to be Fairy Fluff and Candy Floss. In other words, pure nonsense. But it is not that of course – that is just its outer layer. It is a deliberate plan to continue the Global Corporatist’s schemes for raking in vast profits out of a situation perfectly manufactured to place the human population in a state of fear for their lives. It is a brilliant scheme, actually, and also the perfect murder plot (I may explain that later if time permits). How and why the people of the world (not all of them by any means, but sufficient for the idea to be commonly accepted) would be fooled into believing a story so full of holes as to resemble a sieve, is beyond reckoning. They, the perpetrators of the lie, have even dealt with the inevitable dissent issue – which always arises around all science statements today (inevitably centred around money), since that group of supposedly aware and awake humans who first unsuccessfully tried to bring the climate issue (or ‘a’ climate issue) to the world’s attention decades ago – aggressively fought against by the same corporate groups who now champion the notion (having ‘seen’ the profit angle in it) – are already convinced of its apparent reality. The original dissent group – who used to be called ‘climate alarmists’ by the skeptics (who, incidentally, are mostly still skeptical – and who have now been revealed to have been right, from the beginning) having now well-entrenched views on the topic, will take some time to convince themselves how fooled they were by ‘the science’. Although the recent Covid fiasco, where ‘the science’ once again failed, and fooled, the world, may aid some alarmists to come around to a stronger attachment to their other basic tenet, that of anything which big-business supports is, of necessity, untrue and unjust, for everyone but big-business. That, and a good hard look at ‘the science’, is what turned me around from being a climate activist, to believe there is actually no imminent risk to humanity (at least none that can be remedied – there always being some risk to life and limb from completely natural conditions in a very physical world) from the natural movements and cycles of our planet’s always changing climatic conditions. Though such changes are mostly hidden from us due to our largely inbred inability to see beyond the end of our noses – either forward or backward. Or, in fact, in any direction.
Hmm… that’s a big paragraph, with few sentences. But I will leave it as is, because that is how it spilled from my mind to end up here to be either ignored or read and contemplated, at the visitor’s discretion.
The Ignoramuses That We Are
So, what is the actual situation on climate and in particular, on CO2? The answer is not difficult or even hard to find.
It is just that – and you are not going to like this – the current generation of humans, eight billion of us now, and why is that not considered a bigger issue than climate perturbances? [But that is not what I am here to discuss today. So no more will be said here] Sorry, I will begin the previous sentence again because it is incomplete, waylaid by an errant thought. It is just that – and you are still not going to like this – the current generation of humans (no matter how many of us there are), have been bred, fed, doped, educated and entertained, into a state of unawareness, docility and complicity perhaps never seen before in the entire history of modern man. Especially in what are described as the western nations – where much of the world’s make-believe money and financial manipulations are conjured and turned and used to line the pockets of just a few ‘manipulators’ intent on re-making the world in their own image – where ‘profit’ trumps ‘people’ every time and in every deal. Rendering ‘people’ to the same level as other animals and viewing them as disposable assets – the number of which can be adjusted, at will, to suit manipulator’s needs. Human beings are being bred and trained to be not only dim-witted and stupefied but to hold strong but ill-informed opinions and, in a state of attained ignorance, to vociferously and arrogantly self-assert exactly that of which they hold no real knowledge. Have you noticed that those able to speak loudest and boldest are also some of the most ignorant and stupid? From media personalities to politicians to social group organisers, militants and do-gooders, to name just a few of the frontrunner groups who constantly bombard the rest with their faulty narrative – as determined by the manipulators. This automated and systemic production of generations of largely 1st grade ignoramuses (children of the rich may not be affected – they have the opportunity and the means to opt out to a better deal) is not to say that these people are at fault for their own debasement. Nothing of the kind. Many have no other choice but to take such choices as they are offered and they are told they have the freedom to choose – but they don’t really. This is of course just another of the many lies of western democracy, as verified by the production of great minds and more balanced peoples in other regions of the world – leaving the west trailing behind in all aspects of societal enrichment – in the results of recent decades within other democratic systems. The falling away of western nations due to their using flawed science as a basis for distortion of truth has been proven and tested over a number of recent years and decades, the widely disparate results emerging for all to see. For example, take the issue of climate change. It was a largely western meme, a science-based (their own faulty science) outpouring of near-sighted, alarmist, truth-bending on a scale never seen before. That has been just to develop a state of mind in the population, of reliance on and compliance to, authority, in whatever forms that emerges or transforms. More recently there has been the great Covid fraud. From which two goals were achieved. First to test and measure the results of enforced complicity to dictatorial rules across societies, and a willingness to be confined in some way, to restrict freedom of movement. Secondly to measure social acceptance of untested technology-engineered substances through mandated injections falsely labelled as ‘vaccines’. Both tests demonstrated a high initial level of acceptance and complicity, among the more dim-witted and compliant at least. It also showed the levels of severity to which authoritarian governments were prepared to go to enforce complicity. It showed they are prepared to destroy the lives and incomes of dissident elements in their determination to enforce submission on a frightened populace. The only reasons for fear and compliance all relate to ignorance. If people only knew, actually had a solid basis for understanding what was going on, they would not comply. The process is bound to be repeated – but next time with more drastic consequences – since it largely failed to produce the desired results. Relatively few died and few (at least not enough to be a satisfactory result for the authorities) were injured. And many are now realising the terms of the game, refusing now (with doubts in their mind) to participate.
All right, I didn’t even mention CO2 again in the above paragraph (which was again kept together as a single thought bubble not directly related to this subject matter) but it was essential information to grasp before ever attempting to answer any question pertaining any goings on in todays world. Knowing and understanding what I said above, will form a background mindset for attempting to understand any such question.
The Air That I Breathe
So, finally, to CO2 – having once again beaten a rough track through the jungle of associated misinformation, which track I deem necessary to actually getting to where the treasure is hidden. You can now put away your hacking and slashing tools and make ready your digging and unpacking tools.
The argument is made, by ‘science’, that the atmosphere surrounding planet Earth and forming part of the protective barrier (missing from most other nearby planets) which permits the formation and endurance of living matter (you, me, and lots of other stuff), in relative (not absolute) safety from intrusion by what we term ‘extra-terrestrial’ forces – whether that be living, intelligent, or simply elemental (natural) sources – is changing. Its content increasing to include dangerous proportions of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) which, it is said, pose a threat to humanity and also to other life on the planet. That, allow me to announce, is another patent lie or, in fact, several lies rolled into one. Yes, the content of CO2 in the atmosphere is increasing. That is undeniable. But, that it is somehow dangerous to life, either directly or through consequent and detrimental changes to climate or the Earth’s biometric stability, is actually a crazy notion – as I hope to demonstrate here.
To get to the bottom of this irrational problem we must first examine the content of ‘air’, of which the entirety of Earth’s thin band of protective atmosphere consists and within which all life on Earth subsists. Albeit that atmosphere exists at finer and rarer compressions the further above the planet surface we rise until, at a height of around 8,000 metres above sea level, the density of air has become insufficient to sustain life. Now that is a real risk. No doubts about that. But since most of us, and our animal friends, live at or near surface levels (although there are a few mountains which reach into what is known as ‘the dead zone’) it is not a risk we currently face. Unless, of course, the content of ‘air’ were to significantly change for the worse – which I think is something the alarmists are trying to get us to believe is happening. Let me also announce, for the benefit of all, that while there are signs of change to our atmosphere beginning to emerge, it is change that is absolutely necessary for the benefit of all planetary life-forms. Such detrimental change as that being claimed today by both alarmists and official sources, is not occurring, although it has done that at times in the hoary old past – too long ago for us to need to worry about. Today, in a world that has largely settled down to reasonable geophysical equilibrium (when compared to even the recent past beyond just a few million years), we find ourselves hopefully at the bottom of a long trend (going back more than 60 million years) of falling average global temperatures and falling levels of atmospheric Carbon Dioxide. I will deal with the temperature issue later but with CO2 levels finally beginning to rise from the doldrums of recent decline, we can begin to breathe more easily. It remains the case where, as the still fabulous to memory, British band of the sixties and seventies ‘The Hollies’, sang, and with words which still inspire deep love and emotion in the hearts of those who hear or sing along with them, “Sometimes, All I Need Is The Air That I Breathe, just to love you”.
Today, the content of that air is…
I’m going to describe this as simply as I can, so there is no room for doubt or misunderstanding. Imagine, if you will, that gases could be measured in spoonsful and we had a jar which could hold exactly 100 spoonsful of air.
To fill the jar, we would first need to place a little over 78 spoonsful of Nitrogen gas into the jar.
Then we would add a little under 21 spoonsful of Oxygen gas.
The jar, you will note, is now 99% full. Not much room left for anything else – only 1%, 1 spoonful.
The third major component would be a little less than 1 spoonful of Argon gas.
The jar is now 99.96% full (that is a reasonably accurate figure using more detailed data than my ‘spoonsful’ values), just four hundredths of a percent or 0.04% of the jar left to fill.
And yet there are still a number of other noble gases to add. So, we prepare a mixture of gases, including Carbon Dioxide, Neon, Helium, Krypton, plus others too small to measure. It now becomes a little silly to continue to talk in terms of spoonsful, so we will drop that and use instead, percentages of the jar – with only 0.04% free space remaining. You begin, I hope , to see the picture.
When we add that small amount of remaining gases (which includes the whole, correct amount of CO2) the jar is now 100% full. If we shake the jar a bit, to mix the gases (use your imagination), we will have a jar full of air.
Armed with that information, what can you say about the relative importance of the CO2 as a component of air? It does not appear to be very significant, does it? Do you begin to wonder about why all the fuss is being made over the fact that CO2 has risen from only 0.03% (that’s only three in every one hundred molecules of air) in recent centuries (its lowest level at any time over the past 65 million years) to now be a huge 0.04% (just an extra one molecule out of one hundred molecules)?
Someone is making mountains out of molecules (sorry) molehills here …and it is not me!!
Every Breath You Take
Here are some interesting facts about CO2.
In ‘every breath you take’, which also just happens to be one of those songs which will never fade (by The Police), we breathe in a lung full of air. [At least we should train ourselves to do that as much as possible. Shallow breathing, where the lungs are only partially filled, is not good for long-term health] Preferably breathing through our nose. [That’s another good health tip]
From that breath of air we extract the oxygen content as the basis of life for our blood and brain functions. We extract the small amount of Carbon Dioxide as the building block of all life for our bodily functions. [This is not a scientific statement, just common sense, and I have no idea what we do with the other intake of gases, primarily Nitrogen] And, in the short space of time between breaths, we convert or somehow produce (How, is not important to this story) and then exhale with our out-breath, up to 40 times the volume of Carbon Dioxide that we breathed in. We also fart of course. That’s methane gas – as you can prove by holding a lit match or lighter to your arse as you express your intestinal gas products through it. And of course, since we ourselves can do no wrong, we can blamelessly blame the cattle we breed, to feed ourselves, for emitting excess greenhouse gases. Enough said on that.
We, as for all other major forms of life, animal, vegetable or mineral, on the planet, are a carbon-based life-form. (I think I am meant to say something else here, so I will leave this note in case I don’t get back to it. Sorry if this is what you are reading, but maybe try to work out some salient points on this for yourself.)
Now to the main point, for me, of this discussion. It is not a question of CO2 being currently at too high a level in our atmosphere but, to the contrary, it is actually, and devastatingly so, still at far too low a level. Historical science-based facts tell us that, in the past, the levels of atmospheric CO2 have been much higher than today. In fact as much as 500% higher than today’s value back around 65 million years ago (and even higher than that in earlier ages).
Scientists, of course, and therefore the media, do not talk in spoonsful or even parts per 100 of these things. They speak in terms of ppm or parts per million, which allows for more accurate measures of the minor air constituents. You can see that expressed in a diagram below. So, in terms of our experiment, our 0.04 spoonsful of CO2 per 100 spoonsful translates directly to 0.04 per cent. In terms of parts per million (ppm) that would be 400 ppm. You will often hear that number or slightly higher being used to refer to the CO2 content of the air. The true figure may grow a little higher as time passes. When I last checked it stood at 421 ppm but I chose to use the rounded figure in this discussion for simplicity. Even if it reached 500 ppm or 0.05%, which is on the cards if things continue as they are, that would also not be a significant amount of CO2 in our atmosphere.
Take A Deep Breath
My own preference for CO2 content in our atmosphere, to gain the best results for ourselves and our world – every part of it – would be something in the order of 800-1,000 ppm – which would be in fact just 0.8 to 1.0 percent of the air we breathe. Oh dear! Did some climate alarmist just collapse in a blue funk?
That, my preference, was the atmospheric CO2 level we understand prevailed between 20-40 million years ago when the Earth was at its greenest and most pleasant. It was a time when great movements of the continental land masses to their current positions were taking place – although the Americas had not yet joined together. It was also about midway in the continued slide of CO2 levels (they had been much higher further back in time) downward from the high of 2,000 ppm around 65 million years ago to the low of around 200 ppm between 1 million and 10,000 years ago. That period of almost a million years was a very significant time for both our planet and the rise of modern humanity. I will explain. [See note at bottom]
I would even suggest that the level of CO2 does not in any way effect the overall global temperature. We have never been shown proof that CO2 is actually a greenhouse gas. Presumably, being the ignoramuses we are thought to be, it is something we can just accept. Well, not this little black duck! I need answers, and reasons. There are, of course, no answers or reasons. It’s a lie, and it’s dethpicable! (for those who remember Daffy Duck)
If we look at any comparison chart for the history of both CO2 and global average temperatures (GMST), we will find no correspondence whatsoever between the various levels of the two factors. Unless… we restrict our view, as ‘the science’ pretty much exclusively does, to the most recent 150 years – the time of the Industrial Revolution, where both temperature and CO2 appear to be gradually and then more suddenly rising. Two things to say on that. First, most of the rapid rises are actually future projections. They haven’t happened yet. And who’s to say they ever will? Scientists? Pah!! Secondly, while CO2 rise is necessary (as I have explained) and in no way dangerous up to historically held levels, the same historic data which tells us that also tells us we have almost reached the peak of temperature rise for the current 120,000 year cycle and that we are about to enter another 100,000 years (or more) of gradually falling temperatures. Since the long-term trend for the planet continues to be an increasingly rapid fall in average surface temperatures and as the trend line for these falling temperatures are very close (just 2-3°C) above the very bottom of the envelope within which the planet has always operated (or for at least the past 500 million years has operated), it is entirely possible that we may reach icy temperatures never seen before by modern humans. That is what we or, more accurately, those who succeed us by many generations, should be at least a little worried about. But that, when it happens, if it happens, is not something we can lay blame to CO2 for bringing. Historically, both low and high levels of CO2 have been coexistent with both low and high global average temperature levels. There is no discernible correspondence between these two features of natural Earth life. Yes, at times they both rise and fall together. But at other times one rises while the other falls – and vice versa. You cannot build a solid case on the basis of temperatures are rising because CO2 is also rising. That is false logic, and it is incapable of proof.
Carbon Dioxide is our friend. And, just as much as Oxygen, it is essential to our continued life and wellbeing. They are both part, along with other elemental substances, of the cycles of nature which sustain us.
Note: I saw later that I failed to explain why the period between 1 million and 10,000 years ago is important to modern humans. I apologise for that and also for not fulfilling the place-holder note in an earlier section. I will remedy both those things in a separate piece since they both kind of relate to the final piece I am still working on (also promised earlier).
Not Something Else 