I have been saying this for around 18 months now. It is a complete tragedy. A crime of massive proportions even. A crime of greater proportions even than the equally tragic COVID farce. Somebody must pay. Perhaps a lot of somebodies – for telling lies. Lies that have almost turned our world into a dead planet due to a lack of Carbon Dioxide. Actually no, scrub that thought. The lies were not the cause of our world almost becoming a dead planet due to a lack of Carbon Dioxide. That process began a long, long time ago. Many millions of years. So, it certainly has nothing to do with us – humanity. Neither has the slowly rising Carbon load anything to do with us – other than quite marginally. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Let’s try to understand what this new report is saying. After all, who knows, it may provide an answer that will allow us to relax a bit, and start to enjoy our motoring and travel once again, without guilt or redress.
But first, just a couple more thoughts. If this is true, and I know it is, because it is in line with all the actual science and is what actual scientists, real scientists, have been saying all along, then it is going to require a huge amount of resetting of human consciousness. A change that encompasses a 180 degree turn from the kind of thinking human minds have been contaminated with for at least half a century now. Thought patterns which are now deeply embedded into the human psyche. Can that even be done, successfully? Massive trauma lies ahead for those committed to the climate alarmism ethos. There will be many casualties emerging from that process. Although, come to think of it, I managed to do it, personally, 18 months ago, by myself, and simply by reading the available historic records rather than the garbage climate models so central to the current climate myth, so dearly held and carefully polished to a glowing sheen by its proponents.
‘Study Debunks Climate Doomsday Predictions on Crop Yields, Mass Starvation’ – Vijay Jayaraj – The Daily Signal – March 16, 2025
Since it is not easy to find referenced in that essay, the actual study to which it refers is…
‘Extended crop yield meta-analysis data do not support upward SCC revision’ – Ross McKitrick – Scientific Reports -Nature – Feb 15, 2025
This is just another boring scientific study, the only value of which is that it reaches the correct conclusions. Which are, understandably, the ones which agree with my own. Not that that should be any basis for recommendation but, it’s fine with me.
I must state one of the things which particularly delighted me in the Jayaraj essay. It is this paragraph…
The McKitrick study is consistent with an extensive historical record that documents human flourishing during earlier eras warmer than today. The Minoan Warm Period 3,000 years ago and the Roman Warm Period and Medieval Warm Periods that followed are examples.
This reference to the historical record is very important. Far more important than fiddling with modern statistics. We have had our 5 degrees of warming. It began 17,000 years ago and has reached its peak. Typical of having reached such peak events of the past, are the three warming periods mentioned in the above quote. History tells us there will be no further 5 degrees upward movement, nor ever was in similar cycles of the past. It is over. It is done. The forward direction of temperature movements (which are the basis of all this study) is downward toward colder average temperatures than you and I have ever experienced. That is for the concern of future generations. But there will always be habitable regions of the planet, with adequate temperatures for the production of all types of food plants. Just not everywhere they can be grown right now. In other words, mostly in the tropics, which is where human communities will need to move in order to survive anyway. There is, and always will be, room for all.
As for the present, we need to be grateful for increasing levels of CO2 – as per these quotes…
Most crops fall into two categories: C3 and C4 plants, so named to reflect their different photosynthetic processes. C3 crops, such as wheat, rice, and soybeans, flourish in elevated CO2 conditions characteristic of the 21st century.
Carbon dioxide is food to plants, necessary for the process of photosynthesis—a process where oxygen is a byproduct.
Higher levels of CO2 act like a supercharger, boosting photosynthesis and water-use efficiency. Studies have long shown that CO2 enrichment in greenhouses can increase C3 yields by 20% to 40%. C4 crops—like corn and sorghum—are less responsive to CO2 but do well in hotter, drier conditions.
The conclusions drawn in the McKitrick paper are based on debunking something which appears to have been defined some time within the Biden administration, when an existing metric was found to be in need of refinement in order to better quantify – for some vague purpose – the Social Cost of Carbon, or SCC. This is the first time I have personally heard of this dubious measure, or its recent refinement, since I do not generally dabble in the dark arts of scientific mumbo-jumbo. Which is basically what it is. If I had been aware of this activity I would have said the study should have been better directed to ascertain the Social Benefit of Carbon – which is actually the basis of all life on Earth. But, who would have listened? It amazes me how science, governments, and other supposedly intelligent people can get the direction of their thinking so wrong on so many issues. But, there it is. Here is a definition of SCC…
Definition: The Social Cost of Carbon (SCC). It’s a metric that estimates the economic damages caused by each ton of carbon dioxide (CO₂) released into the atmosphere.
Total Poppycock, of course. I am not sure now, exactly why I began writing this. I think it was some sort of elation that someone who sounded kind of ‘sciency’ actually got something right for once. By whatever ‘magicky’ method they used.
Well, enough said about that. I have reread the Jayaraj essay and I still delight in its findings. So I will let this pass, and end it here. I hope you too can get something from it.
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