The average person may not have heard of Paul Driessen. He is currently a senior policy advisor with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, nonprofit public policy institutes that focus on energy, the environment, economic development and international affairs. He is also an accomplished author and also held positions within the US Department of Interior and US Senate. Hello again, it’s Rocketman, Ken Baxter here. I’m writing this story from sunny, Las Vegas, Nevada and thanks for stopping by.
If you know me, you are aware of how I feel about the efforts of climate fanatics pushing the need for humans worldwide to immediately reduce their dreaded CO2 footprint. When I came across this article, written by Driessen that strips away the scientific jargon and explains it in everyday language that even a child can understand, I had to share it.
As young children, we all learned in school about carbon dioxide and photosynthesis; how plants take in CO2 and turn it into oxygen. The need for CO2 in our atmosphere is critical to all life on this planet. Surprisingly, there may not be enough.
In fact, put another way, “Carbon dioxide now makes up just 400 molecules out of every million molecules of gases in Earth’s atmosphere. “
Amazingly, Driessen continues, “In more everyday language, the 400 ppm of carbon dioxide now in our Earth’s atmosphere is 0.04 percent – the equivalent of 40 cents out of one thousand dollars, or 1.4 inches on a football field. That’s an incredibly small amount. (The atmosphere’s oxygen concentration is equivalent to 21 yards of a football field.) And the 120 ppm increase between 1800 and 2013 is equivalent to 12 cents out of $1,000, or a half-inch on a football field”
This fact was also not lost on other great thinkers such as Jordan Peterson, who also agrees that the quest to lower CO2 levels in the earth’s atmosphere is a huge scam. In Peterson’s opinion we are closer to levels that would cause plant life to begin to die, or “CO2 drought” than we are to levels that would harm the planet’s environment. If you have a few minutes, you will be impressed by him. During a recent interview, Peterson presented a very convincing argument of why we may need more CO2!
The truth is, with higher CO2 levels, plant life absorbs it and grows larger, stronger with better harvests. It also helps reduce the effects of other pollutants in our atmosphere such as ozone and others and also stabilizes nitrogen levels in our soil.
Makes you wonder, doesn’t it? All the money being funneled into reducing CO2 levels that are much lower now than they have been historically.
Why do they need all this money to mitigate something that actually betters our way of life. Money would certainly be better spent to protect our precious oceans and rainforests. The full article by Paul Driessen is available above in it’s entirety, it’s a real eye opener.
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