Scientific report pours cold water on the main position of climate activists – Are you interested in it?

From DAILY CALLER

Gregory Wrightstone
Author of Inconvenient Truths: The Science Al Gore Doesn’t Want You to Know

Climate cataclysms will not accept the good news that our planet is thriving because of modest warming and increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. However, one Recent scientific articles concludes that an optimistic vision of Earth and its inhabitants is nonetheless reasonable.

Widely accepted data show that the greening of the entire Earth is the result of a natural warming cycle that began more than 300 years ago and from the addition of CO during industrialization.₂ That started in ’19^th century and accelerated with strong economic activity after World War II.

Also due to these and other factors are record crop yields, which now feed 8 billion people – 10 times the population before the Industrial Revolution. An increase in CO in the atmosphere₂ Since 1940 alone, corn, soybean, and wheat yields have increased by 10%, 30%, and 40%, respectively.

The positive contribution of carbon dioxide to the human condition should be a cause for celebration, but this is more than these gas perverts can bear. Just then, storytellers of a planet supposedly overheated by carbon dioxide began sensationalizing research findings that increased plant mass leads to lower concentrations of nutrients in food.

“The potential health consequences are enormous,” the organization concluded, “as there are already billions of people around the world who do not get enough protein, vitamins or other nutrients in their daily diets.” ”. New York Times, a reliable promoter of the end of the world forever. Among the others involved were Finger tip, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and National Institutes of Health.

Of course, such yellow journalism lacks context and countervailing facts – elements provided in “Nutritional Value of Plants Grown in Enhanced CO2 Environments”.₂ Concentration,” published by CO₂ Union, Arlington, Virginia.

Any nutrient shortfalls from accelerated plant growth due to elevated carbon dioxide levels “are small compared to the nutrient shortfalls that agriculture and livestock regularly face due to natural phenomena.” However, such as severe differences in soil fertility, dilution of plant nutrients due to rainfall or irrigation. and even plant aging,” the article said.

And while there was evidence of a slight decrease in some nutrients, the data also showed higher CO2 levels₂ The paper, which lists seven authors and more than 100 references, says it “may be possible to enhance certain groups of health-promoting phytochemicals in food crops,” which act as antioxidants and anti-inflammatory compounds. . The lead author is Albrecht Glatzle, member of the Paraguayan Rural Association and former international researcher in plant and animal nutrition.

Among other points made by the article are: For most of geologic history, CO was in the atmosphere₂ concentrations were many times higher than today, below the optimal level for most crops; atmospheric warming from even a quadrupling of CO2 levels₂ concentrations would be small compared to natural temperature fluctuations since the last glaciation more than 10,000 years ago.

With virtually no scientific basis, the “green” movement’s opposition to carbon dioxide seems to ignore the gas’s important role as a plant food. As the article noted, “CO₂ is the sole source of chemical element carbon for all life on Earth, be it plants, animals or fungi and bacteria – through photosynthesis and the food chain.”

The so-called greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide— falsely exaggerated to support climate fears— is a life-saving temperature regulator that keeps the Earth from freezing.

Clear benefits of CO₂ “is an embarrassment to the massive and profitable movement to ‘save the planet’ from ‘carbon pollution.’” “If CO₂ brings huge benefits to agriculture and forestry and has a small, benign effect on the climate, it is not a pollutant at all.

Add CO2₂ is good news. It’s not very complicated.

Gregory Wrightstone is a geologist; CEO of CO₂ League, Arlington, Va.; The author of “Inconvenient truths: The science Al Gore doesn’t want you to know” And “Warming is convenient: How modest warming and more CO2 are benefiting humanity” and co-author of the book “Nutritional value of plants in enhanced CO environment₂ Concentration.”

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