CO2 Will Kill The Planet
OPS-35 Merriam-Webster Definition: Gaia – “the hypothesis that the living and nonliving components of earth function as a single system in such a way that the living component regulates and maintains conditions (such as the temperature of the ocean or composition of the atmosphere) so as to be suitable for life”
Put simply, all life on this planet would have ceased to exist within 2 – 5 million years (a blink of the eye on geological time scales) if human CO2 emissions had not increased atmospheric CO2 levels. That is the very definition of Gaia. Long term natural processes (carbon sequestration by sedimentary deposition (carbonate and hydrocarbon laden clastic rocks)) continually reduce the atmospheric CO2 levels. Each new deep ice age has a slightly lower level than the last (182.2 ppm, near starvation levels). At 150 ppm, plants die and life on the planet ceases to exist. Sadly, we have only increased the planet’s life expectancy to 13 – 30 million years (based on the current 415 ppm level).
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Life on this planet is completely dependent on CO2 and we should be looking for ways to add more CO2 to the atmosphere (provided that real pollutants are not part of that process). More CO2 leads to more plant growth, higher crop yields with higher drought resistance. There is the obvious reason that greenhouse operators increase their greenhouse CO2 levels to the 1200 ppm range.
And before the Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) alarmist crowd loses their mind, I am still waiting for an empirical CO2/Temperature data set that shows CO2 driving the planet on any statistically significant historical time scale. That nonexistent dataset is required to categorize the CAGW theory/hypothesis/narrative as scientific rather than simple religious belief.
The CAGW alarmist focus on a minor player in the Climate Change Story (CO2) is as unscientific as you can get. And ignoring the most important player (the sun) is going to be a very expensive and dangerous mistake. We are just entering a Grand Solar Minimum (GSM) that will last for a few decades. GSMs have never been kind to the human population and this one will be no different. The earth has been significantly warmer and had higher CO2 levels than now for most of its existence. Throughout all those periods of higher temperature and CO2, life flourished. Backup data and discussion is available at my website climatechangeandmusic.com, and it shows the many solar influences (and minimal CO2 influence) on climate.
