“More Carbon Dioxide Will Create More Food.Driving Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Net Zero and eliminating Fossil Fuels Will Be Disastrous for People Worldwide.”
Human cognition starts to dip at 600 ppm, which frequently happens indoors. CO2 also forms a gradient at night, so sleeping on the floor is unwise. That’s 2 million years of recent human evolutionary history; dinosaurs were fine, sure, but they didn’t have much in the way of brains. But seriously, at night the CO2 levels at ground level are 700-1500 ppm in an outdoor forest setting, that’s probably a bit off, but still. Parts of this have to do with gradients of gasses, CH4 is high in the atmosphere due to density, I would have liked to see a discussion on the layering. I think people have drastically overlooked how land albedo has changed due to groundwater pumping and deforestation, and how that impacts temperature measurements over the last 100 years. But also fossil fuels subsidize plastic, and most humans now have a credit card’s worth of microplastics in our brains. We should switch to thorium molten salt reactors, they’re inherently safer than old reactors or fusion from a non-proliferation standpoint. Internal combustion engines produce smog that is bad for brain function, too bad we’ve yet to make batteries with sufficient energy density to make electric cars truly feasible.
Also food may double, but that’s misleading, as it will consequently be far less nutrient dense due to faster plant growth. That’s at least worth of which making some note.
I feel like the 600 my chart of CO2 on page 13 should include a discussion on O2’s impact, as oxygen went from 5% to 30% to 20% over the last 850 my. I know it’s diatomic, and has less infrared impact, but I wonder how that affected the rest of the constituent atmosphere.
For the record, I hate hot weather, and sure the Pax Romana or the Minoans created during warm periods, but we also came into agriculture and civilization after some ice ages. I didn’t read the entire report, I will try to later.
Net zero is like a safe effective vaxxine, it’s all word games. That are lethal.
Human cognition starts to dip at 600 ppm, which frequently happens indoors. CO2 also forms a gradient at night, so sleeping on the floor is unwise. That’s 2 million years of recent human evolutionary history; dinosaurs were fine, sure, but they didn’t have much in the way of brains. But seriously, at night the CO2 levels at ground level are 700-1500 ppm in an outdoor forest setting, that’s probably a bit off, but still. Parts of this have to do with gradients of gasses, CH4 is high in the atmosphere due to density, I would have liked to see a discussion on the layering. I think people have drastically overlooked how land albedo has changed due to groundwater pumping and deforestation, and how that impacts temperature measurements over the last 100 years. But also fossil fuels subsidize plastic, and most humans now have a credit card’s worth of microplastics in our brains. We should switch to thorium molten salt reactors, they’re inherently safer than old reactors or fusion from a non-proliferation standpoint. Internal combustion engines produce smog that is bad for brain function, too bad we’ve yet to make batteries with sufficient energy density to make electric cars truly feasible.
Also food may double, but that’s misleading, as it will consequently be far less nutrient dense due to faster plant growth. That’s at least worth of which making some note.
I feel like the 600 my chart of CO2 on page 13 should include a discussion on O2’s impact, as oxygen went from 5% to 30% to 20% over the last 850 my. I know it’s diatomic, and has less infrared impact, but I wonder how that affected the rest of the constituent atmosphere.
For the record, I hate hot weather, and sure the Pax Romana or the Minoans created during warm periods, but we also came into agriculture and civilization after some ice ages. I didn’t read the entire report, I will try to later.