James DeMeo's OBRL-News Blog

As someone who used to teach environmental science, earth-science and climatology in the universities, I'm always stunned at the wild misrepresentations and alarmism about the natural gas CO2, which we exhale and plants use for growth, as if it was cyanide.  Or the declarations about its supposed immense power to affect global temperature, when the other natural gasseous form of H2O has about a thousand times the "greenhouse" effect of CO2.  And also stunned that so many otherwise rational-thinking people seem to adore the very same alarmist politician (the one who got the Nobel Prize) who did absolutely nothing towards alternative fuels or environmentalism when he held the keys to power, but today quite nastily accuses his critics of being "flat-earthers", and develops a large following by speaking to people as if they were children.  It seems always so, the guy who says it plain and simple, or who might stutter out an unwelcomed truth, is never so warmly greeted as the smooth-talkers who validate everyone's favorite prejudice.   We should take more time to hear out the people who stammer and wear rumpled suits, and be more suspicious of the handsome favorites, who vie for absolute power, seek the keys to our national treasury, and declare openly how they will erase our hard-won freedoms -- all on empty platforms or "trust me" declarations we would never accept from a used-car salesman or a baby-sitter.

Here's another clear-minded essay on the CO2 subject, from an old climatologist in a rumpled suit.    J.D.

(Tip 'O The Hat to Don Bill of Virginia for alerting us to this article)