BREATHING THE AIR INSIDE A MICROWAVE OVEN ISN'T GOING TO KILL YOU... BECAUSE YOU CANNOT CLOSE THE DOOR... SHOULD YOU BE ABLE TO CLOSE THE DOOR AND TURN THE MACHINE ON, YOU WILL BOIL TO DEATH... THIS IS WHAT MANY PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND. DENIALISTS OF GLOBAL WARMING ARE THUS DANGEROUS...

THE "TINY" QUANTITY OF CO2 AFFECTED BY SPECIFIC SOLAR WAVELENGTH EMISSIONS — LIKE WATER IS IN A MICROWAVE OVEN [SAY PLACE A METAL SPOON INSIDE THE BLITHER AND IT COULD "EXPLODE"] — IS THE MAIN DRIVER OF CLIMATIC CONDITIONS IN THE EVOLVING DYNAMICS OF THE PLANET THAT INCLUDE THE VARIATIONS OF THE MILANKOVICH CYCLES.

HERE FOLLOWS A TON OF FAULTY ARGUMENTS IN A DENIALIST ARTICLE BY SOMEONE WHO HAS NOT UNDERSTOOD ANYTHING ABOUT THE SCIENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING...

WE CAN SAY WITH 99.9 PER CENT CONFIDENCE THAT GLOBAL WARMING IS REAL AND HUMAN ACTIVITIES INDUCED [BURNING FOSSIL FUELS], LIKE SAY BEFORE OIL, GAS AND COAL GOT SEQUESTERED BY GEOPALEO EVENTS AS TOO MUCH SURFACE (MOSTLY ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC) CARBON LED TO RISING TEMPERATURES, RISING SEA LEVELS — FOLLOWED BY A SOMEWHAT "CATASTROPHIC" "CORRECTION"...

TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING PLEASE SEE: https://yourdemocracy.net/drupal/node/33287

MEANWHILE, IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW THE LUDICROUS ARGUMENTS THEY USE TO LURE PEOPLE — AS A BASIS FOR THEIR STUPIDITY...

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by Serge Van Cutsem

The climate debate has become omnipresent, urgent, moral… but strangely, rarely quantified. CO₂ is invoked without ever mentioning its actual concentration in the air, science is discussed without orders of magnitude, and consensus is invoked to close every question. This text proposes a different approach: to breathe, to count, and to look at the figures before subscribing to the narratives. Not to deny, but to understand. Galileo, Wegener, plate tectonics, the theory of continental drift… all were in the minority in the face of a massive consensus.

Breathing is a simple act, butthinkThe air we breathe is clearly much less so. Yet, every day, we talk with gravity, urgency, and sometimes hysteria about a subject intimately linked to air: climate, CO₂, the atmosphere, the planet, and even the end of the world, now regularly announced. So let's take a step back, take a deep breath… and count seriously. Rest assured, there's nothing conspiratorial here, just the facts.

I start with a little surprise quiz that I've already enjoyed giving to several people, including family members. It's both amusing and, above all, very revealing. To the question, "What is the main gas in the Earth's atmosphere?", the most frequent answers are: oxygen (makes sense, we die without it), CO₂ (makes sense, we talk about it all the time), or sometimes "something toxic" (makes sense, given the general mood). The correct answer, however, is nitrogen, about 78%. Silence in the room. Nitrogen? This discreet gas, odorless, colorless, without slogans, without activism, and without subsidies. In short, the one that interests no one precisely because it tells us nothing.

Yes, but what about oxygen? Ah, oxygen… the hero, the lifeblood, the one we breathe, the one we learn about in school, the one we associate with life, lungs, sports, and health. So much so that in movies and TV shows, not a single diver appears without a tank—or a cylinder—of oxygen strapped to their back. No, it's just air, because if they descended below the surface with pure oxygen, they would end up in convulsions or a coma long before they'd even seen a single fish. Oxygen makes up about 21% of the air. It's not the main gas in the atmosphere, far from it, but it's obviously the one without which we wouldn't be here to discuss it. Nature loves these kinds of cruel jokes: the most vital isn't the majority, the most abundant is perfectly invisible to our awareness.

And what about the infamous CO₂? Dramatic entrance, somber music, anxiety-inducing voiceover. And yet, CO₂ represents approximately 0,04% of the atmosphere. On a pie chart, it would barely be a line. Yes, 0.04. At this point, some readers have already tuned out or are desperately clinging to the narrative: "The percentage doesn't matter, it's the effect that counts." Honest translation: I prefer the narrative to the actual order of magnitude.

This is a true, and slightly chilling, anecdote, as it's based on personal experience: it's not uncommon to hear that CO₂ makes up 10% of the air, that it's almost as abundant as oxygen, or that it's as high as 20%. At 20% CO₂, rest assured: there's no need for an ecological transition, no need for debates or international summits. We would all have been dead for a long time, and the problem would have resolved itself, in a definitive silence and with perfect carbon neutrality.

So, what's going on in people's minds? Nothing extraordinary. Just perfectly human cognitive biases. The brain works like this: what's vital must be the majority, what's hammered home must be enormous, and what's frightening must be massive in quantity. But oxygen is vital but a minority, CO₂ is omnipresent in discourse but infinitesimal in the air, and nitrogen is dominant but boring, because it doesn't bother anyone. The result: physical and scientific reality loses to the emotional narrative, not to mention the infamous "consensus," that magic word that cuts short any attempt at debate.

Throughout all of this, the media's role is subtle, but remarkably effective. They never say that CO₂ makes up 20% of the atmosphere. No, they do much better. They talk about "massive emissions," the "dominant gas of global warming," an "absolute emergency," and a "tipping point." But they never mention the proportions. This is what you might call disinformation by quantitative omission: they don't lie, they simply avoid counting.

One last reminder, which can sometimes be unsettling. Before the industrial era, CO₂ made up about 0,028% of the atmosphere. Today, it's around 0,042%. The absolute increase is therefore 0,014 percentage points. The air has thus gone from being 99,972% CO₂-free to 99,958% CO₂-free. It's neither nothing nor everything, but certainly not a monster dominating the atmosphere.

Let us add this further: if a CO₂ concentration of around 0,04% were, on its own, the primary driver of Earth's climate, then the geological periods during which this gas reached levels several times higher than today's should have led to temperatures radically incompatible with the stability of the oceans and the biosphere. Yet the geological record shows, on the contrary, warm but stable climates, abundant life, and the absence of any global thermal runaway. This indicates that CO₂ acts as one parameter among others in a complex climate system, and not as a single control knob.

And let's finally talk about responsibility. Even accepting the prevailing hypothesis that CO₂ is the primary driver of climate change, Europe accounts for less than 8% of global emissions, and France about 1%. In other words, we live in a region of the world that is imposing burdensome, costly, and irreversible policies on itself to correct a tiny fraction of a fraction of a global phenomenon. This warrants, at the very least, a debate based on figures.

The problem isn't talking about climate change and denying everything on principle; the problem is talking about it systematically without any sense of scale or figures. Without figures, science becomes mere storytelling, debate becomes moralistic, and politics becomes dogmatic. When we can no longer count, we believe, and believing is very useful: for instilling fear, guilt, imposing our will, and simplifying a complex world. But belief has never replaced physics and science.

Okay, one last breath before you go. The air you breathe is about 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 0,04% CO₂. If this simple fact bothers you, it's not a problem with the composition of the atmosphere, it's a problem with your perception of reality. So breathe deeply… but above all, learn to count.

https://en.reseauinternational.net/lair-que-vous-respirez-ou-comment-debattre-passionnement-dun-sujet-que-personne-ne-mesure/

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SURE, LEARN TO COUNT:

A FEW MILLIGRAM OF POISON CAN KILL YOU....

A FEW MILLIGRAMM OF ASPIRIN WILL REDUCE YOUR HEADACHE....

0.05 PER CENT OF ALCOHO; IS THE LIMIT FOR YOU TO DRIVE LEGALLY.... 

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