There is no climate change apocalypse coming this century... period.
Before humans began pumping CO2 into the air, we were close to having a serious shortage of CO2 that might have destroyed plant life on the planet and life in general.
In some respects, humans have saved the planet from a dearth of CO2. Science has shown that through processes of carbon sequestration (one creates of fossil fuel and the other is creates limestone) to much carbon was being pulled out of the atmosphere and then becoming sequestered into the ground where it could not be used by plants to produce fuel.
Then humans found a way to extract the carbon by burning it to produce energy (fossil fuels) or burning it to create cement (limestone). Restoring CO2 levels to the healthy levels prevalent today. Understand the CO2 levels today are the healthiest for the planet that they have been for thousands of years.
Don't believe me, research the level of CO2 that plants need for healthy growth and compare it to the records of CO2 levels over the last few thousand years.
Start by verifying these two statements...
"Plants may thrive at between 350 and 450 ppm but they can get by with a lot less. It won’t be until the CO2 levels drop to 150 ppm that they reach a point where they can’t survive. "
"The NOAA reports that the average amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere was 412.5 parts per million (ppm) in 2020,"
Plants do even better at twice the current CO2 levels. Greenhouse owners often pump in enough CO2 to be almost 4 times higher than the current atmospheric CO2. Humans do fine at those levels also especially given the more robust plant life. Regarding "warming", the rate of warming drops exponentially with the increase in CO2. I am not saying temperatures don't rise with more CO2, they just keep rising a exponentially slower rates. Meaning a four fold increase in CO2 would basically double the temperature rise we have already seen in thon the planet, not increase it fourfold. And frankly, an extra 2 degrees won't make the planet uninhabitable and arguably it will open vast areas for habitation and cultivation that have not been open due to cold weather.
Is there a point where CO2 can get too high. Of course, but at the current rate of CO2 being added to the atmosphere it is around 200-400 years out and we will never get there. Why because long before then, we won't be able to find the enough fossil fuels to maintain the current rate of adding sequestered carbon to the atmosphere.
Is there an upside to all this phony alarmism concerning climate change and the answer is yes. Amidst all the stupidity, there are some good technological innovations that will help humans tap into the virtually limitless supply of solar energy, geothermal energy, and nuclear energy and so we will have plenty of alternative energy sources once the supply of cheap fossil fuels run out.
"Modern climate science has benefited from exaggerating fears about carbon dioxide, and the doom CO2 is supposed to bring to Earth's environment. But Earth's life evolved in atmospheres many times higher in CO2 than at present -- leaving modern plants and ocean life relatively carbon-starved.
It is time for climate science to step away from contrived and exaggerated claims of doom, and to return to a genuine science of observation and falsifiability. Politics has played far too large a part in this destructive carbon hysteria, and must be tamed before we all fall victim to the political excesses of carbon alarmists and carbon opportunists."
