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Have you been told by the 😈🦖 Deniers that CO2 is plant food so MORE CO2 is 😒 "GOOD"? 🙄

Well, that is one of those 🐍 Orwellian tricks by the 🦖 Hydrocarbon 😈 Hellspawn that take advantage of the fact that most people do not have enough knowledge about HOW a plant leaf absorbs CO2 AND 💧 water VAPOR from the air to see through that 🐍 clever legerdemain.

Let me connect the 🌞 photosynthesis 'how it works' 🌱 DOTS for those here that didn't study Botany in college so you can call out the 🐍 liars for 🦖 hire claiming 🙃 burning hydrocarbon based fuels "😇 INCREASES the greening of our biosphere".

Plants absorb CO2 and H2O via pores calles STOMATA. Stomata are openings (i.e. epidermal pores) in the shaded part (i.e. bottom) of plant 🍃 leaves. Stomata are present in LARGE numbers in plant leaves. Stomata control the passage of gases into and out of a plant.

Please note that GASES are what is controlled. Liquids DO NOT get into a plant leaf via the stomata (Liquids get into plants almost exclusively via the roots).

To more fully understand why plants are 🚩 VERY NEGATIVELY affected by Catastrophic Climate Change, you need to fix in your mind that Stomatas are tiny.

Microscopic Photographic of Leaf Stomata:

A micrometer is  one millionth of a meter (or one thousandth of a millimeter, 0.001 mm, or about 0.00004 inch). A skin cell is about 30 micrometers (i.e. 30 millionths of a meter) across. Stomata are only about HALF across, at the longest part, as a human skin cell. The distribution of stomata on a leaf is, on the average, over 100 to the square millimeter. The mean size of the open pores is I7.7 X 6.7 millionths (i.e. micrometers) of a meter.

SOURCE: THE NUMBER AND SIZE OF THE STOMATA

Marked variations in number and size of stomata occur, not only in different varieties of the same species, but in the same varieties grown under different external conditions. So far as my observation goes, however, the variation is greater in number than in size. ... ...

 "... it is to be remembered, as BROWN and ESCOMB have shown,5 that in the passage of gases through stomata, it is the linear dimensions, and not the area, which is important."

AGelbert NOTE: So, you now know that 🍀🍃 plant leaves have, on the bottom side, about 100 tiny pores per square square millimeter, called Stomata, each which is smaller across than half the length of a skin cell, that take up gases to make the sugars that enable the plant to survive and thrive.

SO WHAT? 🤷‍♂️ Well, I'm glad you asked 😁. You see, Stomata are VERY sensitive to relative humidity. You all know what relative humidity is. During a 24 hour cycle, Stomata adjust their size to capture gases. "The pores of the stomata were found as a rule to be widest open at about 10 A. M. ..."

However, the plant Stomata size WILL NOT reach its optimum size (i.e. 10 A.M.) IF the relative humidity is too low (i.e. DRY AIR).

WHY is that BAD for plants?

1. Low relative humidity tends to suck moisture OUT of the plant through the Stomata. The plant Stomata reduce the opening size to preserve the plant's moisture content to keep it from dying from dehydration.

2. THUS, the plant CANNOT get enough H2O (AND CO2, even though the there is 🦖 MORE CO2 in the atmosphere!) through the Stomata to efficiently photosynthesize CO2 and H2O into sugars.

3. Consequently, the plant growth is arrested and withering will follow if dry conditions remain or increase.

And Lo and Behold, you will never guess what BURNING HYDROCARBONS does to the atmosphere. Well, most here will. There are a lot of smart cookies here. Yep, you've got it; THE EARTH IS BROWNING! 😵😱🥵

Here is the IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE, along with a peer reviewed scientific paper. Please watch the video and pass both it and these graphics to anyone who is brainwashed into thinking that the hydrocarbon fuels based economy isn't DEGRADING PLANT LIFE!

Browning Earth from Catastrophic Climate Change:

Atmospheric Drying Reducing Terrestrial Vegetation Growth Since 1998: Part 2 of 2

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March 7, 2023 By Andy Rowell

COP28 🦖 President pushes false fossil fuel solutions, such as CCS, at 🦖💰🦀🐘🦕🐍🦍🐉  CERAWeek


For anyone in the oil and gas industry, there is only one place to be this week. The great and good of the industry has converged on 🦖 Houston for CERAWeek, which bills itself as the world’s premier  🦕🦖😈 energy event.

Delegates will listen to  big oil bosses from BP, Shell, Exxon, and as well as political dignitaries such as John Kelly, the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, and Jennifer Granholm, the U.S. Energy Secretary.

Also addressing the conference this morning was 🦖😈 Dr. Sultan Al-Jaber, who currently fulfills two completely contradictory roles. He is the Group CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), as well as President for the upcoming COP28 climate talks in Dubai later this year.

Many scientific, political, civil society commentators, including colleagues at Oil Change International, have already pointed out how utterly incompatible it is to be the boss of and oil company and a host of a climate conference at the same time. It is akin to a tobacco baron organizing a conference on smoking and health. The conflict of interest is palpable.

Speaking after his appointment, Tasneem Essop, executive director of Climate Action Network International, told the Financial Times that Al-Jaber’s presidency of COP28 was “tantamount to a full-scale capture of the UN climate talks by a petrostate national oil company and its associated fossil fuel lobbyists.”

Even the UN is worried about the appointment. In January, Politico reported that the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) had sent “a series of questions to the presidency of the climate talks enquiring about whether the presidency will be independent of the oil company.”

You can see why the UN and others are worried. ADNOC, one of the world’s largest oil and gas producers, currently plans to increase fossil fuel production. A report by OCI published last year, titled, Investing in Disaster, revealed that ADNOC is on track to be one of the biggest expanders in terms of new Final Investment Decisions (FIDs) in new large scale oil and gas projects.

And although ADNOC has set net zero targets for Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions, it admits in its 2021 Sustainability report that ADNOC “does not currently monitor its Scope 3 emissions due to its current operational business model.”

So roughly eighty-five percent of the company’s emissions – from consumers burning their products – are not measured. 🤦‍♂️

Despite this, Dr. Al-Jaber was keen this morning to bolster his climate credentials by urging the oil industry to “up its game, do more, and do it faster."  The COP28 Presidency was also eager to tweet Dr. Al-Jaber’s comments.

"The oil & gas sector needs to up its game, do more and do it faster." #DrSultanAlJaber lays out the next steps for action:
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-Triple renewable capacity

-Double hydrogen production

-Build out the hydrogen value chain

-Take carbon capture technologies to scale#CERAWeek #COP28UAE
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— COP28 UAE (@COP28_UAE) March 7, 2023

It is not difficult to rip up Al-Jaber’s green facade. While any comments encouraging the oil industry to increase action on climate change are welcomed, as long as the industry carries on drilling, such rhetoric is flawed.

And what type of stepping up is Al-Jaber proposing? It is a false dawn of flawed solutions to the climate crisis, such as hydrogen and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). These will only prolong our use of fossil fuels, not diminish them.

Responding to Al-Jaber's speech, Romain Ioualalen, OCI Global Policy Campaign Manager, said the COP28 President: “trotted out the tired old playbook of delaying action and relying on speculative technologies to ensure fossil fuel CEOs continue to get rich, at the expense of all of us. The science is clear: the only way to limit warming to 1.5°C is to halt all new fossil fuel projects and shift investments to renewables.”

The only way we have any hope of solving climate change is to massively increase renewable energy, a solution that has been obvious for decades. But one, if you remain an oilman to your core, you cannot countenance, you cannot see.

The theme of this week’s CERA Week is “Navigating a Turbulent World: Energy, Climate and Security." Investing in more fossil fuels and false solutions will only make our world more turbulent and more disruptive. Any climate scientist will tell you that. And maybe a climate scientist, not an oilman, should have been the President of the next COP too.

https://priceofoil.org/2023/03/07/cop28-president-pushes-false-fossil-fuel-solutions-such-as-ccs-at-ceraweek/
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« Reply #17 on: March 17, 2023, 12:53:32 pm »
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Four reasons why warmer oceans are not a good thing.

1) Warmer waters hold less oxygen. Fish require oxygen to produce energy. So all the higher fin fish, the ones we like to eat, have less ocean to live in. Ergo, fewer fish.

2) Warmer water changes pH, so shellfish like clams and corals find it more difficult to make shells. Without shells they die.

3) Warmer waters absorb less CO2. So at some point the oceans become saturated. They stop absorbing the extra CO2 we produce and start outgassing it back into the atmosphere. This hasn't happened yet but will become a very big deal when it does start.

4) Warmer waters are more energetic. So besides intensifying El Ninos they also create more violent hurricanes and extreme rain events.

AGelbert > milo
You are right.

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Charts like that enrage the anti-AGW crowd, who I think of as the Flat Earth crowd, who refuse to admit such things have been happening. Their belief systems are as brittle and well-defended as those of the anti-vax crowd. I put a lot of effort into refuting their claims... but I know it's an exercise in futility. I'm up against rigid articles of belief.

AGelbert > milo
Agreed. I've often pondered about how the intractable mindset you accurately described comes about. I have never come to a firm conclusion as to the chain of causation that reduces an otherwise reasonable individual into a 🙊🙉🙈 propagandized weapon against common sense thinking and action. 🤦‍♂️

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"By the skillfull and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see heaven as hell, or an extremely wretched life as paradise." -- Adolf Hitler

The best I have been able to reason out is that, somewhere along the line, a 😒 person decides that truth is "relative" 🙃. As soon as that unreality based assumption becomes firmly ensconced, said individual is easily convinced of irrational baloney by the morally bankrupt 🦖 legerdemian pushing 😈 greedballs who wish to add more suckers to their crowd of victims.

A lot of people out there claim that people don't actually believe all the baloney they peddle and that they are just doing it for the money. I disagree. If it was just the money, the suckers would figure out pretty quick who is getting the lion's share of that profit over planet at the expense of the biosphere we all depend on and would QUIT. But, the crowd of willfully stupid seems immune to that in-their-faces logic.

Critical Thinking Skills are in short supply in this "Brave New World".







milo > AGelbert
The thought that there are millions of people out there, all agreeing to lie to us because they're getting paid to do so by shadowy forces, and that for many decades now no one has broken the silence surrounding the Vast Plot, is the sure sign of a shallow, poorly thought out mind.

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It's pretty simple, really. The deniers come from authoritarian households, where their parents assured them they knew beyond any doubt what life was like. Usually because the Bible told them. So in later life their worldview becomes rigid, and they come to believe in their convictions far more than they believe the evidence they see in the world around them. "No! It's not getting warmer! Why just last winter we had over an inch of snow. "

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"The deniers come from authoritarian households, where their parents assured them they knew beyond any doubt what life was like. Usually because the Bible told them. So in later life their worldview becomes rigid, and they come to believe in their convictions far more than they believe the evidence they see in the world around them."

I actually was an atheist from the age of 18 to around 28.

By force of reason I slowy became a Deist.

A decade or so later I became a nominal Christian.

Decades later, I now believe the Bible is the Word of God. I come from an authoritarian household. My dad was an inflexible US Army Major that admired Mussolini! My mom was a devout Roman Catholic. I have always been able to reason out right from wrong. I firmly  believe that I owe that skill to the fact that Truth was never taught to me as a "relative" concept. Having Faith in a Creator God never inhibited my critical thinking skills, though I believe I did reason well during my youth as an atheist (that is why, as long as they are advocates of egalitarianism and common sense, I can see atheist Socialists as people of good will. 🌞).

Thus, while I recognize that my Faith cannot prove the existence of God or our obligation to worship Him, when pondering causes and consequences of irrational socially destructive behavior among humans, I concentrate on root causes. As you surmise, belief systems certainly can get people to go full Red Queen in Through the Looking Glass, but misguided Christians do not have a patent on willful denial of viable biosphere math. Making them the whipping boy is choosing an easy target. I'm sure the 🦖 Hydrocarbon Hellspawn smile broadly 😈 when they see Socialists placing the lion's share of the blame for our polluted biosphere on 🦖 Fossil Fuel Industry propagandized 🙊🙉🙈 Christians.

Though I am NOT absolving the propagandized Christians from their folly, I suggest you look at the top 100 💰🦀 🐘🦕🦖🐍 🦍🐉 🎩👿  corporations on the planet. THEY are responsible for far more than half of the degradation of the biosphere now dooming so many mammalian vertebrate species to ☠️ extinction. If you think there are ANY ☝🏻 Bible believing Christians in decision making positions on those 😈🦍 Social Darwinist run corporations, I've got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.   

Mock Christians and brand the Bible as "dangerously irrational mindfork" all you wish, that's the expected reaction of non-Christians to Christianity (But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; 1Corinthians 1:23), but recognize that the 🦍 Darwinian ideology widely accepted as "Evolutionary science based" is ALSO a BELIEF system (i.e. Atheism) based speculation, not "science".

Though you will certainly disagree (with vigor 😁), think it is irrational for any person with critical thinking skills to believe that all the complexity of living organisms in our biosphere "just happened" by random undirected processes. Modern Scientific Inquiry and the Scientific Method were both championed by God fearing, Bible believing  scientists, not atheists. If you were taught, or assume otherwise, you are the victim of Darwinian atheist mendacious propaganda.


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