With the arrival of Hurricane Harvey as a category 4 storm on the Texas Gulf Coast in late August of 2017 the 4324 day absence of a major hurricane hitting the US is over. There are those who will immediately claim this storm was produced by our emissions of CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels. The alarmists will conveniently forget that the CO2 centric theory of global warming they love so much failed to predict the 4324(12 year) absence of major hurricanes walloping the US. We were continually told that storms would become both more frequent and more severe as CO2 continued to rise unabated in our atmosphere. An almost 12 year absence of major hurricanes during a time of rapid CO2 increase belies their pet claim.
And as it turns out while Harvey is devastating it is NOT unprecedented. We are reminded of the category 4 storm that killed between 6 and 12 thousand people in Galveston in 1900. Also there was a hurricane in 1893 around the same time of year in South Carolina that killed one thousand people. And in 1897 over 6000 people were killed by a hurricane in the Philippines. CO2 was much lower in the late 19th century.
To allay our fears that this storm is anything unusual in the annals of weather history scientists tell us that
Texas is no stranger to the appearance of hurricanes. Harvey is number 64 since 1851 to make landfall in the Lone Star State. It had been 9 years since a hurricane made landfall in Texas. While the climate alarmists among us will use the devastation wrought by Harvey to hype their belief in man made global warming and crusade for social justice a little perspective makes Harvey an unwelcome but not surprising visitor from the Gulf of Mexico. We live on a water based planet with a chaotic atmosphere whirling above it. Weather is going to happen and sometimes some of us are going to experience its power in devastating ways. But we should remember that while there are 400 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere over Texas the same is true in Hawaii where it is just another day in paradise. Is it logical to blame CO2 for two such vastly different weather scenarios. Are there bad CO2 molecules in Texas while the good ones are in Hawaii? What would turn CO2 from Dr Jekyll into Mr Hyde? CO2 is CO2.
Those of us lucky enough not to be experiencing the ravages of Hurricane Harvey wish the citizens of Texas well and we stand by to assist in their hours of need.
Alito: 'A pollutant is a subject that is harmful to human beings or to animals or to plants. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Carbon dioxide is not harmful to ordinary things, to human beings, or to animals, or to plants. It’s actually needed for plant growth. All of us are exhaling carbon dioxide right now. So, if it’s a pollutant, we’re all polluting.'
CO2, a trace gas essential to life on Earth, is plant food. We exhale CO2 and help to feed the flora. In return they slip us oxygen of which we are rather fond in a mutually beneficial and amicable symbiotic relationship.
Plants grow better, stronger, faster because of the increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.
CO2 is clean and green. CO2 is a friend with BENEFITS. We need more of it not less. The globe is greening. It is a sign that CO2 is benign. CO2 has been exhaled during the creation of this post. No living thing was harmed. Some even liked it. Let the plants dance.
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