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By Bob McDowell (Born Neil Carson) Number 18-49
DANGEROUS 'FAKE' SCIENCE Week of 2018/12/03
Just two weeks before the 'mid-term' election day' on
October 23 there was a mid-sized story, page width by 4.75 inches,
which was buried within the obituary section of our daily news(?)
paper carrying the headline: "U.S. report: Efforts to suck carbon
from air must be ramped up". The headline makes one wonder if it
really isn't an opinion column!! It carried a by-line credit to 'Seth
Borenstein' of the Associated Press and datelined 'Washington'.
Included was a picture looking like the real thing but labeled an
illustration 'shows one of the designs to remove carbon dioxide
from the atmosphere'. From my scientific point of view, 'what a
stupid and expensive, wasteful, and possibly fatal program'.
In my memory from science class at Lee elementary school
in Tulsa, we were taught that there is a joint dependency for life
itself between the floral and animal species. The vegetation
plants NEED to have carbon dioxide to live by taking in the
CO2, using the carbon to make their bodies and 'breathing out'
oxygen, which animal life, including the human race MUST have
to live. So it appears to me that these 'scientists' who have
bought into the mantra that carbon dioxide must be removed
from the air were not taught the same as were we in the "Class of '43".
The headline of the story made me think they were
referring to elemental carbon partials, rather than the
composition of carbon dioxide. There is no problem in my
mind about removing carbon particles from the air, as they
are very detrimental to human life. Just remember the coal
miners deadly condition called 'black lung' caused by
breathing the coal dust in the mines before the development
of large ventilation systems, or the use of breathing through filter masks.
Another fallacy in the 'fake science' world is that
carbon dioxide is that the gas is one of the 'blanket gasses'
if not the most effective one. Not so, according to my
education. Further, the push to end gasoline or diesel
powered piston engines for transportation is another fallacy
given that the exhaust from, at least the former, consists
primarily of 'carbon monoxide' which is well known to be
a very poisonist gas, which in enough concentration can
kill a human in minutes.
On the other hand, there are annually massive forest
fires in the West, most recently California, which produce
so much more CO2 than do autos that a move to prevent
them would be much more helpful and less deadly to those
folks. Some forest 'experts', not of the 'tree-hugger'
movement, have blamed the size and ferocity of them on
the rules against clearing the 'trash' of dead vegetation
from the forest land, and even preventing residents from
clearing their own property. Being California, though, does
that surprise anyone. It occurred to me that if they would
build their houses and buildings out of concrete and steel
they might withstand a nearby fire and serve as firebreaks
to stop the spread!!
There is, however, a much more sinister possibility
that came to my attention, by accident, back in 1973.
My middle son was 11 and in the Cub Scouts Weebalos
den, in Colorado and our pack had a practice of taking the
boys on a camp out in the mountains. Each boy had to
have a dad responsible for him present. After we had the
boys in the tents we dads were sitting around the campfire
and getting acquainted, including our vocations. When,
during my turn, the subject was finding and producing oil
and gas, one of the other dads stated that we were going
to be 'put out of business'. After my question of "then
how will you feed, cloth, heat, cool, and transport the
people". His reply was the effect that "we will reduce the
population by starvation or eradication. My question then
was "what if the majority remaining took a dim view of that
operation and, being armed, would resist?" He retorted to
the effect that "we will disarm the population or use gas".
The shocker came with his turn to state a vocation of
"Junior High Science Teacher"!! Going on today?
END
Composed November 21, 2018
Robert W. McDowell, Jr. © 2018 841 Lynwood Lane
918-451-1051 Broken Arrow OK 74011-8608
Email: abdmcfpi@localnet.com
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