VIEW: 18-49: Dangerous 'Fake' Science

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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 particles, 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 youngest 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?
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Composed November 21, 2018
Robert W. McDowell, Jr. 841 Lynwood Lane
918-451-1051 Broken Arrow OK 74011-8608
Email: abdmcfpi@localnet.com