Carbon Dioxide: The Good News
Carbon Dioxide Boosts Crop Production By $140 Billion Per Year
Carbon Dioxide Boosts Crop Production By $140 Billion Per Year
In an important new report published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, former IPCC delegate Dr Indur Goklany calls for a reassessment of carbon dioxide, which he says has many benefits for the natural world and for humankind. --Global Warming Policy Foundation, 12 October 2015
Carbon dioxide fertilises plants, and emissions from fossil fuels have
already had a hugely beneficial effect on crops, increasing yields by at least
10-15%. This has not only been good for humankind but for the natural world
too, because an acre of land that is not used for crops is an acre of land that
is left for nature. Unlike the claims of future global warming disasters these
benefits are firmly established and are being felt now. Yet despite this the
media overlook the good news and the public remain in the dark. My report
should begin to restore a little balance. –Indur Goklany, --Global Warming Policy Foundation, 12 October 2015
Carbon dioxide is “hugely beneficial” for humankind, boosting global crop production to the tune of $140bn (£91.4bn) per year, according to a radical new report out today. The Global Warming Policy Foundation, which analyses the financial implications of responses to climate change, is calling for a reassessment of carbon dioxide, which he believes has been given too much bad press – its new report says. --Ravender Sembhy, City A.M., 12 October 2015
I am suggesting that the thinking of politicians and scientists about controversial issues today is still tribal. Science and politics are not essentially different from other aspects of human culture. Science and politics are products of cultural evolution. Thinking about scientific questions is still presented to the public as a competitive sport with winners and losers. For players of the sport with public reputations to defend, it is more important to belong to a winning team than to examine the evidence... To enable a tribe to prevail in the harsh world of predators and prey, it was helpful to have brains with strong emotional bonding to shared songs and stories. It was not helpful to have brains questioning whether the stories were true. Our scientists and politicians of the modern age evolved recently from the cave-children. They still, as Charles Darwin remarked about human beings in general, bear the indelible stamp of their lowly origin. --Freeman Dyson, Global Warming Policy Foundation, 12 October 2015
The life of physicist Freeman Dyson spans advising bomber command in World War II, working at Princeton University in the States as a contemporary of Einstein, and providing advice to the US government on a wide range of scientific and technical issues. He is a rare public intellectual who writes prolifically for a wide audience. An Obama supporter who describes himself as "100 per cent Democrat," Dyson says he is disappointed that the President "chose the wrong side." Increasing CO2 in the atmosphere does more good than harm, he argues, but it is not an insurmountable crisis. Climate change, he tells us, "is not a scientific mystery but a human mystery. How does it happen that a whole generation of scientific experts is blind to obvious facts?" --Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 12 October 2015
My Take - Dyson says some things here that are accurate and then turns around and made statements that made me question his understanding, especially about the models being more accurate - at least that's the way it sounded to me - and this clabber about sea levels rising. My questioning ended when he said he's a 100% Democrat and liked Obama. With that- he lost all credibility with me, even if he did get some things right. I'm not impressed with his IQ, what science he worked on, who he knew, who he worked with and what he did in the past. None of that gives someone a pass on the rest of life. If he's 100% a Democrat who likes Obama it means he's a leftist who has to believe in - and support - things which economically unsound, morally unsound, irrational and misanthropic. I saw this article and didn't post it because he's like a ping pong ball bouncing all around the room - over educated, under smart and a leaky vessel as a ally for promoting truth in science. Hmmmmm……I wonder if he's ever read a history book?
Source: Benny Peiser’s Global Warming Policy Foundation
Carbon dioxide is “hugely beneficial” for humankind, boosting global crop production to the tune of $140bn (£91.4bn) per year, according to a radical new report out today. The Global Warming Policy Foundation, which analyses the financial implications of responses to climate change, is calling for a reassessment of carbon dioxide, which he believes has been given too much bad press – its new report says. --Ravender Sembhy, City A.M., 12 October 2015
I am suggesting that the thinking of politicians and scientists about controversial issues today is still tribal. Science and politics are not essentially different from other aspects of human culture. Science and politics are products of cultural evolution. Thinking about scientific questions is still presented to the public as a competitive sport with winners and losers. For players of the sport with public reputations to defend, it is more important to belong to a winning team than to examine the evidence... To enable a tribe to prevail in the harsh world of predators and prey, it was helpful to have brains with strong emotional bonding to shared songs and stories. It was not helpful to have brains questioning whether the stories were true. Our scientists and politicians of the modern age evolved recently from the cave-children. They still, as Charles Darwin remarked about human beings in general, bear the indelible stamp of their lowly origin. --Freeman Dyson, Global Warming Policy Foundation, 12 October 2015
The life of physicist Freeman Dyson spans advising bomber command in World War II, working at Princeton University in the States as a contemporary of Einstein, and providing advice to the US government on a wide range of scientific and technical issues. He is a rare public intellectual who writes prolifically for a wide audience. An Obama supporter who describes himself as "100 per cent Democrat," Dyson says he is disappointed that the President "chose the wrong side." Increasing CO2 in the atmosphere does more good than harm, he argues, but it is not an insurmountable crisis. Climate change, he tells us, "is not a scientific mystery but a human mystery. How does it happen that a whole generation of scientific experts is blind to obvious facts?" --Andrew Orlowski, The Register, 12 October 2015
My Take - Dyson says some things here that are accurate and then turns around and made statements that made me question his understanding, especially about the models being more accurate - at least that's the way it sounded to me - and this clabber about sea levels rising. My questioning ended when he said he's a 100% Democrat and liked Obama. With that- he lost all credibility with me, even if he did get some things right. I'm not impressed with his IQ, what science he worked on, who he knew, who he worked with and what he did in the past. None of that gives someone a pass on the rest of life. If he's 100% a Democrat who likes Obama it means he's a leftist who has to believe in - and support - things which economically unsound, morally unsound, irrational and misanthropic. I saw this article and didn't post it because he's like a ping pong ball bouncing all around the room - over educated, under smart and a leaky vessel as a ally for promoting truth in science. Hmmmmm……I wonder if he's ever read a history book?
Source: Benny Peiser’s Global Warming Policy Foundation
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