Author: Daniel

The Positive Impact of Human CO₂ Emissions on the Survival of Life on Earth

This study looks at the pos­i­tive envi­ron­men­tal effects of car­bon diox­ide (CO2) emis­sions, a top­ic which has been well estab­lished in the sci­en­tif­ic lit­er­a­ture but which is far too often ignored in the cur­rent dis­cus­sions about cli­mate change policy.

All life is car­bon based and the pri­ma­ry source of this car­bon is the CO2 in the glob­al atmosphere.

As recent­ly as 18,000 years ago, at the height of the most recent major glacia­tion, CO2 dipped to its low­est lev­el in record­ed his­to­ry at 180 ppm, low enough to stunt plant growth. This is only 30 ppm above a lev­el that would result in the death of plants due to CO2 starvation.

It is cal­cu­lat­ed that if the decline in CO2 lev­els were to con­tin­ue at the same rate as it has over the past 140 mil­lion years, life on Earth would begin to die as soon as two mil­lion years from now and would slow­ly per­ish almost entire­ly as car­bon con­tin­ued to be lost to the deep ocean sediments.

The com­bus­tion of fos­sil fuels for ener­gy to pow­er human civ­i­liza­tion has reversed the down­ward trend in CO2 and promis­es to bring it back to lev­els that are like­ly to fos­ter a con­sid­er­able increase in the growth rate and bio­mass of plants, includ­ing food crops and trees.

Human emis­sions of CO2 have restored a bal­ance to the glob­al car­bon cycle, there­by ensur­ing the long-term con­tin­u­a­tion of life on Earth.

This extreme­ly pos­i­tive aspect of human CO2 emis­sions must be weighed against the unproven hypoth­e­sis that human CO2emis­sions will cause a cat­a­stroph­ic warm­ing of the cli­mate in com­ing years.

The one-sided polit­i­cal treat­ment of CO2 as a pol­lu­tant that should be rad­i­cal­ly reduced must be cor­rect­ed in light of the indis­putable sci­en­tif­ic evi­dence that it is essen­tial to life on Earth.

PS185 – Moore-Positive-Impact-of-Human-CO2-Emissions_CF1

25 Funny things my mother taught me

Found at Wattpad.com, post­ed by brownielover1

  1. My moth­er taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
    “If you’re going to kill each oth­er, do it out­side. I just fin­ished cleaning.”
  2. My moth­er taught me RELIGION.
    “You bet­ter pray that will come out of the carpet.”
  3. My moth­er taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
    “If you don’t straight­en up, I’m going to knock you into the mid­dle of next week!”
  4. My moth­er taught me LOGIC.
    “Because I said so, that’s why.”
  5. My moth­er taught me MORE LOGIC.
    ‘If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you’re not going to the store with me.”
  6. My moth­er taught me FORESIGHT.
    “Make sure you wear clean under­wear, in case you’re in an accident.”
  7. Con­tin­ue read­ing 25 Fun­ny things my moth­er taught me

Suicide or murder?

At the 1994 annu­al awards din­ner giv­en by the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion for Foren­sic Sci­ence, AAFS Pres­i­dent Don Harp­er Mills astound­ed his audi­ence in San Diego with the legal com­pli­ca­tions of a bizarre death. Here is the story.

“On 23 March 1994, the med­ical exam­in­er viewed the body of Ronald Opus and con­clud­ed that he died from a shot­gun wound of the head. The dece­dent had jumped from the top of a ten-sto­ry build­ing intend­ing to com­mit sui­cide (he left a note indi­cat­ing his despon­den­cy). As he fell past the ninth floor, his life was inter­rupt­ed by a shot­gun blast through a win­dow, which killed him instant­ly. Nei­ther the shoot­er nor the dece­dent was aware that a safe­ty net had been erect­ed at the eighth floor lev­el to pro­tect some win­dow wash­ers and that Opus would not have been able to com­plete his sui­cide any­way because of this.”

“Ordi­nar­i­ly,” Dr. Mills con­tin­ued, “a per­son who sets out to com­mit sui­cide ulti­mate­ly suc­ceeds, even though the mech­a­nism might not be what he intended.”

Con­tin­ue read­ing Sui­cide or murder?

Three-step process for personal behavioural change

I want to briefly describe a process that I suc­cess­ful­ly applied to myself on sev­er­al occa­sions when I want­ed to change a dis­turb­ing behav­ior of myself. I devel­oped a three-step process for this purpose.

Prin­ci­ple: You are not your reac­tion. If peo­ple hurt you and you react hurt­ing them, then this is first and fore­most a reac­tion to your own injury. We do not actu­al­ly mean the per­son we are fac­ing, but real­ly only want to defend our­selves. There­fore: You are not your reac­tion. Your reac­tion is learned behav­ior. There are oth­er pos­si­bil­i­ties than to com­pen­sate in this way. These only have to be learned.

Con­tin­ue read­ing Three-step process for per­son­al behav­iour­al change

When God created woman

When God cre­at­ed woman, he worked late on the sixth day.

An angel came by and asked, “Why spend so much time with her?”

The Lord answered. “Have you seen all the spec­i­fi­ca­tions I have to meet to shape her?”

  • She has to func­tion in all pos­si­ble situations.
  • She has to be able to embrace sev­er­al chil­dren at the same time.
  • Be capa­ble of a hug that can heal any­thing from a crushed knee to a bro­ken heart.
  • She has to do it all with only two hands.
  • She heals her­self when she is sick and can work 18 hours a day.

The angel was impressed: “With only two hands … impos­si­ble! And this is the stan­dard model?”

The angel came clos­er and touched the woman.
“But you made her so soft, sir.”
“She’s soft,” said the Lord.
“But I have made her strong. You can’t imag­ine what she can endure and overcome.”

“Can she think?” asked the angel…
The Lord answered, “she can’t just think, she can reflect and negotiate.”

The angel touched her cheeks…
“Lord, it seems that this cre­ation is leak­ing! You’ve placed too many bur­dens on her.”
“It’s not leak­ing. These are tears”, the Lord cor­rect­ed the angel.

“What’s that for?” asked the angel.
The Lord said, “Tears are her way of express­ing her grief, her doubts, her love, her lone­li­ness, her sor­row and her pride.” …

That made a big impres­sion on the angel, “Lord, you are a genius. You’ve thought of every­thing. A woman is real­ly wonderful.”

The Lord said: “Indeed she is.

  • She has pow­er that amazes a man.
  • She can cope with prob­lems and car­ry heavy loads.
  • She holds hap­pi­ness, love and opinions.
  • She smiles when she wants to scream.
  • She sings when she feels like cry­ing, cries when she is hap­py and laughs when she is afraid.
  • She fights for what she believes in.
  • Her love is unconditional.
  • Her heart is bro­ken when a loved one or a friend dies, but she finds strength to go on living.”

The angel asked, “So, she’s a per­fect being?”
The Lord replied: “No. She only has one dis­ad­van­tage. She often for­gets what she’s worth”.

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