Category: Politik

Sor­ry, this entry is only avail­able in Deutsch.

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

In the con­text of the pop­u­lar denounce­ment, of the roy­al par­don of the Span­ish crim­i­nal con­vict­ed for rap­ing 11 Moroc­can chil­dren, and after exam­i­na­tion of the mat­ter from a glob­al per­spec­tive, by the free thought forum, the lat­er declares to the peo­ple of Moroc­co and every­where else:

Its sup­port to the fam­i­lies of the vic­tims and all Moroc­cans, and joins all free voic­es that had con­demned the par­don, and con­sid­ered it an insult to the dig­ni­ty of Moroc­can citizens.

The free thought forum also calls every­one to take their moral and polit­i­cal respon­si­bil­i­ty, and denun­ci­ates the dec­la­ra­tions of the “Islamist” gov­ern­ment attempt­ing to jus­ti­fy that wrong deci­sion, using lame pre­texts deep­en the insult inflict­ed upon the feel­ings of Moroc­cans, such as “nation­al inter­est” and “diplo­mat­ic complement”.

The forum strong­ly con­demns the sav­age repres­sion of the demon­stra­tors who took it to the streets to express their refusal of the afore­men­tioned par­don, which goes against all nation­al and inter­na­tion­al treaties and laws, grant­i­ng them free­dom of expres­sion and difference.

N.B. It’s worth not­ing that the Free Thought Forum is a civ­il orga­ni­za­tion found­ed by Moroc­can aca­d­e­mics, intel­lec­tu­als, artists, writ­ers, pro­fes­sors, jour­nal­ists, human rights activists, and lawyers to oppose tute­lage and author­i­tar­i­an­ism in all forms.

Source: Kacem El Ghazzali

Read the orig­i­nal text of this arti­cle right at the source, at atheistica.com

To read this arti­cle in ger­man or french, switch the lan­guage as desired.

This post con­tains the ger­man trans­la­tion of the arti­cle “Switzer­land: Here are my views on Burqa” by Kacem El Ghaz­za­li. No need to repeat it here, please vis­it his blog to read it in english.

Con­tin­ue read­ing Ka­cem El Ghaz­zali: Liebe Schweiz, hier sind meine Ansicht­en über die Burka

I have just met Khacem El Ghaz­a­ali on Face­book. He is a young man from Moroc­co, who had to flee due to being per­se­cut­ed for his blog­ging activ­i­ties. He asked for asy­lum in Switzer­land, where he was tak­en pro­vi­sion­al­ly as of now. He cur­rent­ly lives some­where in the ger­man speak­ing part of Switzer­land. A news­pa­per report about him can be found here (in ger­man). So, I just found his Face­book pro­file, and then this report about his arrival in the Swiss asy­lum sys­tem: “Switzer­land WAKE UP!”

In anoth­er arti­cle, he talks about his stance about the burqa: “Switzer­land: here are my views on Burqa”.

• “offi­cial” Face­book pro­file with his pub­lic accouncements
• per­son­al Face­book profile
• ara­bic blog
• eng­lish blog

The man needs all of our sup­port. Let’s talk about him! Let’s dis­cuss his statements!