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THIS POST IS A PRESENTATION OF THE CASE BY PETER DAUVERGNE THAT ENVIRONMENTALISM CONTAINS A BIAS SUCH THAT THE VALUES AND PRIORITIES OF THE RICH DOMINATE.

LINK TO THE BOOK REVIEW: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/environmentalism-rich

PART-1: WHAT THE SOURCE ARTICLE SAYS

What it means for global sustainability when environmentalism is dominated by the concerns of the affluent as for example, “wilderness preservation”. Environmentalism is a counterforce to environmental destruction caused by industrialization. Environmental activists have fought hard to make the earth a better place to live. But the environmental movement has not brought about meaningful progress toward global sustainability with the result of decreasing biodiversity, scarcity of fresh water, and steadily rising greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, the environmental movement is increasingly dominated by the environmentalism of the rich with diverted into eco-business, eco-consumption, wilderness preservation, energy efficiency, and recycling. While it’s good that, for example, Barbie dolls’ packaging no longer depletes Indonesian rainforest, and that Toyota Highlanders are available as hybrids, none of this gets at the source of the current sustainability crisis. More eco-products can just mean more corporate profits, consumption, and waste. Dauvergne examines extraction booms that leave developing countries poor and environmentally devastated with the ruination of the South Pacific island of Nauru a case in point; the struggles against consumption inequities of courageous activists like Bruno Manser, who worked with indigenous people to try to save the rainforests of Borneo; and the manufacturing of vast markets for nondurable goods, for example, convincing parents in China that disposable diapers made for healthier and smarter babies. Dauvergne reveals why a global political economy of ever more … more growth, more sales, more consumption, is swamping environmental gains. Environmentalism of the rich does little to bring about the sweeping institutional change necessary to make progress toward global sustainability.

THE CHART ABOVE SHOWS THAT OTHER THAN THE 1930 AND THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISES, THE OVERALL TREND OF THE DJIA STOCK MARKET INDEX IN THE CLIMATE CHANGE ERA HAS BEEN BULLISH WITH A STRONG AND SUSTAINED OVERALL RISING TREND AT AN AVERAGE GAIN OF ABOUT 289 POINTS PER YEAR.

THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS IS PRESENTED IN A RELATED POST LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/02/21/brianwesbury/

A common theme in climate activism by teenagers is that, quite unlike climate science where the issue is that burning fossil fuels causes atmospheric CO2 to rise, the underlying issue in teenage activism is environmentalism.

What’s more is that the environmentalism view of the teenagers is the Bambi-ism that humans are an unnatural and destructive force that threatens nature and that it is the responsibility of the humans therefore to manage and take care of nature:

LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/11/15/the-bambi-principle/

This environmentalism fear and fervor of the teenagers derives from a corruption of the middle school curriculum in the age of tree hugger Bambi environmentalism where environmentalism has morphed from the idea that human welfare can be enhanced by humans managing their surroundings (“Environ” in French) to the Bambi-ism that humans are the managers and caretakers of nature.

THE IMPRESSIONABLE YOUNG KIDS EMERGE FROM MIDDLE SCHOOL THUS SCARED TO DEATH OF A HUMAN DESTRUCTION OF INNOCENT NATURE SCENARIO. OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM HAS BECOME CORRUPTED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM OF TEACHERS AND WE PROPOSE THAT THIS EFFECT ON OUR KIDS IS A KIND OF CHILD ABUSE.

THIS KIND OF ENVIRONMENTALISM FEAR MONGERING AND CHILD ABUSE HAS SPREAD OUTSIDE OF THE USA TO PLACES LIKE SWEDEN: LINK: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/sweden-s-environmental-education-building-generation-greta-thunbergs-n1106876

There we find that Sweden’s environmental education is creating green revolutionaries, that think that the humans are destroying nature and that their future is a kind of eco wacko holocaust. That 17-year-old Greta Thunberg became the face of climate change action may have taken the world by surprise, but in Sweden, young people have long been thus eco wacko brainwashed.

The eco wacko fearmongering that have trumatized kids in Sweden make them do things like taking off their shoes when entering the school building to reduce the need for chemical floor cleaners that harm the environment. This kind of environmentalism is integrated into every aspect of their education from elementary school through middle school and in high school. Their classrooms are decorated with world maps and images of animals that have become endangered because of the evil humans.

An 11-year old school girl expresses her environmentalism as “I have two different visions of the world. It’s either a beautiful world and we fixed everything and we saved the climate and the environment, or it’s just getting worse and we can’t do anything and we’re all going to die because we didn’t do anything to save the environment. I hope it’s going to be a beautiful world, but you have to do something now to get there.

The worship of something called “the environment” has become an integral part of the curriculum from elementary school to high school since 1969. Our relationship with nature has become the prominent subject of education and activism in schools. The West’s environmentalism eco wacko culture and the environmental activism of teachers have corrupted education and embarked on an environmental crusade promoting a kind of activism that can be described as child abuse.

IN A RELATED POST WE PRESENT THE CASE THAT THE ECO WACKO VIEW OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMANS AND THE REST OF NATURE HAS EMERGED AS A NEW RELIGION;

LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/10/11/anthropogenic-global-warming-in-a-post-modern-world/

THIS POST IS A CRITICAL REVIEW OF AN ONLINE ARTICLE BY ABC SCIENCE ABOUT A BLACK BOX TO RECORD HOW WE ARE DEALING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE: LINK TO SOURCE: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-12-06/climate-change-earth-black-box-recorder/100621778

PART-1: WHAT THE ARTICLE SAYS (IN BRIEF)

Earth is getting a black box to record our climate change actions, and it’s already started listening. The black box will be built in what the developers say is an extremely geologically stable location in Tasmania where, on a granite-strewn plain surrounded by gnarled mountains sits a giant steel box. The messages it contains, they gives the viewer a glimpse of what caused the fall of the civilisation that was there before climate change caused itws collapse. This box is a tool kind of like the black box in aircraft that records its demise except that the climate black box is bigger, about 10 by 4 by 3 meters. The Tasmanian coast was chosen as the site for the climate black box for its geopolitical and geological stability. The idea is that the Tasmanian site can cradle the black box for the benefit of a future civilisation after catastrophic climate change causes the downfall of our civilization. We’re currently on track for 2.7C of warming this century. Ask any climate scientist what happens when warming breaches 2C. The short answer is the end of our civilization. Plenty of past civilisations and empires have collapsed due to climate change. This is a powerful concept becaus now Earth has a black box. It’s designed to record our actions. It’s built to outlive us. If the worst does happen this thing will still be there.

PART-2: CRITICAL COMMENTARY

AS WE SEE IN THIS RELATED POST: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/10/05/a-quora-question-3/ , THE ASSUMPTION BY ABC SCIENCE AND THE BUILDERS OF THE BLACK BOX THAT GLOBAL WARMING CAN WIPE OUT HUMAN CIVILIZATION IS NOT AN EXAGGERATION BUT IS SUPPORTED BY THE DATA FOR PRIOR GLOBAL WARMING CYCLES OF THE HOLOCENE. IN THIS DETAILED HISTORY OF PRIOR GLOBAL WARMING CYCLES WE FIND HORRIFIC CASES OF THE DESTRUCTION OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION BY GLOBAL WARMING AND THESE DESTROYED CIVILIZATIONS INCLUDE THE LATE BRONZE AGE CIVILIZATION, THE ROMAN EMPIRE CIVILIZATION, AND THE MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATION. THESE CIVILIZATIONS ARE PICTURED BELOW.

THEREFORE WE PROPOSE THAT THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR CURRENT CIVILIZATION BY GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT AS FAR FETCHED AN ARGUMENT AS MANY CLIMATE DENIERS HAVE CLAIMED.

HOWEVER, THE REAL ISSUE IN THE CLIMATE CHANGE ALARM OF OUR TIME IS NOT THAT WE ARE EXPERIENCING GLOBAL WARMNG. THE REAL ISSUE HERE IS HUMAN CAUSE. CLIMATE SCIENCE CLAIMS THAT GLOBAL WARMING IS A CREATION OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION OF THE HUMANS ABOUT A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. IT IS CAUSED BY HUMANS BURNING FOSSIL FUELS AND THEREFORE WE HUMANS CAN STOP GLOBAL WARMING IF WE STOP BURNING FOSSIL FUELS. THIS CALL TO CLIMATE ACTION IN THE FORM OF NOT BURNING FOSSIL FUELS IS THE ESSENTIAL FEATURE OF THE GLOBAL ACTIVISM OF OUR TIME WITH THE WARMING ITSELF SIMPLY THE RAISON D ETAT.

THEREFORE, THE ESSENTIAL FEATURE OF THE GLOBAL WARMING MOVEMENT IS HUMAN CAUSE AND YET ITS WEAKEST LINK IN TERMS OF EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE IS HUMAN CAUSE: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/11/09/the-issue-is-human-cause/ AND WHAT WE FIND IN THE DATA IS THAT INTERGLACIALS, NOT JUST THE HOLOCENE BUT ALSO THE EEMIAN, ARE NEVER AT A CONSTANT TEMPERATURE BUT ARE ALWAYS GOING THROUGH ALTERNATING WARMING AND COOLING CYCLES AT CENTENNIAL TO MILENNIAL TIME SCALES. THEREFORE, AND IN THAT CONTEXT, WE PROPOSE THAT THE PRESENTATION OF YET ANOTHER GLOBAL WARMING CYCLE OF THE HOLOCENE AS HUMAN CAUSED SIMPLY BECAUSE IT CAME AFTER THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, IS NOT CREDIBLE.

EXTRACT FROM THE RELATED POST ABOVE

IN THIS HISTORY OF THE HOLOCENE, THE CURRENT WARMING CAN BE UNDERSTOOD AS THE NATURAL WARMING CYCLE THAT FOLLOWS THE NATURAL LITTLE ICE AGE COOLING CYCLE.

IT IS SIGNIFICANT THAT THE CURRENT WARMING CYCLE WAS NOT FORECAST FROM HUMAN ACTIVITY THAT COULD CAUSE SUCH A THING BUT WAS CLAIMED FOR HUMAN CAUSE AFTER THE FACT.

EEMIAN LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2018/12/21/eemian/

HOLOCENE LINK#1: https://tambonthongchai.com/2019/06/11/chaoticholocene/

HOLOCENE LINK#2: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/10/05/a-quora-question-3/

HOLOCENE LINK#3: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/10/05/a-quora-question-3/

HOLOCENE LINK#4: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/05/12/human-cause-in-the-anthropocene/

THAT THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION HAPPENS TO FALL IN BETWEEN THESE TEMPERATURE CYCLES OF THE HOLOCENE CANNOT BE TAKEN AS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF HUMAN CAUSE PARTICULARLY SO SINCE CLIMATE SCIENCE IS UNABLE TO RELATE THESE EVENTS IN TERMS OF TIMING.

CLIMATE SCIENCE CLAIMS A CRITICAL ROLE IN THEIR THEORY FOR “THE PRE-INDUSTRIAL YEAR” WHEN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION STARTED GLOBAL WARMING BUT THEY DON’T KNOW WHEN THAT PRE-INDUSTRIAL YEAR WAS EXACTLY AS SHOWN BELOW. YET, THEY PROPOSE A CRITICAL AMOUNT OF WARMING THAT MUST NOT BE EXCEEDED AS MEASURED “SINCE THAT CRITICAL PRE INDUSTRIAL YEAR AND REFERRED TO AS “SINCE PRE-INDUSTRIAL”.

QUESTION: WHEN DID HUMAN CAUSED GLOBAL WARMING START? ANSWER: CALLENDAR 1938: IT STARTED IN 1900, HANSEN1988, IT STARTED IN 1950, IPCC2001, IT STARTED IN 1750, IPCC 2015: IT STARTED IN 1850, NASA 2020: IT STARTED IN 1950.

ETCW: YET ANOTHER UNRESOLVED ISSUE IN THIS TIMING PROPOSITION IS THE ETCW MYSTERY IN CLIMATE SCIENCE WHERE “EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY WARMING” (ETCW) 1900 TO 1950 REMAINS UNEXPLAINED.

OTHER ISSUES: WEAKNESSES IN THE CAUSATION HYPOTHESIS INVOLVE ISSUES IN EQUILIBRIUM CLIMATE SENSITIVITY UNCERTAINTY AND THE TCRE MATHEMATICAL INCONSISTENCY DESCRIBED IN THE DOCUMENTS LINKED BELOW.

LINK#1: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/05/10/the-climate-sensitivity-issue/

LINK#2: https://tambonthongchai.com/2018/05/06/tcre/

LINK#3: https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/08/26/a-mathematical-inconsistency/

LINK#4: https://tambonthongchai.com/2018/05/31/the-carbon-cycle-measurement-problem/

LINK#5: https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/06/10/a-monte-carlo-simulation-of-the-carbon-cycle/

LINK#6: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/10/05/rising-atmospheric-co2/

LINK#7: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/05/18/climate-science-vs-statistics/

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION

WITH REGARD TO EVIDENCE OF HUMAN CAUSE, A PECULIAR CLAIM MADE BY CLIMATE SCIENCE IS THAT HUMAN CAUSE IS PROVEN BY THE SEVERITY OF THE WARMING THAT IS THE STRONGEST AND HOTTEST IN THE LAST 2,000 YEARS. THERE ARE TWO WEAKNESSES IN THIS CLAIM. THE FIRST IS THAT THE HOLOCENE IS ABOUT 9,000 YEARS OLD AND THE LIMITATION OF THE COMPARISON PERIOD TO 2,000 YEARS INVALIDATES THE ESSENCE OF THE CLAIM. MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE INTENSITY OF THE WARMING DOES NOT PROVE HUMAN CAUSE. THROUGHOUT THE HOLOCENE WE HAVE ALTERNATING WARMING AND COOLING CYCLES AT MILLENNIAL AND CENTENNIAL TIME SCALES BUT THEY ARE ALL DIFFERENT WITH SOME STRONGER AND HOTTER THAN OTHERS. THESE DIFFERENCES DO NOT IMPLY HUMAN CAUSE AS THEY ARE NATURAL AND THERE IS NO BASIS FOR THE EXPECTATION THAT INTERGLACIAL TEMPERATURE CYCLES SHOULD BE OF EQUAL SEVERITY. THESE KINDS OF COMICAL INCONSISTENCIES IN CLIMATE SCIENCE CAN BE UNDERSTOOD IN THE WAY ACTIVISM CORRUPTS SCIENCE AS DESCRIBED IN A RELATED POST: https://tambonthongchai.com/2019/02/03/hidden-hand/

THE NEED FOR FEARFUL CLIMATE IMPACTS TO PUSH THE CLIMATE ACTION PROPOSITION OF CLIMATE SCIENCE IS ILLOGICAL AND WITHOUT SUBSTANCE IN THE ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE OF HUMAN CAUSE BECAUSE CLIMATE ACTION IS IRRELEVANT WITHOUT HUMAN CAUSE. THIS ODDITY OF THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT IS BEST UNDERSTOOD IN TERMS OF THEIR INABILITY TO PRESENT CONVINCING EVIDENCE OF HUMAN CAUSE. THIS SITUATION LEAVES THEM WITH ONLY THEIR FEAR APPEAL MOVEMENT FOR CLIMATE ACTION BASED ON THE HARM THAT CLIMATE IMPACTS CAN DO IF CLIMATE ACTION IS NOT TAKEN.

IN THE ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE FOR HUMAN CAUSE THE LOGICAL RESPONSE TO GLOBAL WARMING IS ADAPTATION AND GEOENGINEERING STRATEGIES. THE USE OF FEARFUL CLIMATE IMPACTS AND A FEAR APPEAL MOVEMENT TO PUSH CLIMATE ACTION OBSTRUCTS THE RATIONAL POLICY OF ADAPTTION AND GEOENGINEERING AND IN THAT RESPECT, THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT THAT IS PUSHING CLIMATE ACTION BY WAY OF FEAR APPEAL ACTIVISM IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.

BOTTOM LINE: NO DEMAND FOR CLIMATE ACTION CAN BE MADE WITHOUT CONVINCING EVIDENCE OF HUMAN CAUSE PARTICULARLY SO SINCE (#1) NATURAL GLOBAL WARMING IS NORMAL IN INTERGLACIALS, AND (#2) THE CLIMATE ACTION DEMANDED IS COSTLY.

RELATED POST ON CLIMATE ADAPTATION: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/10/13/climate-change-fear-appeal/

RELATED POST ON GEOENGINEERING: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/03/25/climate-fearology-vs-geoengineering/

EVALUATION#1: All dogs go to heaven. Well, except maybe not YOUR dog!

EVALUATION#2: SCIENCE DENYING TWERP

EVALUATION#3:  opinions and whitewashing and cherry picking!

EVALUATION#4: Opinions are abundant. Facts should prevail. Pay attention to the science!

EVALUATION#5: So are cigarettes good for your health? Is asbestos safe?, Do diesel engines not produce pollution?

EVALUATION#6: The denial script is the same over and over again. Listen to the science and think for yourself!

EVALUATION#7: Who is paying you to do this? Exxon?

EVALUATION#8: EVALUATION#8: YOUR ANSWER TO What is Earth’s biggest problem right now?has been deleted!

EVALUATION#9: LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE!

EVALUATION#10: Grow up and pay attention to the Science!

QUESTION: HOW WAS BANGLADESH DURING THE LAST ICE AGE?

ANSWER:

The most recent glaciation cycle was from about 210,000 years ago to about 10,000 years ago.

There was no Bangladesh then.

There were no nation states then.

There was no human civilization then.

Human civilization is a creation of the first global warming cycle of the Holocene interglacial.

FOR DETAILS PLEASE SEE: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/06/27/modern-humans-climate-change/

THIS POST IS A RESPONSE TO THE CALL FOR CLIMATE ACTION AGAINST FOSSIL FUELS WITH VENUS PRESENTED AS EVIDENCE THAT FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS MUST BE ELIMINATED TO SAVE THE PLANET EARTH. LINK TO SOURCE: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/22807575/venus-hot-hellscape-climate-change-earth

PART-1: WHAT THE SOURCE ARTICLE SAYS

“Hellscape” is the most appropriate word to describe the surface of Venus, the second planet from the sun. At 900 degrees Fahrenheit, it’s the hottest planet in the solar system, thanks to an atmosphere that’s almost entirely made up of carbon dioxide. Clouds made of highly corrosive sulfuric acid are draped over a volcanic landscape of razor-sharp lava flows. Most crushingly, the pressure on the surface of Venus is about 92 times the pressure you’d feel at sea level on Earth. “It’s really almost entertainingly, comically horrible, like some sort of cosmic deity had a really, really grumpy day and just went ‘Nope, I’m gonna ruin this planet,’” Robin George Andrews, a science journalist and volcanologist, says. Andrews compares it to being in a pressure cooker a mile underwater. “If you stood on the surface, you would be pancaked and you would melt,” he says. Your eyes would explode due to the pressure — “which would be gross,” he adds. Yet as Andrews relays in his new book, Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond, some scientists suspect Venus was once much like Earth, with a liquid water ocean like the ones that support life on our planet. For Andrews, the question of what happened to ruin Venus is captivating and even existential. “Venus and Earth are planetary siblings,” he says. “They were made at the same time and made of the same stuff, yet Venus is apocalyptic and awful in every possible way. Earth is a paradise. So why do we have a paradise next to a paradise lost?” Scientists know something on Venus triggered truly catastrophic levels of climate change, causing surface temperatures to shoot up hundreds of degrees. But they don’t know exactly what. I spoke to Andrews for an episode of Unexplainable, Vox’s science podcast about unanswered questions, about what could have triggered Venus’s apocalypse and why we should care about it. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity. The podcast episode also features a discussion with Sara Seager, an MIT planetary scientist and an expert on exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, who raises the tantalizing question: What if, despite the cataclysm, something is still alive on Venus? The origins of Venus could tell us a lot about our place in the universe.

PART-2: WHAT THE FATHER OF CLIMATE CHANGE SAYS

MORE ON THE VENUS ANALOGY BY NASA CLIMATE SCIENTIST JAMES HANSEN, THE FATHER OF CLIMATE CHANGE. LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/08/08/climate-wisdom-from-the-father-of-climate-change/

WHAT DO I KNOW THAT WOULD CAUSE ME, A RETICENT MID-WESTERN SCIENTIST, TO GET MYSELF ARRESTED IN FRONT OF THE WHITE HOUSE? AND WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU KNEW WHAT I KNOW. LET’S START WITH HOW I GOT TO THIS POINT. I WAS LUCKY TO GROW UP AT A TIME WHEN IT WAS NOT DIFFICULT FOR THE CHILD OF A TENANT FARMER TO MAKE HIS WAY TO TH STATE UNIVERSITY AND I WAS REALLY LUCKY TO GO TO THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA WHERE I COULD STUDY UNDER PROFESSOR JAMES VAN ALLEN WHO BUILT INSTRUMENTS FOR THE FIRST AMERICAN SATELLITE. PROFESOR VAN ALLEN TOLD ME ABOUT OBSERVATIONS OF VENUS. THAT THERE WAS INTENSE MICROWAVE RADIATION. DID IT MEAN THAT VENUS HAD AN IONOSPHERE? OR WAS VENUS EXREMELY HOT? THE RIGHT ANSWER, CONFIRME BY THE SOVIET VENERA SPACECRAFT, WAS THAT VENUS WAS VERY HOT, 900F, AND IT WAS KEPT HOT BY A THICK CARBON DIOXIDE ATMOSPHERE. I WAS FORTUNATE TO JOIN NASA WHERE I SUCCESSFULLY PROPOSED AN EXPERIMENT TO FLY TO VENUS. OUR INSTRUMENTS TOOK THIS IMAGE OF THE VEIL OF VENUS WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE A SMOG OF SULFURIC ACID.

PART-3: CRITICAL COMMENTARY

ITEM#1: THE TWO PLANETS ARE NOT COMPARABLE SUCH THAT CLIMATE CONDITIONS ON EARTH CAN BE UNDERSTOOD NOT FROM CONDITIONS ON EARTH BUT FROM CONDITIONS IN VENUS. FIRST AND FOREMOST, THE TWO ATMOSPHERES ARE NOT COMPARABLE BECAUSE THE VENUS ATMOSPHERE IS PRETTY MUCH 100% CO2 AND IS 100 TIMES MORE DENSE THAN THE ATMOSPHERE ON EARTH WHEREAS THE EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE IS MOSTLY NITROGEN WITH SOME OXYGEN AND MINUTE PORTIONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE MEASURED IN PARTS PER MILLION. ALSO THE EARTH IS MOSTLY OCEAN WITH SMALL PARTS OF IT COVERED BY LAND WHEREAS VENUS HAS NO OCEAN. AND BESIDES THERE IS A LARGE DIFFERENCE IN SPIN RATE. THE NEED TO COMPARE THESE VERY DIFFERENT PLANETS AS A WAY OF PRESENTING A CASE AGAINST THE COMBUSTION OF FOSSIL FUELS ON EARTH HAS NO RATIONAL INTERPRETATION EXCEPT FOR THE DESPERATION OF CLIMATE SCIENCE IN THE ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE FOR THEIR ACTIVISM AGAINST FOSSIL FUELS.

ITEM#2: THE OBSESSION OF CLIMATE SCIENCE WITH ATMOSPHERIC CO2 AS THE ONLY POSSIBLE DRIVER OF INTERGLACIAL GLOBAL WARMING CYCLES REQUIRES THAT THEY MUST PROVIDE A CARBON DIOXIDE ARGUMENT FOR THE PRIOR FOUR GLOBAL WARMING CYCLES OF THE HOLOCENE AS WELL AS THE HORRIFIC GLOBAL WARMING CYCLES OF THE EEMIAN ONE OF WHICH HAD CAUSED THE WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET {WAIS} TO DISINTEGRATE. CLIMATE SCIENCE NOT ONLY ACKLNOWLEDGES THAT EVENT IN THE EEMIAN BUT HAS USED IT AS A BASIS FOR REPEATED FAILED FORECASTS OF A SIMILAR DISINTEGRATION OF THE WAIS IN THE HOLOCENE. {FOOTNOTE: GLOBAL WARMING WITHOUT FOSSIL FUELS CAUSED A DISINTEGRATION OF THE WAIS BUT GLOBAL WARMING WITH FOSSIL FUELS FAILED TO REPEAT THAT PERFORMANCE}.

NO SUCH ARGUMENT HAS BEEN PRESENTED BY CLIMATE SCIENCE AND NO CO2 THEORY HAS BEEN PROPOSED TO EXPLAIN THE MANY WARMING AND COOLING CYCLES AT 100 TO 1000 YEAR TIME SCALES THAT ARE FOUND IN BOTH OF THESE TWO INTERGLACIALS. EVEN IN THE CURRENT WARMING CYCLE OF THE HOLOCENE THAT HAPPENS TO COME AFTER THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, CLIMATE SCIENCE CLAIMS THAT THE OBSERVED RISE IN ATMOSPHERIC CO2 IS CAUSED BY FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS AND IT IS THIS RISE THAT CAUSES WARMING. HOWEVER, NO EVIDENCE IS PROVIDED FOR THE ASSUMED RESPONSIVENESS OF ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION TO FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS AND THE ESSENTIAL CLIMATE SENSITIVITY PARAMETER NEEDED TO RELATE WARMING TO RISING ATMOSPHERIC CO2 CONTAINS LARGE UNCERTAINTIES AS EXPLAINED IN A RELATED POST ON THIS SITE: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/05/18/climate-science-vs-statistics/

CONCLUSION

THE DESPERATION VENUS ARGUMENT FOR HUMAN CAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING ON EARTH IS BEST UNDERSTOOD IN TERMS OF THE FAILURE OF CLIMATE SCIENCE TO PRESENT EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR THE THEORY THAT FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS CAUSE ATMOSPHERIC CO2 TO RISE AND RISING ATMOSPHERIC CO2 IN TURN CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING AND THEREFORE THE CURRENT WARMING CYCLE OF THE HOLOCENE MUST BE UNDERSTOOD AS HUMAN CAUSED AND IT CAN THEREFORE BE HUMAN CONTROLLED. WE SHOW IN RELATED POSTS ON THIS SITE THAT THIS ARGUMENT HAS NO EMPIRICAL VALIDITY.

THIS POST IS CRITICAL REVIEW OF REPORTS IN THE MEDIA THAT A POWERFUL AND UNDERAPPRECIATED ALLY IN THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS FUNGI.

LINK TO THE GUARDIAN ARTICLE: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/30/fungi-climate-crisis-ally

WHAT THE GUARDIAN ARTICLE SAYS

If we want to tackle the climate crisis, we need to address a global blindspot: the vast underground fungal networks that sequester carbon and sustain much of life on Earth. Fungi are largely invisible ecosystem engineers. Most live as branching, fusing networks of tubular cells known as mycelium. Globally, the total length of fungal mycelium in the top 10cm of soil is more than 450 quadrillion km: about half the width of our galaxy. These symbiotic networks comprise an ancient life-support system that easily qualifies as one of the wonders of the living world. Through fungal activity, carbon floods into the soil, where it supports intricate food webs – about 25% of all of the planet’s species live underground. Much of it remains in the soil, making underground ecosystems the stable store of 75% of all terrestrial carbon. But climate change strategies, conservation agendas and restoration efforts overlook fungi and focus overwhelmingly on above-ground ecosystems. This is a problem: the destruction of underground fungal networks accelerates both climate change and biodiversity loss and interrupts vital global nutrient cycles. These networks should be regarded as a global public good to be mapped, protected and restored as a matter of urgency. Fungi lie at the base of the food webs that support much of life on Earth. About 500m years ago, fungi facilitated the movement of aquatic plants on to land, fungal mycelium serving as plant root systems for tens of millions of years until plants could evolve their own. This association transformed the planet and its atmosphere – the evolution of plant-fungal partnerships coincided with a 90% reduction in the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Today, most plants depend on mycorrhizal fungi – from the Greek words for fungus (mykes) and root (rhiza) – which weave themselves through roots, provide plants with crucial nutrients, defend them from disease and link them in shared networks sometimes referred to as the “wood wide web”. These fungi are a more fundamental part of planthood than leaves, wood, fruit, flowers or even roots.We are destroying the planet’s fungal networks at an alarming rate. Based on current trends, more than 90% of the Earth’s soil will be degraded by 2050. Modern industries, from agriculture to forestry, have failed to take account of the life in the soil. Despite the fact that mycorrhizal fungi supply as much as 80% of a plant’s nutrients, intensive farming practices – through a combination of ploughing and application of chemical fertilisers, pesticides and fungicides – severely reduce the abundance, diversity and physical integrity of fungal networks. Logging wreaks havoc below ground, decreasing the abundance of mycorrhizal fungi by as much as 95%, and the diversity of fungal communities by as much as 75%. A large study published in 2018 suggested that the “alarming deterioration” of the health of trees across Europe was caused by a disruption of their mycorrhizal relationships, brought about by nitrogen pollution from fossil fuel combustion and agricultural fertiliser. Mycorrhizal fungal networks make up between a third and a half of the living mass of soils and are a major global carbon sink. When we destroy them, we sabotage our efforts to limit global heating. Plants supply carbon to their fungal partners in exchange for nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus – much of the phosphorus that makes up the DNA in your own body will have passed through a mycorrhizal fungus. In their exchange, plants and fungi engage in sophisticated trading strategies, striking compromises and resolving dizzyingly complex trade-offs. The influence of these quadrillions of microscopic trading decisions spills out over whole continents. Globally, at least 5bn tons of carbon dioxide are sequestered within mycorrhizal networks each year, a quantity roughly equivalent to the amount of carbon dioxide emitted annually by the US. Even small reductions in the prevalence of fungal networks have significant consequences: a release of just 0.1% of the carbon now stored in Europe’s soils is equal to the annual emissions from 100m cars. Mycorrhizal fungi are keystone organisms that support planetary biodiversity; when we disrupt them, we jeopardise the health and resilience of the organisms on which we depend. Fungal networks form a sticky living seam that holds soil together; remove the fungi, and the ground washes away. Mycorrhizal networks increase the volume of water that the soil can absorb, reducing the quantity of nutrients leached out of the soil by rainfall by as much as 50%. They make plants less susceptible to drought and more resistant to salinity and heavy metals. They even boost the ability of plants to fight off attacks from pests by stimulating the production of defensive chemicals. The current focus on aboveground biodiversity neglects more than half of the most biodiverse underground ecosystems, because areas with the highest biodiversity aboveground are not always those with the highest soil biodiversity. Mycorrhizal fungal networks and the nutrient flows and processes they manage should be considered a global public good, analogous to clean air and water. For millennia in many parts of the world, traditional farming and land management practices have attended to the health of the soil and thus supported plants’ fungal relationships implicitly. But over the course of the 20th century, our behaviour has led us into trouble. Organisations like the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (Spun), the Fungi Foundation and GlobalFungi are advocating for soil ecosystems, and leading a massive global sampling effort to create open-source maps of Earth’s fungal networks. These maps will help chart the properties of underground ecosystems, such as carbon sequestration hotspots, and document new fungal species able to withstand drought and high temperatures. Researchers will be able to track the distribution of fungal networks as they shift in response to changing climates and patterns of land use, much as they already do for global vegetation, climates and ocean currents. A deeper knowledge of these dynamic living systems will support conservation projects and policies that aim to halt their destruction and encourage their recovery, besides driving much-needed innovation in underground ecosystem science and technology. Mycorrhizal fungal networks have long sustained and enriched life on our planet. It’s time they receive the attention they deserve. Toby Kiers is professor of evolutionary biology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and co-founder of the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (Spun) Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and the author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures.

CRITICAL COMMENTARY

ITEM#1: IT IS CLAIMED THAT, “For millennia in many parts of the world, traditional farming and land management practices have attended to the health of the soil and thus supported plants’ fungal relationships implicitly. But over the course of the 20th century, our behaviour has led us into trouble“

THE ASSUMPTION HERE IS THAT THERE WAS NO GLOBAL WARMING FOR MILLENNIA PRECEDING THE 20TH CENTURY BUT THAT IT WAS THE 20TH CENTURY THAT BAD FUNGAL MANAGEMENT AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION GOT THE GLOBAL WARMING THING STARTED. THIS ASSUMPTION IS FALSE BECAUSE FOR MANY MILLENNIA, IN FACT SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE HOLOCENE INTERGLACIAL, WE HAVE HAD MANY GLOBAL WARMING CYCLES AT MILLENNIAL AND CENTENNIAL TIME SCALES. DETAILS IN A RELATED POST: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/11/18/chaotic-interglacial-temperatures/ THESE DATA IMPLY THAT EVEN THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO WHEN THE FUNGAL ECOSYSTEM WAS SAFE FROM HUMAN INTERFERENCE AND WHEN THE ATMOSPHERE WAS SAFE FROM FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS, WE HAD GLOBAL WARMING ANYWAY AND ALL THAT STRONG AND HEALTHY FUNGAL ECOSYSTEMS DID NOT TAKE THE CLIMATE ACTION THAT THEY ARE APPARENTLY CAPABLE OF.

CRITICAL COMMENTARY

ITEM#2: IN ANOTHER RELATED POST: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/06/19/vegandiet/ WE FIND A NASA CLIMATE SCIENTIST EXPLAINING THE CLIMATE SCIENCE POSITION ON THE IDEA OF CARBON CYCLE INTERVENTIONS AS CLIMATE ACTION WHERE HE EXPLAINS THAT THE THEORY OF ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING IS NOT A CARBON CYCLE ISSUE AND CLIMATE ACTION IS NOT A CARBON CYCLE INTERVENTION ISSUE BUT THAT THIS THEORY IS VERY SPECIFIC TO FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS BECAUSE THIS CARBON IS EXTERNAL TO THE CARBON CYCLE. THEREFORE HOW HUMANS TREAT FUNGUS IS NOT A CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUE NOR A CLIMATE ACTION ISSUE.

To summarize this excellent lecture:  What Dr Griffith has explained so well is an important feature of AGW climate change theory that is not well understood and/or often overlooked in the consideration of climate action policies. Anthropogenic global warming is NOT a theory that carbon dioxide emissions in general and from all sources increase atmospheric CO2 and therefore the temperature. It is a theory specific to the impact of the industrial economy that dug up fossil fuels loaded with carbon from carbon cycles that are millions of years old. This is EXTERNAL CARBON. It is not part of the current account of the carbon cycle. The essence of the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is that external carbon from very old carbon cycles in fossil fuel emissions cause warming by increasing atmospheric CO2 levels and that therefore the amount of warming can be attenuated by reducing fossil fuel emissions (Hansen, 1981) (Meinshausen, 2009) (Stocker, 2013) (Callendar, 1938) (Revelle, 1957) (Lacis, 2010) (Hansen, 2016) (IPCC, 2000) (IPCC, 2014). At the root of the proposed AGW causation chain is the ability of fossil fuel emissions to cause measurable changes in atmospheric CO2 levels in excess of natural variability because very old external carbon in fossil fuel emissions is a perturbation of the current account of the carbon cycle. AGW climate change theory is specific to the impact of the industrial economy in terms of its use of fossil fuels. Specifically carbon cycle flows are not a factor in the theory of anthropogenic global warming or in the design of climate action policies needed to attenuate anthropogenic global warming. So for example, respiration emissions are not a factor in the AGW equation. This important detail has been overlooked by climate activists who have not studied the theory well or forgotten these details, or are unaware of these details of the theory of anthropogenic global warming. The theory of anthropogenic global warming is specific to the industrial revolution and the industrial economy in terms of the combustion of fossil fuels. 

CONCLUSION

WHETHER OR HOW WE TAKE CARE OF THE FUNGUS IS NOT A CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUE

THIS POST IS A REVIEW OF A PUBLICATION THAT USES ANCIENT CLIMATE CHANGE AS FEAR APPEAL ACTIVISM FOR CLIMATE ACTION.

LINK: https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/chinese-civilisation-liangzhu-climate-change-b1965819.html

<img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/2021/11/29/07/Low-Res_shennong_cave_credit_Haiwei-Zhang.JPG.png?width=982&height=726&auto=webp&quality=75&quot; alt="<p>Stalagmites in caves located southwest of the excavation site show a climatic cause for the collapse of the ancient Chinese Liangzhu culture

THE ARTICLE SAYS THAT THERE WAS GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE 4,300 YEARS AGO THAT HAD CAUSED THE COLLAPSE OF THE LIANGAHU CIVILIZATION IN CHINA AND THAT THIS SHOULD SERVE AS EVIDENCE OF THE HORROR OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE URGENT NEED FOR CLIMATE ACTION.

RESPONSE

4,300 YEARS AGO PUTS US INTO THE LATE BRONZE AGE COLLAPSE WHEN AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE HAD DEVASTATED AGRICULTURE ACROSS A LARGE SECTION OF THE GLOBE THAT INCLUDED EGYPT, THE MIDDLE EAST AND PARTS OF INDIA, AS WELL AS CHINA. THE DEVASTATION OF THE LATE BRONZE AGE COLLAPSE AND ITS GLOBAL IMPACTS SERVE AS A CAUTIONARY TALE AGAINST THE THE CLIMATE DENIAL POSITION THAT GLOBAL WARMING CAN’T BE ALL THAT BAD. DETAILS OF THE LATE BRONZE AGE COLLAPSE AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY ARE PROVIDED IN A RELATED POST. https://tambonthongchai.com/2018/08/16/collapse/

THERE ARE OTHER EXAMPLES OF EXTENSIVE IMPACTS OF GLOBAL WARMING THROUGHOUT THE HOLOCENE BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE. FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE FIRST WARMING CYCLE OF THE HOLOCENE, KNOWN AS THE HOLOCENE CLIMATE OPTIMUM, A SUSTAINED PERIOD OF GLOBAL WARMING HAD LED TO THE INVENTION OF AGRICULTURE AND THAT IN TURN LED TO THE CREATION OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION IN WHAT IS CALLED THE NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/06/27/modern-humans-climate-change/ . HOWEVER, MANY OF THE GLOBAL WARMING CYCLES OF THE HOLOCENE, INCLUDING THE LATE BRONZE AGE WARMING, HAVE HAD DIRE CONSEQUENCES AND THE COLLAPSE OF CIVILIZATION AS DESCRIBED IN ANOTHER RELATED LOST: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/10/05/a-quora-question-3/

THE RELEVANT ISSUE RAISED BY THE “ANCIENT CLIMATE CHANGE” ARTICLE CITED ABOVE IS THAT GLOBAL WARMING CYCLES OF THE HOLOCENE ARE NORMAL AND NATURAL AND THAT THEREFORE, IN THIS CONTEXT, THE OCCURRENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING IN AN INTERGLACIAL DOES NOT REQUIRE HUMAN CAUSE TO EXPLAIN. THIS ISSUE IS DISCUSSED IN A RELATED POST LINKED BELOW.

LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/11/09/the-issue-is-human-cause/

HOWEVER, THE WHAT IS BEING IMPLIED IN THE REFERENCE ARTICLE IS THAT THE IMPACT OF THE GLOBAL WARMING OF THE LATE BRONZE AGE ON CHINA PROVIDES US WITH EVIDENCE OF THE HORRORS OF GLOBAL WARMING AND THE NEED FOR CLIMATE ACTION.

HERE WE PROPOSE, THAT WHAT THE ANCIENT CLIMATE CHANGE TELLS US IS THAT THERE ARE NATURAL GLOBAL WARMING CYCLES IN THE HOLOCENE AND THAT SOME OF THEM HAD SIGNIFICANT HARMFUL IMPACTS DOES NOT SERVE AS A CAUTIONARY TALE FOR CLIMATE ACTION. THAT DEMAND CAN BE MADE ONLY AFTER EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF HUMAN CAUSE HAS BEEN PRESENTED.

THE ANCIENT CLIMATE CHANGE EXAMPLE IMPLIES THAT THE CURRENT WARMING CAN’T BE ASSUMED TO BE HUMAN CAUSED AND THAT SIGNIFICANT EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FOR SUCH CAUSATION IS REQUIRED IN THE CONTEXT OF THE NATURAL ANCIENT CLIMATE CHANGE EXAMPLE.

RELATED POST: THE ONLY ISSUE IS HUMAN CAUSE: LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/11/09/the-issue-is-human-cause/

EXCERPT

LINK TO SOURCE CNN ARTICLE: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/30/climate-change-and-geopolitical-instability-11-high-risk-countries.html

THE CNN ARTICLE LINKED ABOVE, LIKE ALL SUCH ARTICLES, PROPOSES THAT WE THE GLOBAL NORTH NEED TO TAKE CLIMATE ACTION BECAUSE THE CLIMATE IS HURTING THE PITIFUL THIRD WORLD IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH THE MOST AND IT’S ALL “OUR FAULT” MEANING THE GLOBAL NORTH. AND THIS IS WHY WE NEED TO TAKE CLIMATE ACTION.

AS IN THE OLD COLONIAL DAYS, THE GLOBAL SOUTH MUST ULTIMATELY SERVE THE NEEDS OF THE GLOBAL NORTH AND RIGHT NOW THEIR NEEDS ARE A DESPERATE PLEA TO END THE USE OF FOSSIL FUELS PRESENTED WITHOUT EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE THAT IT IS SOMETHING THAT WILL END THE RISE IN GLOBAL MEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND SAVE HUMANITY AND THE PLANET ITSELF FROM THE HELLISH CONSEQUENCES OF CONTINUED GLOBAL WARMING PROJECTED BY CLIMATE SCIENCE.

THE NEED FOR THIS ARGUMENT AGAINST FOSSIL FUELS AND IN SUPPORT OF CLIMATE ACTION ARISES BECAUSE CLIMATE SCIENCE HAS FAILED TO PROVIDE THE NEEDED EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE THAT THE CURRENT WARMING CYCLE OF THE HOLOCENE IS HUMAN CAUSED. THE ARGUMENT THAT IT MUST BE A CASE OF HUMAN CAUSE BECAUSE IT WAS PRECEDED BY THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION DOES NOT CONSTITUTE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE.

BOTTOM LINE

THE ONLY ISSUE IN THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT IS HUMAN CAUSE AND THIS IS THE ISSUE IN THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT THAT HAS NO EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT IT.

FOR DETAILS PLEASE SEE:

LINK: https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/11/09/the-issue-is-human-cause/

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