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Eric Brooks's avatar

Brother, this is just nonsense. Most of your 'facts' are not correct (and look like they came from right wing and fossil fuel industry funded media). And you seem to have no understanding whatsoever of the Greenhouse Effect - which was discovered in 1824. Here's how it works:

CO2 easily allows in full spectrum light, arriving from the Sun in small, tight bandwidths which collide *less* with relatively spacious CO2 molecules. That light heats the Earth. The heat then radiates upward as larger bandwidth *infrared* light that bounces back down more readily off the CO2 (because larger bandwidth light hits the CO2 molecules more often). This increases heating of the atmosphere, ground, & water.

When there is too much CO2, (as there is now because of unprecedented industrial animal agriculture and fossil fuel burning) that trapped heat keeps increasing, and does not stop increasing. When such CO2-driven heating happens quickly enough (as happened during the Permian Extinction 250 million years ago due to massive CO2-releasing Siberian volcanic eruptions) that situation triggers cascading feedback loops (like the loss of reflective ice and snow at the poles) which make the heating even faster and higher. And at the same time the skyrocketing CO2 rapidly makes all water bodies and oceans far more acid than the life in them is accustomed to.

The heat combined with the acid causes huge collapses in the biosphere. This causes animals and plants to die in huge numbers, and that releases even *more* CO2, even faster. The widespread death of plant life also drives deforestation and soil runoff which loads water bodies and oceans with excess nutrients, and that heavy nutrient load combines with the higher heat and acidity to generate worldwide deadly toxic algae blooms. During the Permian this deadly heat/acid/algae-bloom combination and its feedback loops caused 95% of all life to go extinct.

Humans are now raising temperature, CO2, ocean acidity, deforestation, and water body nutrient load on Earth 10 to 100 times *faster* than during the Permian Extinction. It is the *speed* of change, of these combined factors, that is the danger.

In at least one case in our solar system, on Venus (the planet most like ours in size and distance from the Sun) the Greenhouse Effect caused a runaway heating so bad that it turned Venus into an anvil. It became the hottest place in the solar system besides the Sun - and this wiped out any life, or hope for life, arising there.

This was all understood long before modern day grifters like Gates, Soros, Al Gore, and the World Economic Forum started using their billions to coopt and manipulate the climate response and steer it in wrong directions that would make it impotent, and would trick people like you into doubting the actual, legitimate, climate danger, as well as the legitimate movement to reverse that danger which still exists and is doing crucial work (especially in my home state of California, where I am one of the activists in that movement).

I, and other activists and scientists, were warning people about all of this 40 years ago, long before the 21st century 'Green Grift' started happening.

Here is the link to an essay I wrote comparing our current crisis with the Permian Extinction:

"Nature Is Giving Humanity Our Final Extinction Crisis Warning"

https://ericbrooks.substack.com/p/nature-is-giving-humanity-our-final

In the months since I wrote that essay, 100s of dead sea lions & dolphins have appeared on California beaches due to an unprecedented offshore algae bloom, signaling a possible mass ocean die off. Here's NOAA's report on the sea lion & dolphin deaths.

https://fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/toxic-algal-bloom-suspected-dolphin-and-sea-lion-deaths-southern-california

The joint climate/extinction crisis is real, and if we all don't rapidly wake the hell up and do something about it, we are fucked.

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Rachel's avatar

No working class present, no surprise there.

But ouch on the climate change.

It's expected that normal people don't trust the news or the explanations proffered by the media. There ARE conspiracies at play. But sometimes I think that the conspiracy is more a lack of action followed by a cover up, rather than a deliberate act.

Take Maui. Suspicious actions that point towards a conspiracy include: 1) power company doesn't fix equipment likely to fail, 2) withholding water to fight the fire, 3) local police directing traffic AWAY from the only route to safety (presumably due to downed power lines on the route to safety) and 4) no government assistance for 12 hours after the start of inferno.

All four of these are evil, and in a fair and just society would be outrageous and decried as such in ALL media.

But when people start saying that lasers started the fire or that humans aren't responsible for climate change, the entire conspiracy argument is trashed. The biggest threat to leftist movements that undercover conspiracies are totally bizarre, improbable conspiracies.

Loose Change, a 9/11 conspiracy film, did more to destroy the argument of those of us who believe the US government was complicit in 9/11 than anything else. Our government often corrupts movements by inserting people with wacky, ridiculous arguments. Normal people see these wacky arguments then discount any notion of a conspiracy.

I have no doubt that a conspiracy killed those people in Lahaina. But I'll take a hard pass on lasers and climate change denial arguments.

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