All you need to know about carbon dioxide

Study the picture below…



This picture represents the volume of earth’s atmosphere. The last square on the lower right represents the volume of all the green house gases in earth’s atmosphere. The yellow section represents all of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The red dot shows how much carbon dioxide humans are responsible for.

Since carbon dioxide is a trace gas measured in part per million, it’s hard to notice it on an actual scale. Here is a blowup of the green house gas percentage so you can see how insignificant it is:



Look at that red dot and think about all the lies you have heard about the climate. Increasing carbon dioxide causes global warming - LIE. Increasing carbon dioxide causes more severe weather such as tornados, floods, droughts, and hurricanes - LIE. Increasing temperatures will cause famines and global catastrophe – LIE. Global warming may go down as the greatest hoax that was ever perpetrated on earth. The lies are unraveling so fast around the world that it is hard to keep up with who is involved and what deception they spread. The liars are running away from climate change so fast they are leaving whirlwinds in their paths.

Here is a list of what has come to light in the last couple of months:

-The Russian Institute of Economic Analysis asserted that the British Meteorological Office only used data from 25 percent of meteorological stations; the stations with the warmest data.

-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration monitored around 5,000 climate stations around the world until 1990. After 1990, NOAA eliminated the data from over 3,000 of these stations, eliminating stations at higher latitudes and altitudes; in other words, the cooler stations.

-IPCC lied about the link between increased natural disasters and global warming (there is no link) using papers that were flawed and not peer reviewed.

-IPCC lied about Himalayan glaciers melting going so far as to admit this year that they thought the false data would encourage policy makers to take action.

-IPCC lied about Amazon Rainforest decline based on flawed and non-peer reviewed papers.

-NASA claimed that 1998 was the warmest year on record, then changed it to 1934 after facing scrutiny over their data. They then made the claim that 1998 and 2006 were the warmest years on record. So far, NASA has refused all Freedom of Information requests to see the data.

-Phil Jones, head of the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, the main source of data for the IPCC reports and the primary source of climate hysteria, admitted last week that there has been no climate warming for the last 15 years.

-Phil Jones and the staff at CRU claim that they have lost or been careless with the data that they used for the IPCC reports; preventing other scientists from validating their work.

-Phil Jones, Keith Briffa, and Michael Mann, all leading instigators in the global warming hoax, were revealed to be destroying and hiding data to cover their lies when the Climate Gate Emails came to light.

The bottom line is that anyone with a basic understanding of the scientific process and statistics could have looked at the two pictures above and understood immediately that global warming could not be caused by emissions from cars and factories. The general public bought into the ideas of man-caused climate change hook, line, and sinker. Now, billions of dollars have been thrown away on the fear of climate change and kids are being taught the same lies as part of their education.

Even as the walls of climate change hype are falling down all around them, the EPA is continuing its foolish stance on regulating carbon dioxide, and senators are still moving forward with the cap and trade tax. The president maintains that the science of man-made climate change is sound; even though the data is suspect, the process has been shown to be flawed, and a conspiracy to manipulate the science has been revealed. The president, the EPA, and everyone who wants to believe in man-made climate change are the real deniers now.

Mushrooms

I have the unique opportunity of teaching workshops for continuing education credits as part of my job. While they are usually related to forestry, once in a while I do something out of the box just for something different. I gave our staff survival skills training on one occasion. This time we are going to learn everything we need to grow shiitake mushrooms in the woods.


I already enjoy cooking and eating fresh mushrooms, mostly the boring button mushrooms readily found at the grocery store. Although I have been eating morels from the woods for the last several years. Here’s a great picture of one. I find that morels taste best dipped in corn meal and fried in light oil.

While researching for this staff training, I learned that mushrooms are fungi. We get some of our best food with the help of fungi. Blue cheese and brie are flavored from fungi. Cacao beans must be fermented with fungi to destroy the bitter flavor they have naturally before being processed into chocolate. Yeasts used in beer and bread are a type of fungi. By the way, the alcohol in beer is made from microbial pee. The yeast eats the sugar and pees out alcohol. The holes and texture in bread are made from microbial farts! That is how yeast causes bread to rise.

Getting back to shiitake mushrooms, they are nutty and garlicky and really meaty compared to white mushrooms. You can order the spawn in the form of wooden dowel rods and drive them into holes drilled into an oak log. Corn and beans come from seeds, mushrooms come from spawn or spores. Six months to a year later, you have mushrooms. And a 3 or 4 foot log can produce mushrooms for several years in the right growing conditions.

I am planning on trying to grow some myself, so I’ll post again at some point with pictures and advice. You can read up in the meantime at UK Extension here.

Camp Calomine

Here is a cartoon that I really enjoy. I have never seen it in print, but I appreciate the conservative tone and the camp setting. You can view more at the Camp Calomine website here. Below are a few of my favorites. Click on each one for a larger image.

Wood Is Green

I have been amazed at the number of people who call themselves environmentalists and know nearly nothing about the environment itself. Their gullible nature, when it comes to nature, leaves them vulnerable to the whims and lies spread by supposed environmental groups who are always on the prowl for tragedies to profit from.

Environmental groups have spread the message that wood is not good, that wood products are not sustainable, that somehow using them kills forests and ruins livelihoods in tropical countries. They have attacked tree farms as a wicked and destructive pastime, and referred to pine plantations as biological deserts. Yet, these same groups have never attacked landowners of cornfields, wheat fields, or strawberry farms, or apple orchards. These “biological deserts” as environmental groups would refer to them, cover millions of acres.

I suppose the need for food has prevented them from profiting by attacking farms and produce. But environmental groups have profited enormously by attacking people who grow trees instead of corn. These same groups have even convinced the public that concrete, steel, and glass are more environmentally sustainable than growing trees. I like many products that are made from concrete and steel, but I have to draw the line when outrageous claims are made about their “green” superiority. It takes a lot of electricity, and therefore a lot of coal, to recycle glass and aluminum and to process iron ore for steel. Using guidelines set by environmentalists themselves, glass, steel, and aluminum are not green, especially if recycled. Here is what “green” looks like if you want to promote glass, aluminum and steel:

Contrast the picture above with this “biological desert” below:

Once something is mined, it is gone and that is why they call it non-renewable. Trees and plants are renewable resources. You can grow them again and again, just like corn. While you are waiting for your tree crop to mature, you can hunt, hike, and enjoy all the benefits that forests bring to life. Trees help clean the air and water, provide habitat for animals and recreation for humans. They can then be harvested and turned into useful things for people (see what trees provide here) and then you can plan another forest, or let nature do it for you in the case of hardwoods.

Fortunately, there are groups who know better and can see through this madness. Wood has a great story to tell and the folks at Wood Is Green are trying to get that message out. If you are not building with wood, you are not being green. Check out their website and help get the message out. They are just getting started, but something tells me this message will resonate loud and clear all around the planet.