potholer54 | Was the climate 'better' during the age of the dinosaurs? (More climate “facts” bite the dust.) @potholer54 | Uploaded December 2023 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
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To support this channel, please don't send me money. I prefer people donate to a charity I support called Health in Harmony. See my video youtube.com/watch?v=j9-GRugP9pU for details.
The charity funds hospitals and affordable health care to villages on the edges of national parks, in return for a pledge not to cut down trees. The pledges are monitored, and the result has been a dramatic decrease in deforestation rates and an increase in the health of the local population.
Patients -- mostly from farming families -- can pay for their subsidised treatment with tree saplings or manure. So for them, treatment is essentially free.
The manure goes to organic farms that HiH is encouraging, as it teaches local farmers how to farm organically rather than slash-and-burn the forest.
As for the tree saplings, HiH volunteers plant these in areas of forest that have been illegally cut. This restores the forest, and HiH receives money for this from people and companies who pay for carbon credits. That money goes towards paying doctors, nurses, dentists, and and keeps the clinics running.
See also psmag.com/social-justice/save-the-trees-well-save-your-life-46121 for an explanation of their work.
And please donate here:
healthinharmony.org/donate-today
PLEASE NOTE: 1) The smoke you see in the photo of a cement plant is not CO2 (obviously.) The CO2 in the photo is invisible.
2) “Taking the mickey” means to make fun or treat someone like an idiot.
SOURCES
Ivor Cummins video
youtube.com/watch?v=wnjozntXnZ4&t=906s
CO2 coalition
thefatemperor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/25-Top-Climate-FACTS-CO2-from-Co2Coalition.org-resource.pdf
Library of Congress showing link between CO2 Coalition and George C. Marshall Inst.
loc.gov/item/lcwaN0002405
Marshall admission of funding by Exxon:
web.archive.org/web/20020913050409/marshall.org/funding.htm
Exxon annual donations:
web.archive.org/web/20150907045825/exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=36
CO2 at 180ppm acc Coalition:
co2coalition.org/facts/dangerously-low-co2-last-four-glacial-advances
(Taken from Historical Carbon Dioxide Record from the Vostok Ice Core (417,160 - 2,342 years BP – Barnola 2003))
Pleistoicene CO2 below 180ppm:
thefosterlab.org/mpt
CO2 levels during Permian from:
“CO2-Forced Climate and Vegetation Instability During Late Paleozoic Deglaciation” -- Montañez et al, 2006
CO2 levels during Permian
The Siberian Traps and the End-Permian mass extinction: A critical review – Saunders et al 2009
researchgate.net/figure/Estimated-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-levels-during-the-Permian-shown-as-parts-per_fig5_225378751
“could increase it to more than 2000 parts per million by volume (ppmv) as accessible fossil fuel reservoirs are exhausted (3).”
“CO2-Forced Climate and Vegetation Instability During Late Paleozoic Deglaciation” -- Montañez, 2007
“15 Pa (below Pleistocene minimum), 27 Pa (pre-industrial), 35 Pa (current) and 70 Pa (predicted future). After 35 days of growth, CO 2 had no effect on the relative growth rate, total biomass or partitioning of biomass in the C 4 species. However, the C 3 species had greater biomass accumulation with increasing CO 2 partial pressure.”
“Strain Effects of low and elevated CO 2 on C 3 and C 4 annuals”
Oecologia (1995) Dippery et al.
At a concentration of about 150 ppm or less, many plants die of CO2 starvation.
co2coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Carbon-Dioxide-Benefits-the-World-2.pdf
“Effects of low and elevated CO 2 on C 3 and C 4 annuals I1. Photosynthesis and leaf biochemistry” – Tissue et al 1995
“Plant responses to low [CO2] of the past”
Gerhart and ward 2010
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03441.x
Jurassic map from:
“A new marattiaceous fern from the Lower Jurassic of Patagonia (Argentina): The renaissance of Marattiopsis”
Escapa et al. 2014
“Palaeo-wildfires in the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) of Western and Central Europe – Palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental significance”
-- Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments Dieter Uhl 2012
Oxygen levels
Berner et al., 2007 sciencemag.org /content/316/5824/557.summary
Solar luminocity reconstruction:
environmental-geology-dev.pressbooks.tru.ca/chapter/changes-in-solar-output-and-in-the-earths-atmosphere
Carboniferous map:
“Carboniferous macrofloral biostratigraphy: an overview”
Oplustil et al 2021
Publication: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Oxygen levels from:
“Oxygen and Evolution” – Berner et al. 2007
science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1140273
See also:
Late Triassic and Early Jurassic palaeogeography of the world
Jan Golonka - 2007
Jurassic deserts:
"Earliest Jurassic U-Pb ages from carbonate deposits in the Navajo Sandstone, southeastern Utah, USA" - Parrish 2019
DONATIONS:
To support this channel, please don't send me money. I prefer people donate to a charity I support called Health in Harmony. See my video youtube.com/watch?v=j9-GRugP9pU for details.
The charity funds hospitals and affordable health care to villages on the edges of national parks, in return for a pledge not to cut down trees. The pledges are monitored, and the result has been a dramatic decrease in deforestation rates and an increase in the health of the local population.
Patients -- mostly from farming families -- can pay for their subsidised treatment with tree saplings or manure. So for them, treatment is essentially free.
The manure goes to organic farms that HiH is encouraging, as it teaches local farmers how to farm organically rather than slash-and-burn the forest.
As for the tree saplings, HiH volunteers plant these in areas of forest that have been illegally cut. This restores the forest, and HiH receives money for this from people and companies who pay for carbon credits. That money goes towards paying doctors, nurses, dentists, and and keeps the clinics running.
See also psmag.com/social-justice/save-the-trees-well-save-your-life-46121 for an explanation of their work.
And please donate here:
healthinharmony.org/donate-today
PLEASE NOTE: 1) The smoke you see in the photo of a cement plant is not CO2 (obviously.) The CO2 in the photo is invisible.
2) “Taking the mickey” means to make fun or treat someone like an idiot.
SOURCES
Ivor Cummins video
youtube.com/watch?v=wnjozntXnZ4&t=906s
CO2 coalition
thefatemperor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/25-Top-Climate-FACTS-CO2-from-Co2Coalition.org-resource.pdf
Library of Congress showing link between CO2 Coalition and George C. Marshall Inst.
loc.gov/item/lcwaN0002405
Marshall admission of funding by Exxon:
web.archive.org/web/20020913050409/marshall.org/funding.htm
Exxon annual donations:
web.archive.org/web/20150907045825/exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=36
CO2 at 180ppm acc Coalition:
co2coalition.org/facts/dangerously-low-co2-last-four-glacial-advances
(Taken from Historical Carbon Dioxide Record from the Vostok Ice Core (417,160 - 2,342 years BP – Barnola 2003))
Pleistoicene CO2 below 180ppm:
thefosterlab.org/mpt
CO2 levels during Permian from:
“CO2-Forced Climate and Vegetation Instability During Late Paleozoic Deglaciation” -- Montañez et al, 2006
CO2 levels during Permian
The Siberian Traps and the End-Permian mass extinction: A critical review – Saunders et al 2009
researchgate.net/figure/Estimated-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-levels-during-the-Permian-shown-as-parts-per_fig5_225378751
“could increase it to more than 2000 parts per million by volume (ppmv) as accessible fossil fuel reservoirs are exhausted (3).”
“CO2-Forced Climate and Vegetation Instability During Late Paleozoic Deglaciation” -- Montañez, 2007
“15 Pa (below Pleistocene minimum), 27 Pa (pre-industrial), 35 Pa (current) and 70 Pa (predicted future). After 35 days of growth, CO 2 had no effect on the relative growth rate, total biomass or partitioning of biomass in the C 4 species. However, the C 3 species had greater biomass accumulation with increasing CO 2 partial pressure.”
“Strain Effects of low and elevated CO 2 on C 3 and C 4 annuals”
Oecologia (1995) Dippery et al.
At a concentration of about 150 ppm or less, many plants die of CO2 starvation.
co2coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Carbon-Dioxide-Benefits-the-World-2.pdf
“Effects of low and elevated CO 2 on C 3 and C 4 annuals I1. Photosynthesis and leaf biochemistry” – Tissue et al 1995
“Plant responses to low [CO2] of the past”
Gerhart and ward 2010
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03441.x
Jurassic map from:
“A new marattiaceous fern from the Lower Jurassic of Patagonia (Argentina): The renaissance of Marattiopsis”
Escapa et al. 2014
“Palaeo-wildfires in the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) of Western and Central Europe – Palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental significance”
-- Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments Dieter Uhl 2012
Oxygen levels
Berner et al., 2007 sciencemag.org /content/316/5824/557.summary
Solar luminocity reconstruction:
environmental-geology-dev.pressbooks.tru.ca/chapter/changes-in-solar-output-and-in-the-earths-atmosphere
Carboniferous map:
“Carboniferous macrofloral biostratigraphy: an overview”
Oplustil et al 2021
Publication: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Oxygen levels from:
“Oxygen and Evolution” – Berner et al. 2007
science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1140273
See also:
Late Triassic and Early Jurassic palaeogeography of the world
Jan Golonka - 2007
Jurassic deserts:
"Earliest Jurassic U-Pb ages from carbonate deposits in the Navajo Sandstone, southeastern Utah, USA" - Parrish 2019
