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Positive Impact of Human CO2 Emissions

Patrick Moore
Canada
2016
Frontier Centre For Public Policy
Very large healthy oxen on the Island of Chiloe Chile. If the world is forced to stop using fossil fuels transportation will be like this - carts with solid wooden wheels. No planes no trains no cargo and cruise ships no trucks no cars no busses no subways no e-bikes

Patrick Moore, Ph.D. in Ecology, founding member of Greenpeace, who turned realist. "I love nature and people are part of nature - all people and all living things. I believe in one human family. Environmentalism must be beyond nationalism, politics and ideology." 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 and hydrosphere.

I strongly disagree with Berry, Salby etc who claim human CO2 emissions are not the main cause of the rise in CO2 in the atmosphere. Our emissions are the only large new addition of CO2 on an annual basis, CO2 that was sequestered out of the active carbon cycle millions of years ago. No one has even attempted to refute my hypothesis , they simply ignore it because it destroys their narrative of climate catastrophe.