Children are very vulnerable, because of limited life experience. They inherently trust their parents, teachers, and other adults who may not live up to that trust. And their desire to be accepted by others is too often an invitation to risky behavior, involving alcohol, drugs, sex, radical ideas, and fear. In a word, they are easily exploited.
Those who want to recruit children to their causes are acutely aware of this and have no qualms about exploiting them. There are many forms of child abuse. Manipulating with fear is among the worst. Once children think that they have no future and no hope, they are willing to follow those who promise them a way out.
The explosion of harmful racial, sexual, and political ideas in a young population that has been denied access to positive social interactions should alarm every adult. COVID lockdowns and closing of schools has started an unraveling of our society, especially among the young. Children have lost almost two years of education and socialization, and replaced the loss with dangerous ideas from unscrupulous adults. Those girls we once called “tomboys” and those boys who seem too sensitive and feminine do not need hormones and sex changes. They just need to grow up normally.
What about the children who are filled with adult propaganda and never taught to think for themselves? Do they become fanatics whose only interest is to destroy the society that they never learned to appreciate? I am afraid so.
A recent Harris poll of 1500 teenagers (13 to 19 years old) found that 84% of them believe in “climate change,” and half think that their communities are not doing enough to combat “the problem.” 70% are fearful that their families will soon experience devastating floods, wildfires, heat, or other extreme weather events due to the burning of fossil fuels.
In other words, children have largely fallen for the climate hoax that is presented to them at every opportunity. They hear about it from their friends, from their teachers, and from the two trillion dollar per year climate industry. The industry desperately needs for the scam to continue. It is acutely aware that its very reason for existence will collapse overnight if people recognize the fraud.
Carbon dioxide is far from a pollutant. More is vastly beneficial to life on this planet by enhancing plant growth. CO2’s ability to warm the planet is so exaggerated as to be ridiculous. The warming we have observed since the Great Pacific Climate Shift of 1977 is most likely due to the Great Pacific Climate Shift, because our oceans contain the vast majority of mobile heat on this planet. But even if it were due to CO2, the small amount of warming has been very beneficial. Between the fertilizing effect of more CO2 and the warming, we are able to feed the seven billion people who call this planet home.
Newspapers specializing in climate propaganda, like The Oregonian, are forever promoting UNIPCC pronouncements as if they came from scientists and not a government agency. The “I” in UNIPCC stands for “Intergovernmental.” They did so on April 10, just as unusual cold and snow descended on the Portland area. “Its not too late to stop the progression of Earth’s too rapidly rising temperature,” they wrote. When they realized that would not fly in a world dominated by the cold phase of the El Nino/La Nina cycle, they followed their front page article with another saying this was all about “Extreme Weather.” Reporter, Kale Williams, specializes in extreme nonsense and went on to quote the new head of the alarmist Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University, Professor Erica Fleishman. We are supposed to believe that she is an expert on climate processes. But she is an ecologist, with no degrees in the physical sciences!
Has “Extreme Weather” become more likely of late? The Oregonian might be able to sell such rubbish to those too young or too uninformed to remember the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, when the greatest number of State record highs and record lows occurred. Even our monumental heatwave last year near the Summer Solstice did not break Oregon’s high temperature record of 119 F, set August 10, 1898 in Pendleton. Yes, almost 124 years ago.
Prior to our unusual April snow, The Oregonian published an Op-Ed from Angus Duncan, Oregon’s premier advocate for windmills, this time extolling the virtues of his electric SUV. He claimed to be able to charge it up for far less money than his son is able to fill his tiny Chevy with gasoline at today’s inflated prices. Angus forgot to tell us how much he paid for his new electric car. Was it $60,000 or perhaps $100,000? Does it have the range of the Chevy? How long does it take to recharge? Will he have to replace the battery far sooner than his son will have to replace the Chevy’s engine, at comparable cost? Angus did admit that he is recharging his car in Vancouver, Washington where the cost of electricity is lower, because they did not buy as many of the windmills he was selling!
Of course, children are not able to see through the flimflam that the Climate Cartel throws their way, because they are too trusting and immature to realize that adults are frequently driven by greed.
This is where those of us who have appropriate scientific training and no conflicts of interest need to help children escape from the clutches of the climate crowd. We need to help them understand that carbon dioxide is vastly beneficial.
I have written several short stories about carbon dioxide for children that are being illustrated in a comic book format by a very talented Brazilian artist. He and I work with a Brazilian PhD chemist to create entertaining and authoritative stories for children. The CO2 Coalition, where I am an unpaid director, is publishing the stories in both electronic and paper formats. Paper copies will be distributed at nominal cost, especially to teachers. Electronic versions of ‘Once Upon a Time’ are already available from Amazon and from the CO2 Coalition website at no cost:
The first story teaches children that ALL life on Earth comes from the tiny amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. At 400 parts per million, that is only 0.04%. We are carbon creatures who derive ALL of our carbon structure from plants that take carbon dioxide out of the air and release oxygen in the process. We burn some of the carbon for energy and exhale the resulting carbon dioxide to complete the carbon cycle. Hence, levels where people congregate can reach 1,000 ppm or more. Without CO2 in our atmosphere, there would be no life on this planet.
The second story, soon to be published, features ‘Simon, the Solar-Powered Cat.’ He gets all of his energy from the Sun, not by lounging in the Sun but by eating food produced by photosynthesis from carbon dioxide and water. Children learn that all other creatures are similarly solar-powered. Another story in production points out that Mother Nature is the world’s greatest recycler, because she recycles all life back to atmospheric CO2, from which new life then emerges.
The two trillion dollar per year climate industry wants to sell enough windmills to cover the entire planet at a million dollars or more per windmill. Children need to learn that covering the planet with a tiny bit more invisible carbon dioxide is vastly preferable for all life here. A greener world starts with more carbon dioxide, not with more windmills!
Gordon J. Fulks lives in Corbett and can be reached at gordonfulks@hotmail.com. He has a doctorate in physics from the University of Chicago’s Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research.
No Comments
Leave a comment Cancel