We are built almost entirely out of carbon dioxide and water. So is all the food we eat. Likewise for all the energy we use moving about and staying alive. Carbon dioxide and water! In short the carbon dioxide in the air is the global food supply. This is why all life on Earth is said to be “carbon based”. The climate alarmists play a tricky word game here. They call carbon dioxide “pollution” and wind and solar power “clean.” Our food supply is not pollution. Nor is emitting carbon dioxide unclean. (which we all do when we exhale by the way) This is all just false advertising or fake news if you will. Watching a child grow is watching processed carbon dioxide be reprocessed. Here is how it works. Plants collect carbon dioxide from the air then use sunlight and water to create the stuff they consume to build their bodies and to live on. They also use tiny amounts of vitamins and minerals, just as we do. Fertilizer is like vitamins, not like food. So almost all of what they use is carbon dioxide and water. Animals eat the plants for food, basically reprocessing the carbon dioxide and water. Then we eat both plants and animals. There is a saying that you cannot live on air but in fact that is just what we do. All of our food begins as airborne (or waterborne) carbon dioxide. Our farmers are literally farming the air! Go into a grocery store and look around. All the food you see — vegetables, fruit and meat — fresh, frozen or canned — is processed carbon dioxide. So are the people shopping there. So are you. The climate scare is based on the fact that the amount of carbon dioxide in the air has been slowly increasing for the last hundred years or so. That this might cause a tiny bit of global warming is really not a problem. The good news is that plant productivity is increasing around the world as a direct result of the increasing carbon dioxide. This is called the “greening” of planet Earth and it has been clearly observed by NASA satellites. So the global food supply of carbon dioxide has been steadily increasing. This helps explain how we are able to feed our growing human population. Crop yields have consistently increased even though the amount of farm land has actually gone down. The actual process is a miracle. Plants are passive consumers. They sit there and wait for carbon dioxide molecules to bump into them, where they are then combined with water and sunlight to make the plant’s food. Carbon dioxide is called a trace gas because there is very little of it as a fraction of the air. A hundred years ago it is estimated that there was something like one carbon dioxide molecule out of every 3,000 air molecules. Today it is more like one out of 2,500 which is a big help to the passive plants. Note that this increase in global plant growth due to increasing carbon dioxide is incorrectly called the “fertilization effect”. It should be called the food effect. Imagine putting on a table everything you will eat in a day. Next to that put a vitamin pill. Fertilizer is like the pill while carbon dioxide is like the pile of food. Also the carbon dioxide is not there because of our burning gasoline, diesel, natural gas, oil and coal. It is part of a natural “carbon cycle” that is twenty times bigger than our emissions. Life on Earth is part of and depends on this natural carbon cycle. Our carbon dioxide just adds a little bit to it, which is a good thing. Unfortunately you will seldom, if ever, hear any of this, because of climate change hysteria. Carbon dioxide is called dangerous pollution, when it is actually the stuff of life. The increase is decried as bad when it is actually good. The alarmists want to stop the increase or even reverse it, ignoring that this is the global food supply. As a carbon based life form we should be leery of calls for “decarbonization”. Likewise calling wind and solar power “clean energy” just because they do not create carbon dioxide is false, bordering on a hoax. There is nothing unclean about carbon dioxide. It is our food. We should be very thankful that carbon dioxide is increasing, not demonizing it. We are all made of carbon dioxide. The Sun Bay Paper Page 8 February 18, 2022 - February 24, 2022 Letters To The Editor Guest Editorial To the Editor, We retired here to Bonita Springs 6 years ago, we love your paper, my late husband, David read it from cover to cover! The stories and letters to the editor would have him laughing, thoughtful or pissed off! He was a true cowboy conservative and a steward of the land. His nephew was here with him the three weeks we had him home in hospice. He got hooked on your paper, so please send the remainder of David's subscription over to Mathew. Patti Luanne Duke Ed. Note: Sorry for your loss Patti Luanne, we will continue to send the remaining 6 months of David’s subscription to you and we will start a new 1 year subscription for Mathew. Thanks for your and David’s support for these past years! ‘ZEN’ Quote of the Week “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair To the Editor, I have always said the best way to listen is to "keep your mouth shut." In your case I've changed my mind. Those like yourself with a good platform and common sense must be heard. Thank you and your staff for what you do. I am very proud of your efforts. Terri Smith-Johnson Ed. Note: Thank You Terri, these days it’s just me and my better half, Jennifer, here in the (home) office, we can thank Covid for that, we also appreciate all our contributors, writers and last but not least.... our driver, Kimberly. PHONE: (239) 267-4000 MAIL: 16970 San Carlos Blvd. #160, Ft Myers, Fl 33908 E-MAIL: production@sunbaypaper.com WEBSITE & DIGITAL VERSION: http://www.sunbaypaper.com The Sun Bay Paper Dear Editor, I have had and still have various dicsussions with collegues and friends about things I read in your paper and I often get called a conspircy theorist! BUT Everything that was called a conspiracy theory last year about Covid restrictions and forced vaccinations and vaccine passes to be able to leave your home and take public transportation and buy food and gasoline and eat in restaurants and work, and get medical care, etc., has all come to pass.. It would seem, the difference between our conspiracy theories and other media’s headline news is about 6-12 months. Isiac Southers Ed. Note: Main stream media and the far left has embraced “The Illusion of Truth Effect” it is the tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeated exposure... that is why you hear the exact same ‘verbage’ on different TV stations when a storyline breaks changing the narrative, Please see page 11 for “Truth” Crossword Question! We have added a crossword puzzle to our pages, do you want to continue to see it or do you not really care about corosswords? Please let us know! Send your input to: Production@sunbaypaper.com To the Editor, If you believe that elections are above board, untainted by fraud, then it’s very true that your vote has consequences. Canadians didn’t have Trudeau just a few years back; we had a more sensible and somewhat conservative government until ‘they’ voted them out. (I didn’t vote for current admin.) Ditto the USA, although there, we now have grave doubts/concerns about your voting system. We both get to vote again soon. It’s sad that we are usually reduced to voting for the least worse alternative. Lets all pray for better choices! Our Governments have failed us on the two major challenges of recent times – energy and pandemic management. Trudeau mistakenly thought that the majority of people had converted to his brand of socialist wokism and that he could bully the remaining freedom-seeking non-conformers for political purpose. In setting out to make these people the common enemy, he made himself the common enemy. It’s great when karma bites back. Marie-Claude Gagnon Canadian, Sesonal Resident, North Fort Myers
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