The VENT

A new paper summarizes a lot of discussion and comes to the conclusion that the accumulation of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere has caused only one notable thing, increased plant growth which has in turn increased biological density and diversity.

Since reducing CO2 will not necessarily reduce our environmental footprint, we are left with two proven methods.  Prosperity in the Western World where the sociological tie between child rearing and wealth are broken and children economically become a luxury, or the ‘one child per family’ policy of China’s.  We won’t talk about the next step where there is economic collapse after birth rates have dropped as in Russia ….

That reminds me of the Russian Scientist that said it is not AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) we need to worry about but another ‘mini ice age’.  Looking through data from the last decade, the Russian Scientist believes the sun’s output will bottom at 2041 and the Earth will hit the bottom of this period at 2055 to 2060 (delayed due to oceans) and the world needs to prepare for it because it will affect 80% of the Earth’s population.  He expects this ‘deep cooling’ period will last several decades.

I guess we’ll see in the next few years as NASA declared the start to the next Sunspot Cycle.  Until that works it’s way through the system (Earth’s Climate) I guess we can enjoy the winters we remember from before the 1980’s

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