Let’s end the climate scare promoting abortion

Climate alarmists assert that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant that must be controlled. A Google search for "Joe Biden" and "carbon pollution" yields almost 49,000 results. But gaseous carbon dioxide (CO₂) is not carbon, which is a solid, and it is anything but pollution. It is an invisible, non-toxic, trace, natural component of the atmosphere, allowing plants, and thus all life on Earth, to thrive. Contrary to the assertions of activists, politicians and most mainstream media, the figure below, shown by Dr. William Happer, Professor of Physics Emeritus at Princeton University in a November 15, 2021 presentation hosted by the Climate Intelligence Foundation (CLINTEL) in Amsterdam,demonstrates that we are close to the lowest levels of CO₂ in Earth's history.

Since photosynthesizing plants evolved in a relatively high CO₂environment, they become starved for CO₂when levels are low as today. This is why greenhouse operators inject an extra 1,000 ppm of CO₂into their greenhouses to stimulate plant growth. Not surprisingly, rising atmospheric CO₂ is significantly helping plant growth across the world. According toNIPCC's Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts report:

Long-term CO₂ enrichment studies confirm the findings of shorter-term experiments, demonstrating numerous growth-enhancing, water-conserving, and stress-alleviating effects of elevated atmospheric CO₂ on plants growing in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Indeed, as explained in the Aug. 23, 2021 ICSC-Canada's Climate Change Minute, increasing CO₂ is "greening" the world with the stimulation of plant productivity, which has occurred in spite of fires, disease, pest outbreaks, and deforestation. NASA released the image and video below, reporting ("Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Greening Earth, Study Finds," April 26, 2016):

From a quarter to half of Earth's vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25.

An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet's vegetated regions. The greening represents an increase in leaves on plants and trees equivalent in area to two times the continental United States."

This image shows the change in leaf area across the globe from 1982-2015.

Credits: Boston University/R. Myneni

Click on the above video to play.

In 2020, NASA confirmed that this beneficial trend is continuing.

No one should fear rising CO₂levels; they have been much higher in the past and no climate catastrophe occurred. The recent rise is working to green the Earth and benefit us all. To learn more about the real facts concerning carbon dioxide, the stuff of life, please listen to Dr. Lehr and my interview of educator and citizen climate researcher Sam Horowitz here!

After presenting to Campaign Life Coalition, Action4Canada and other pro-life groups in Canada over the past few months, I would be pleased to speak with any pro-life organizations in my country or the U.S. about the climate scare threatening their movement and how to beat it. Readers are encouraged to contact me at icsc.tom.harris@gmail.com at any time!