Diary Of The Last Age

Five years ago I posted about a comparison of global warming activists to 19th Century Abolitionists.  I wrote a chapter of a novel making that point more clear.  Todays "Warmists" will someday be compared to the 19th Century Abolitionists, fighting an opposition to oil and gas companies like Abolitionists fought against slaveholders. I found out about that time that Chris Hayes, of MSNBC, also made the same comparison.  Now that comparison has been made by David Attenborough . The attitude of young people towards tackling the environmental crisis is “a source of great hope”, David Attenborough has told MPs, as he predicted that polluting the planet would soon provoke as much abhorrence as slavery Asked by the Labour MP Vernon Coaker to expand on how public attitudes were shifting, Attenborough replied: “There was a time in the 19th century when it was perfectly acceptable for civilised human beings to think that it was morally acceptable to actually own another...

We are on track for 1000ppm by 2100 if we do nothing.  At 1,000ppm,  human cognitive ability drops by 21% .   Outdoor CO2 already reaches 500ppm regularly in industrial cities; indoors, in poorly ventilated homes or school workplaces, it can regularly exceed 1,000ppm. A  study of bedrooms in Denmark  found that overnight concentrations of CO2 exceeded 2,000ppm, with measurable effects on student’s performance the following day. The global warming deniers argue that CO2 is not a pollutant and therefore it's presence in the biosphere doesn't matter.  However, that just is not true.   Air pollution over London. Rising levels of outdoor pollution will mean levels rising indoors too. Photograph: Nick Ansell/PA  Indoor levels of carbon dioxide could be clouding our thinking and may even pose a wider danger to human health, researchers say. [.....] However, the authors of the latest study – which reviews current evidence on the...