Red Line: Carbon Dioxide

By Rod Martin, Jr

Top 50 Weather Bestseller

Subtitle: How humans saved all life on Earth by burning fossil fuels

How could burning fossil fuels save all life on Earth? While the answer remains quite simple, so many who have been indoctrinated into the "climate change" way of thinking will need to unlearn a few things, first.

The idea that we currently have too much carbon dioxide is entirely wrong. Also, the notion that global warming is bad is also wrong. We live in an Ice Age. The current interglacial is already longer than average, which means that we could be suffering a new glacial period in the near future. If that were to happen, everyone would be screaming for more global warming. Ice Age glacial periods are more than a little brutal. During the last glacial period of the current Ice Age, human population levels were estimated never to have exceeded a few tens of thousands. Would civilization survive 90,000 years without summers, rain, crops and food? Not likely.

By burning fossil fuels, humans have done all life on Earth a great service. Certainly we need to burn those fuels more cleanly, but burn them we must.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tharsis Highlands
• Release date: Nov 7, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370685264

Rod Martin, Jr

Rod Martin, Jr. was born in West Texas, United States. He has been a Hollywood artist, a software engineer with a degree summa cum laude, a writer, web designer and a college professor.Rod Martin's interests have ranged from astronomy to ancient history, physics to geology, and graphics arts to motion pictures.He has studied comparative religion, worked as a lay minister and spiritual counselor, and taught ethics in college.While doing graphic arts in Hollywood, he also studied electronic engineering. In 1983, as Carl Martin, he published his first novel, "Touch the Stars: Emergence," co-authored by John Dalmas (Tor Books, NY). He continues to write science fiction under that pen name.Later, switching careers to computers and information technology, Mr. Martin worked for Control Data, Ceridian Payroll, Bank of America, Global Database Marketing and IPRO Tech. He also created "Stars in the NeighborHood" 3D astronomy space software.He currently resides in the Philippines with his wife, Juvy. He has taught information technology, mathematics and professional ethics at Benedicto College, in Cebu. He continues to teach online and to write books and blogs.

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Red Line — Carbon Dioxide

How humans saved all life on Earth by burning fossil fuels

Rod Martin, Jr.

How ‘climate change’ and ‘global warming’ memes have been used to betray humanity

"Frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out."—Jeff Bezos

Smashwords Edition

May 2018

Published by Tharsis Highlands Publishing

Copyright 2016, 2018 Rod Martin, Jr.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof in any form.

Acknowledgements

Cover photos (via Wikimedia.org): Plants at Modhupur forest by Ferdous (CC BY-SA 4.0), and dry plants by Francisco Antunes (CC BY 2.0). Cover design by Rod Martin, Jr.

Corrections

2017:0130—The first paragraph of chapter 6 included a popular misconception about McDonalds and hot coffee. This has been corrected to include more balanced information.

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Contents

Introduction: The Real Threats of Climate Change

Chapter 1 — 15,000 BC, Dodging the CO2 Extinction Bullet

Chapter 2 — CO2 Starvation

Chapter 3 — What More CO2 Means

Chapter 4 — How Fast is Too Fast?

Chapter 5 — Global Warming and the Start of Civilization

Chapter 6 — Scorched Earth Fantasy

Chapter 7 — Global Warming and the End of Storms?

Chapter 8 — Not Guilty!

Chapter 9 — Hooray for Humans, but Watch Out for Corporations and Their Owners

Appendix

References

Links to Illustrations

About Rod Martin, Jr.

Other Books by Rod Martin, Jr.

Connect with Rod Martin, Jr.

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Introduction: The Real Threats of Climate Change

One of the most positive effects of the modern debate on climate change is that more and more people have started to care about the environment. Sadly, the acrimonious state of the debate has eroded some of that care. Too often the corporate mainstream media uses words like denier, or climate denier and at times has seemed to lose its objectivity, crying for those who disagree to be jailed or worse. Anyone who wants to lock up people for their viewpoints is no friend of humanity. If minds are to be changed, cordial debate is the only way. Anything else tends to look like criminal intent and an urge to hide something.

When NASA posted a page on their website dedicated to scientific consensus, they removed themselves as a scientific agency and turned themselves into a political one. The term itself is an oxymoron—a self-contradictory phrase. Science is never done by consensus (popularity or voting). That my late father ever worked indirectly for this agency has become a mark of ignominy.

In a very real sense, the pseudo-science and anti-science surrounding this topic have taken on the trappings of a new Dark Ages. Even President Obama has stooped pretty low in discussing the climate debate. For instance, he criticized any sharp analysis leveled against the consensus. He compared it with membership in the flat Earth society (LoGiurato). As a marketing ploy, this might work with the weak minded. But it shows a level of underhandedness and flabby ethics on the part of this president who also holds several other dark demerits—a Nobel Peace prize while becoming the most war mongering president in American history (continuing three wars while starting at least one other, and threatening more), and a kill list (Becker; Swann), including his own citizens, which betrays his oath of office to uphold the Constitution of the United States. These are social and political threats. They undermine the very fabric of civilization.

These criticisms I’ve made of the people and organizations who have stirred the pot of discontent a little too vigorously are ad hominem logical fallacies, if we are debating the merits of the climate change claims. They are to the man, so to speak, instead of to the topic at hand. So, let’s switch gears here. Let’s look at the facts related to this topic and not the personalities involved.

Demonizing global warming in an ongoing Ice Age is perhaps a far more immediate threat. This remains especially critical, because our current interglacial—the Holocene—is already as much as 6,000 years older than the average interglacial of the current Ice Age (Broecker). That most people don’t realize that we live in an Ice Age only exacerbates the problem.

If our actions, combined with natural forces, trigger the catastrophic end of the Holocene, then we could see an abrupt end to civilization as we know it. Incidents like the Great Ice Storm of 1998 amplify the fragile nature of