The animus of Babel lurks in the heart of every Unbeliever to one extent or another. Conformity, oneness, uniformity, and group-think all manifest the ideology of Babel, the desire to have one unified Borg-like mind on everything. We have always sensed the presence of this animus in the Global Warming crusade.
A danger was allegedly facing the entire race. Only concerted, unified effort would avoid the inevitable calamity. A unified effort required both group-think and One Mind. One language. Unbelievers, whose hearts lust after that ancient One-Tower, were always going to get suckered. More often than not they wanted the Global Warming narrative to be true because it justified re-erecting that ancient monolith. In a perverse way, One World Government is a comforting prospect to those who live apart from God.
Naturally those who dissented were regarded as dangerous traitors. They had to be silenced. At root, as with ancient Babel, it was never science which was driving the enterprise but a lust to unify the world in its rebellion against the Creator. It appeared, for a time, that the cause was big enough, the implications horrendous enough, and the urgency pressing enough that Babel, like Mordor, would be rebuilt. The Necromancer was taking a new shape.
But time was always going to be the greatest enemy--time, and the decree of the Living God. More and more we are observing holes, cracks, detritus, and decay in the latest re-emergent One Tower. Now, even Environment Editors in national newspapers are eschewing group-think.
It was the little boy who stunned the crowd by stating the obvious about the emperor's nudity. If rising CO2 levels were true, a fourth form science pupil could have told us that this would naturally be good for plant growth, since CO2 is the greenist of all gases. More greenery means more food in the food chain--which is a good thing.Plant growth, ocean studies show climate science far from settled
One paper — published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science — says plants will absorb 130 billion tonnes more carbon dioxide this century than current models suggest. This amount is equal to about four years worth of global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels. The research says the contribution of increasing CO2 to plant growth has been underestimated by as much as 16 per cent.
Graham Lloyd
Environment EditorSydney
NEW research into plant growth and ocean life highlights how much there is still to learn about the way nature responds to rising levels of carbon dioxide and what this means for climate change.
New research does not suggest there is no longer anything to worry about from rising levels of CO2, but with some people suggesting the “hiatus” in global warming has now hit 18 years, and with fresh uncertainty about the sensitivity of the climate system to CO2, the new findings provide further pause for thought. One paper — published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science — says plants will absorb 130 billion tonnes more carbon dioxide this century than current models suggest. This amount is equal to about four years worth of global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels. The research says the contribution of increasing CO2 to plant growth has been underestimated by as much as 16 per cent.
There are still uncertainties but this knowledge has the potential to reduce forecast levels of warming. In particular, it provides great encouragement for reforestation and other land-based approaches to sequester CO2.
Other research, from Western Australia and published in Geophysical Research Letters, says plankton in the Arctic Ocean increased production and stored more carbon in response to greater UVB radiation. Contrary to expectations, Arctic plankton production increased by almost 40 per cent in more than three-quarters of the plankton communities sampled.
An analysis of the findings said this would combat the impacts of increased Arctic warming and increase food in the Arctic Ocean.
What both research findings show is natural systems are complex, difficult to model and not fully understood. Models have been unable to accurately predict several key issues, including the unexpected growth in Antarctic sea ice to record levels. The reality is models will always be only as good as the information they process. That’s why science will always be a long way from settled.
It is an irony of the age that a fourth form science student can see things more clearly than the "cleverest" people on the planet. That's why we are confident that science has never been at issue here. It is all about the Black Tower and who can succeed in being atop its heights.
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