Along with several other definitive subjects that have become unresolved in the past few years (the border, inflation, government waste, etc.), the environmentalists have been struggling a bit as well. The global climate warming change emergency is in perpetual flux, the polar ice caps are defying dire predictions by not melting on demand, and the experts have had to rely on daft examples such as forest fires and earthquakes to prove their point.
I have, on occasion, been a thorn in the side of the environmentally devout by pointing out the contradictions and failed prognosis in their scriptures. Each Earth Day, I post a piece that, along with many of the bat-guano-looney promises, is filled with conflicting promises. The notable aspect is that the people who insist boldly that “the science is settled” cannot explain the scientific paradoxes that routinely crop up.
Well, I will possibly send tremors through the community once again by exploring another conclusion promising mankind’s doom. Now, admittedly, this one is not an emergency scenario, such as the perpetual promises of calamity affecting us within a decade. But all the same, it does not portend a thriving future.
We have come to learn that there will be a point when the Earth's oxygen levels will plummet to a catastrophic degree. A variety of factors will contribute to this collapse, and, as a result, it is expected to have an adverse effect on most of the planet’s biology.
A group of scientists worked out the most likely cause of Earth becoming uninhabitable, and they say it will be a result of our planet losing its oxygen-rich atmosphere. While it's impossible to predict the future, scientists are able to use computer models to analyse a variety of different scenarios and calculate how long Earth might continue to have an oxygen-rich atmosphere.
Not to panic, as this is promised to take place in maybe 1 billion years. However, they have been able to pinpoint (as relative as that term may apply), when this commences. We may need to begin making arrangements for our descendants in a few millennia.
Scientists believe Earth's atmosphere will collapse within the next billion years. But before a complete collapse, experts reckon the decline will first begin only 10,000 years from now, which isn't as far away as it sounds.
So yes, once again, we are facing our own extinction, but with all of this predictive expiration dating taking place the problems arise in the causes of this event. They are the things the environmentally pious do not want to acknowledge. Says one of the scientists behind the study: "For many years, the lifespan of Earth's biosphere has been discussed based on scientific knowledge about the steady brightening of the Sun and global carbonate-silicate geochemical cycle.”
This begins to interrupt the foundation of many of the environmental activists' lectures, which is that mankind is the cause of all that is befalling the Earth’s pristine nature. How can we be blamed – and subsequently shaken down for restorative payments – if the ultimate influence is well beyond our control?
Then there is another detail in this research that many a climate proselytizer will not want to be addressed. The effects that lead to this plummeting oxygen source have everything to do with CO2; namely, there will not be enough. (I’m sorry, what was that?!)
This increased sun activity will begin to break down the atmosphere, and the result will be plummeting carbon dioxide, which in turn will fail to be sufficient for plant life and the phytoplankton in the ocean, the two primary sources of oxygen on the planet. And thus, we are faced with the ultimate paradox; the very thing they are clamouring to remove from our planet right now is said to be the needed element to keep us thriving.
Earth getting warmer will cause carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere to break down, and so in these conditions the planet will struggle to grow as it requires carbon dioxide for photosynthesis.
This is starting to feel like the promises from the 1970s of an ice age becoming the ruination of mankind. And then there is the ultimate disqualifier tacked on in these assessments.
An important context note from this research is that this isn't due to human-driven climate change, but rather it's Earth’s natural evolution.
Well now, that surely throws a roadblock in the constant drive to blame us for the promised demise of things. Somehow, I gather two things will come as a result: This data will be roundly ignored, and I will also be described as being a science denier…for listening to what scientists, backed by NASA, have to say about these conditions.
But that is to be expected from the group that has, for decades, been routinely incorrect in their promises of environmental doom. To position them in proper context, just remember these are folks whose primary messaging can be summed up thusly: “We can control the weather.”
