Leighton Steward Presentation

8/11/2019 Leighton Steward Presentation

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AT THE

CROSSROADSENERGY AND CLIMATE POLICY SUMMIT

FOSSIL FUELS: GREENING

EARTH AND SAVING LIVES

H.EGH EADCHAA,AEEDC2.G


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HE CHAGE CO2 IS THE MAJOR

CAUSE OF GLOBALCLIMATE CHANGE.

NOT PER 500 MILLION

YEARS OF PALEOCLIMATEHISTORY!


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MOTHER NATURE HAS BEEN INCHARGE AND MAN HAS NOT

WRESTED THAT AWAY FROM HERYET- EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE!

CATASTROPHIC FORCASTS ARE

FOUND ONLY IN UN-VALIDATED

CLIMATE MODELS THAT HAVEYET TO PREDICT EVEN THE NEAR

TERM FUTURE ACCURATELY.


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BUT LOOK WHAT A REAL, WHOLE-EARTH EXPERIMENT IS SHOWINGUS.

SATELLITE DATA IS SHOWING US

THINGS MAN HAS DONE TOEARTHS PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT,

SHE HAS BEEN GETTING GREENERAND GREENER AND STILLGREENER FOR THREE

SUCCESSIVE DECADES!


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WE HAVE BEEN FEEDING THEPLANTS, FOOD CROPS, AND TREES

MORE CO2A REAL, ALBIETINADVERTENT, EXPERIMENT OF

CO2 TO EARTHS ATMOSPHERE.

HABITS AND ECOSYSTEMS AREBECOMING MORE ROBUST PEREMPIRICAL EVIDENCE.


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OVER 5,300 REAL, NOT MODELED,

STUDIES BY THE WORLDSAGRICULTURAL COMMUNITYDEMONSTRATE WHAT WOULD

CO2 LEVELS TO INCREASE BYANOTHER 300 PPM.

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WITH 80% OF THE US POPULATION POLLING

THAT THEY ARE ENVIRONMENTALISTS,

INCLUDING REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS,

AND INDEPENDANTS, REMEMBER TO

ALWAYS TELL THEM THE REST OF THE

STORY.

THEY THINK OUR PRESIDENT IS AN

ENVIRONMENTALIST WHEN, IF HE COULD

ACTUALLY REDUCE CO2 TO PRE-INDUSTRIAL

LEVELS, WOULD BROWN THE EARTH AND

STARVE MILLIONS OF ADDITIONAL PEOPLE.


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ALSO REMEMBER, POVERTY IS THE

GREATEST KILLER OF ALL AND THE

POOREST NATIONS HAVE THE WORST

ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES.

DO NOT DEPRIVE THOSE POOR

NATIONS, OR THE REST OF THE

WORLD, OF FOSSIL FUELS THAT

PROVIDE THE LEAST EXPENSIVE,

MOST RELIABLE ENERGY.


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Climate models are scarcely worth the codes they are

written on and their predictions vs. empirical results

continue to widen.

IPCC fails to make any assessment of adverse impactsof a decarbonization policy which would be far worse

than any impact from global warming.

or even abandoning their decarbonization ambitions.

What moves me the most is that policies invoked in its

(decarbonizations) name are grossly immoral and in the

UK, have devised a blatant transfer of wealth from the

poor to the rich- money for wind farms and one of themost expensive forms of electricity known to man.

Global warming orthodoxy is not merely irrational. It is

wicked


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A F F D?

They furnish reliable energy; from electricity to transportation fuels.

Consider the pre-Industrial Revolution Earth: Most water polluted & dysentery common. Foods not refrigerated

and poisoning common.

No wide distribution of medical supplies. Remote locations hadnone.

Reusable syringes inadequately washed & reused. No early storm warnings for coastal areas or ships at sea.

No swift transportation to escape harm.

No air conditioning to keep you healthy.

No powerful machines to plant & harvest crops. Streets mostly mud and manure.

Travel overseas not possible for 99% of population.

Plant kingdom had much less food-CO2!

Slave labor and abject poverty common- Changed with mechanical

energy.

For billions, much is still true.

Should we deny use of fossil fuels because some un-validatedcomputer models protect possible harmful effects from rising, non-polluting CO2 that enriches habitats and ecosystems and feeds the

undernourished? A E H. L


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A

Oceans are alkaline, not acidic. You cant make them more acidic

until they become acidic. More acidic is a scaremongering term.

There are not enough fossil fuels on Earth to turn the oceans

acidic.

The slight reduction in ocean pH, despite a rise of 40% in CO2, hasseen the coccoliths, which comprise a third of the calcareous life

forms in the oceans, increase their mass by 40% in just 220 years.

Anal sis of the database of 1398 studies the lar est in the world

shows a net positive impact from the slight reduction in ocean pH.Seagrass growth increases 50% with a further decrease in pH.

Essentially all marine organisms have adaptive abilities to

reasonable reductions in ocean alkalinity.

The center for CO2 science sees no support for a catastrophic

future for marine life.

A paleontological look-back of 1.8 million years when CO2 levels

were lower than today, shows growth rates 31% higher in todays

elevated CO2 environment.

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