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The charity funds hospitals and affordable health care to villages on the edges of national parks, in return for a pledge not to cut down trees. The pledges are monitored, and the result has been a dramatic decrease in deforestation rates and an increase in the health of the local population.
Patients — mostly from farming families — can pay for their subsidised treatment with tree saplings or manure. So for them, treatment is essentially free.
The manure goes to organic farms that HiH is encouraging, as it teaches local farmers how to farm organically rather than slash-and-burn the forest.
As for the tree saplings, HiH volunteers plant these in areas of forest that have been illegally cut. This restores the forest, and HiH receives money for this from people and companies who pay for carbon credits. That money goes towards paying doctors, nurses, dentists, and and keeps the clinics running.
See also https://psmag.com/social-justice/save-the-trees-well-save-your-life-46121 for an explanation of their work.
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PLEASE NOTE: 1) The smoke you see in the photo of a cement plant is not CO2 (obviously.) The CO2 in the photo is invisible.
2) “Taking the mickey” means to make fun or treat someone like an idiot.
SOURCES
Ivor Cummins video
CO2 coalition
https://thefatemperor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/25-Top-Climate-FACTS-CO2-from-Co2Coalition.org-resource.pdf
Library of Congress showing link between CO2 Coalition and George C. Marshall Inst.
https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0002405/
Marshall admission of funding by Exxon:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020913050409/http://www.marshall.org/funding.htm
Exxon annual donations:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150907045825/http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=36
CO2 at 180ppm acc Coalition:
In the last four glacial advances, the CO2 level was dangerously low.
(Taken from Historical Carbon Dioxide Record from the Vostok Ice Core (417,160 – 2,342 years BP – Barnola 2003))
Pleistoicene CO2 below 180ppm:
https://www.thefosterlab.org/mpt
CO2 levels during Permian from:
“CO2-Forced Climate and Vegetation Instability During Late Paleozoic Deglaciation” — Montañez et al, 2006
CO2 levels during Permian
The Siberian Traps and the End-Permian mass extinction: A critical review – Saunders et al 2009
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Estimated-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-levels-during-the-Permian-shown-as-parts-per_fig5_225378751
“could increase it to more than 2000 parts per million by volume (ppmv) as accessible fossil fuel reservoirs are exhausted (3).”
“CO2-Forced Climate and Vegetation Instability During Late Paleozoic Deglaciation” — Montañez, 2007
“15 Pa (below Pleistocene minimum), 27 Pa (pre-industrial), 35 Pa (current) and 70 Pa (predicted future). After 35 days of growth, CO 2 had no effect on the relative growth rate, total biomass or partitioning of biomass in the C 4 species. However, the C 3 species had greater biomass accumulation with increasing CO 2 partial pressure.”
“Strain Effects of low and elevated CO 2 on C 3 and C 4 annuals”
Oecologia (1995) Dippery et al.
At a concentration of about 150 ppm or less, many plants die of CO2 starvation.
https://co2coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Carbon-Dioxide-Benefits-the-World-2.pdf
“Effects of low and elevated CO 2 on C 3 and C 4 annuals I1. Photosynthesis and leaf biochemistry” – Tissue et al 1995
“Plant responses to low [CO2] of the past”
Gerhart and ward 2010
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03441.x
Jurassic map from:
“A new marattiaceous fern from the Lower Jurassic of Patagonia (Argentina): The renaissance of Marattiopsis”
Escapa et al. 2014
“Palaeo-wildfires in the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) of Western and Central Europe – Palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental significance”
— Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments Dieter Uhl 2012
Oxygen levels
Berner et al., 2007 http://www.sciencemag.org /content/316/5824/557.summary
Solar luminocity reconstruction:
Carboniferous map:
“Carboniferous macrofloral biostratigraphy: an overview”
Oplustil et al 2021
Publication: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Oxygen levels from:
“Oxygen and Evolution” – Berner et al. 2007
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1140273
See also:
Late Triassic and Early Jurassic palaeogeography of the world
Jan Golonka – 2007
Jurassic deserts:
“Earliest Jurassic U-Pb ages from carbonate deposits in the Navajo Sandstone, southeastern Utah, USA” – Parrish 2019
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its fun to consider atmospheric o2 when considering time travel, go back to precambrian times and you wont be able to walk around very much, mostly just sit down and have a headache, but in Carboniferous era o2 is much higher than today, so you would be able to walk around and do stuff.. for example
15:47 Looks like something from Spore.
Ivor Cummins has applied a similar level of expertise to epidemiology and cardiology.
I suppose it's a lost cause, but it's the astronomical speed of which we are accumulating CO2 in the atmosphere that could spell disaster for plant and animal life, including us, who have spent a few million years evolving in low CO2 conditions! Yeah sure life thrived in the Jurassic, but the kind of life we have today would have faced a major extinction if they were thrown into a Jurassic climate.
Science aside. I would love listening to potholer reading fairy tales ir something. Such an amazing reading voice and style.
1:08 This is a picture of a cement factory, that white smoke isn't CO² – I learned this interesting fact via reading the video description, thx Potholer54!
Somehow I get a feeling the forests would be doing just fine now, if, you know, we didn't cut them all down…
Stupid question. But does it even make sense to talk about a climate at the age of the dinosaurs at all?
They ran around the Earth for 60 million years or something so obviously you had ice ages, warm periods and everything in between during that time.
It´s a bit like saying 100 million years ago they had tropical plants in Antarctica. Where was the piece of land we now call Antarctica a 100 million ago?
Continents move slowly but they do move. On such a time scale it could have been anywhere on Earth.
Am I just too tired or is the donation link missing in the description?
I have a phd in economics, let me read you a page from the Communist manifesto.
Why do we have to use statistical analysis on adjusted data sets to see any warming? And even then the "warming" is less than 1 degree?
Mr. Jesus seems to not care that Cairns is totally cut off by record-breaking rains and flooding. Some places on the US East coast are also having record-breaking floods. Who cares……?
It would be nice to have rational examination, including cost benefit analysis when trying to make decisions. Talk of Dangerously low CO2 is as absurd as the word Crisis. My personal preference would be for us to reduce all areas of the world to a slightly below replacement rate of reproduction until we arrive at 2 or 4 Bn (for everyone to enjoy a US or EU level of consumption). The UK has most certainly done all it need do in this regard. It could rationally reduce to it's carrying capacity and in the name of climate change, end immigration of people that need nearly all of their needs to be met by highly polluting cargo ships. Very strange how the UK Green Party is in favour of Hyper Immigration.
I'm wondering if potholer54 has come across British earth scientist Paul Burgess who seems to be a regular contributor at GB news, the UK version of fox news? He starts off with a claim that the medieval warming period was a global phenomena and the temperatures equivalent to todays, and presents a peer reviewed study to back it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm7nIGa4S8o
Humans are very strange creatures
I mean… it probably wasn’t good for humans
Fun fact: C4 plants evolved during the miocene and it is believed that declining CO2 was a significant selective pressure allowing them to proliferate.
God, I hope Ivor Cummins sees this and responds. Do you suppose that he’d rethink his position or would he double down?
One of the first people I subscribed to on youtube back in the before times and still going strong!
Why do people ignore the RATE of change & immediately jump to “the climate was better?” It’s just further proof we’re doomed. Such a dramatic jolt in earth’s natural systems always leads to abrupt mass extinction.
idk the Devonian had some pretty cool fish
They are stocking up on coal for the cold.
[ – "BEIJING, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Temperatures in parts of China, including in provinces Shanxi, Hebei and Liaoning, hit their lowest levels since records began, state broadcaster said on Sunday, as a cold snap gripped large swathes of the country.
The city of Yichun in Heilongjiang could see a record low of minus 47.9 C (minus 54.2 F), recorded in January 1980, broken early next week, according to a meteorological forecaster from the area.
The agriculture ministry launched an emergency response and the national disaster prevention body issued a directive to local authorities to prepare emergency plans, as well as snow and ice removal equipment.
"Storage of thermal coal should be done in advance to ensure the normal power generation of power plants during the critical period," added the directive. – ]
Lol. Nice easter egg. 😀
January 12, 2023
[ – Earth's average surface temperature in 2022 tied with 2015 as the fifth warmest on record, according to an analysis by NASA. Continuing the planet's long-term warming trend, global temperatures in 2022 were 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit (0.89 degrees Celsius) above the average for NASA's baseline period (1951-1980), scientists from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York reported.
The past nine years have been the warmest years since modern recordkeeping began in 1880. This means Earth in 2022 was about 2 degrees Fahrenheit (or about 1.11 degrees Celsius) warmer than the late 19th century average. – ]
You make amazing videos, thank you!!
So booming with life… that should somehow mean we are to take it that this would be beneficial for human life? I guess this guy didn't get the memo about there being vastly different types of life that thrive or suffer under very different circumstances.
The absurd thing is to believe that humans are responsible for climate change or that we can fix the climate with more taxation and lower food production.
Brilliant, I was waiting for this since seeing Ivor's video.
just seeing a bnew potholer54 video pop up makes me smile.. i just smiled a lot. yey
One thing anyone can be sure of is that whenever they see capital letter "FACTS", it is presented so by someone who doesn't understand the difference between a fact and an opinion.
Sure , let all go back to old Earth in a time capsule.
I hate sharing a country with that airhead Ivor.
He posts a lot of fear mongering conspiracy nonsense about geo-engineering.
And yet here he is supporting terraforming the Earth with CO2.
He spams a lot of his fake science on LinkedIn now too.
what about whataboutism? Have you considered that?
Who gives AF?