Proof of the Carbon Problem

Climate change deniers often say today's warming and its problems are part of a natural cycle and not caused by human activity. A shortage of nitrogen in plants across the globe may be the result of excessive carbon caused by human activity.

As has been said here before, the rate of global warming is unprecedented by any know evidence. The decline of nitrogen in plants and its effect on insect pollinators is something quite sobering. Pollination is necessary for our food supply.

The extra sunlight available to plants cranks up their growing speed. This, in turn, uses up nitrogen. Lower nitrogen levels have been found in wild and volunteer plants, sometime thought of as "weeds." (As one horticulturalist said, there are no weeds. There are only plants in the wrong places.)

The resistance to admitting there is man made global warming is a mystery to me. The stakes of it are so large our food and even national security are in play.

Of course, in saying this probably I am understating the importance of ego and pride. Once people stake out a position it is a serious blow to their egos to be proven wrong. In some cultures there is something called "losing face." When people there are humiliated by something they have done they commit suicide because they cannot bear to live on in this circumstance. Maybe we have a lighter version of that.

Let's say we were going to unite as a country and do something about the carbon we are putting into the atmosphere. Without going into the vast minutia, lets say it reduced our standard of living by 15%.

It would be a bargain compared to the predicted problems of climate change.