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<DIV dir=ltr class=gmail_attr>From: <B dir=auto class=gmail_sendername>Ugo
Bardi</B> <SPAN dir=auto><<A href="mailto:prudentlobster@gmail.com"
target=_blank>prudentlobster@gmail.com</A>></SPAN><BR>Date: вт, 22 июл.
2025 г. в 18:59<BR>Subject: Living Earth CO2 as a Metabolic
Poison<BR></DIV><U></U>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>Dear colleagues, <BR><BR>after some delays for
various reasons, our paper on CO2 as a pollutant (Mine, Phil Bierwirth's, Kuo
Wei Huang's and John McIntyre's) has been published on a journal of moderate
prestige, belonging to the Royal Society of Chemistry. <BR><BR><A
href="https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2025/VA/D5VA00017C"
target=_blank>https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2025/VA/D5VA00017C</A><BR><BR>I
believe it is a fundamental paper because it turns on its head the current
debate. It is not that CO2 doesn't cause global warming, but its negative
metabolic effect may be more pressing, more important, and perhaps even more
deadly. Just consider that none of our ancestors of the past several million
years lived their whole life at the current concentration of 425ppm. And we keep
increasing it. To say nothing about living in indoor spaces where concentrations
are commonly much higher -- it is easy to have more than 1000--2000 ppm inside
buildings, where we spent most of our life. <BR><BR>This paper goes
straight against the current propaganda effort that aims at presenting CO2 as
harmless "plant food". It is not a small thing; I had a friend of mine
estimating the cost of the "CO2 coalition" campaign, and it has to be a few tens
of million dollars. Not something you can hope to crack with a single paper and
the effort of a few good-willed individuals. Yet, it is there, and it may have
some effect. Actually, the first reactions in comments on LinkedIn have been a
little "over the top" to say the least. And the best has to come. This paper
will be deeply hated by all those people who reason in binary terms. Even some
renown climate scientists seem to reason in these terms. If CO2 is a greenhouse
gas, then it cannot be ALSO a metabolic poison. <BR><BR>So, I can see
several destinies for this paper. Most likely, it will be ignored. There are
chances that the PTBs will find some tricks to have it retracted -- retraction
is the current form of censorship in science. If it goes viral, which I think is
unlikely, but not impossible, it will go through the demonization machine,
already well tested and experimented with "The Limits to Growth." In case it
happens, you people have no idea of where I live, right? In the meantime, I'll
be applying for a visa for Madagascar and camouflage myself as a
lemur. <BR><BR>Seriously, take a look at the paper. It will take some
effort and some diplomacy, but some ideas, eventually, tend to see the light and
the small bunch of people who signed it are not alone. There are several groups
working in this field: ostracized, ignored, defunded, and occasionally insulted.
But truth has its ways to emerge, in the long run<BR><BR>Let me know your
comments. <BR><BR>ATB<BR><BR>Ugo<BR><BR><BR><BR><PRE cols="72">--
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Ugo Bardi
Gaia Knows Best
<A href="http://livingearth.substack.com" target=_blank>livingearth.substack.com</A></PRE>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman">От: <B dir=auto class=gmail_sendername>Svet Zabelin</B>
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