Ang and I did not reach G-pa’s farm in August of 2024. After what happened to her in Illinois, is it any wonder she lost track of time. We both had become confused, had felt lost in space and in time… from Missouri on. My guess, we reached G-pa’s in mid-October, and moved into the hidden root cellar about Halloween. It was crisp, cold, and stars emerged in the early evening sky.
What follows are pages from G-pa’s Journal. We discovered the notebooks soon after crawling through the entrance between the fallen dead and the huge boulder. G-pa had printed a title, seemingly after the piece was written: One In A Million—Hard to se
Sal
Dear Sal and Ang,
I’m in the barn, alone. And, after eight years, it is empty. The emptiness makes me think of you and of the space once filled by The Truck. The space is, of course, not empty. More in a second.
All commo here is down. Power is out. We’re running off the solar generator. Things have unfolded faster than anticipated. The sh*t going on… so few understood, it hasn’t so much hit the fan as it has risen in the rivers, broken the levees, overflowed the banks. And suddenly has us up to our eyeballs swimming in sewage. But back to emptiness.
In every cubic inch there are 4.4 x 1020 molecules of air. That’s:
440,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules!
Can you see it? Me neither. 440 quintillion. That turns my brain to mush. I even have difficulty visualizing parts per million and that’s 1014 powers less. Just hard to visualize, and if you can’t visualize it how can you understand it? Chaos may purposefully be created—in that state of mind control is easier to implement.
So I’ve an idea. Do this for me… go out and buy 20 reams of copy paper. Make sure they’re traditional reams with 500 sheets/ream (not the downsized 400 sheet variety—although those will work if you buy 25 packages). Now take the wrapper off the first pack and place the ream on the floor. Do the same for all the packets. Depending upon the weight of the paper, the stack will be about 50 inches high.
Okay, you don’t have to physically do this as long as you can imagine a stack of 20 reams of copy paper. Here, I drew one for myself.
1 sheet equals 100 parts per million; 4 1/4 sheets equals 425 ppm
Now, that 50-inch stack holds 10,000 sheets of paper. There, its in front of you so you don’t even need to imagine it, it’s easy to see. And, let’s say were talking about 375 or 425 parts per million (ppm). Well, that’s the equivalent of 3 ¾ or 4 ¼ sheets sitting atop of the stack of 10,000 sheets. One sheet = 100 ppm.
Now were getting someplace. What we really need is only six sheets of paper, the bottom one to represent the bottom 9,994 sheets (or 99.94% of the atmosphere), and the top five to do some figuring. Maybe even less, as what we’re really interested in is the difference between 3 ¾ - 4 ¼ parts per 10,000 (375-425 ppm), or ½ sheet of paper (50 ppm). Good grief, this math is easy enough for a third grader, isn’t it?
Of course, what we’re really talking about is the amount of CO2 (carbon dioxide) in the empty space about us that’s actually filled with air.
Measured in 1975 give or take a few years, the CO2 concentration in Earth’s atmosphere was 375 ppm (or 3 ¾ parts per 10,000); and by 2024 it had risen to 425 ppm (4 ¼ parts per 10,000); a difference of ½ sheet of paper in a stack of 10,000 sheets. Some how it’s okay to ignore the other 9,999 ½ sheets which represent the rest of Earth’s atmosphere.
Again the Of Course--we are talking here about Global Warming and Climate Change created by the excess release of CO2 from manmade sources. This is serious stuff. Governments around the world have enacted laws mandating compliance with processes and procedures to reach a Carbon Net Zero state (Net Zero and similar terms mean stopping the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere, and maintaining it at, or reducing it from ½ sheet to maybe 4/10th of a sheet.)
Worldwide businesses and industries have sprung up to meet those mandates, and bureaucracies at all levels have grown to control those businesses and industries, and to control the behaviors of all people from the vehicles they drive to the stoves they cook on and the light bulbs in their bathrooms. Billions (109), probably trillions (1012) of dollars have been spent (and earned) on implementation and infrastructure because of a belief system based upon perhaps 1/8th of one page atop a stack of 10,000 pages. [Yes, I know, ½ page, but follow along.]
All belief systems have flaws, and Global Warming and Climate Change have become belief systems. The more intellectually, emotionally and financially invested people become in a system, the more rigid the system becomes, the more likely the flaws in become encoded and encased, and the more likely a continuous narrative will propagate the validity of the hoax. A system that openly and honestly questions itself, that promotes checks and balances, that examines itself for flaws and if found eliminate those flaws, can continuously evolve and improve.
The question must always be asked: Are any of the factors or variables upon which the belief system is base, flawed, faulty or forged? When 1012 dollars are involved, the felonious feel the need to protect their funds and their futures whether or not $ x 1012 spent on mitigation produce any results.
We need to go a step further but let me first tell you I am enthralled by the advancements in technology brought on by the mandates of the Climate Change belief system. From solar energy collection to storage to power usage, those who have sought to work within and to perfect those elements of the system should be applauded. Much of it works incredibly well (other parts are complete boondoggles).
Despite my love of technology, we must ask if that half sheet difference in CO2 was caused strictly by human beings burning petroleum products, or other human actions, or was some of it caused by an increase in volcanic activity or other natural causes? For example: There’s an interesting article on the internet about the three I’s--Italy, Iceland, and Indonesia. In April of 2021 each nation had a massive volcanic eruption, and it was noted that in one week the amount of CO2 belched and blasted into the atmosphere by these three mountains was the equivalent of all man-produced CO2 in the proceeding 70 years. That article didn’t mention the other eruptions that year which amounted to about 70 (there have been 46 so far this year). Also, it didn’t note all the submerged oceanic eruptions of which there were more than the land-based ones (after all, the earth’s surface is 70% ocean—but still, why not report those under its surface?) We’ll look at more examples below.
What about other potential variables or factors? Every rocket launched into space blows a 15-mile in diameter hole in the ozone layer which protects the earth from the most harmful radiation of the sun. In 2023 there were 211 successful orbital launches; in the first seven month of this year the number is 135, a rate which will bring us to over 230 = 41,000+/- square miles. Or HAARP, the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Instrument (a 33-acre field of 180 high-powered Ionospheric transmitters in Gakona, Alaska funded by U.S. Air Force and Navy) used to heat the ionosphere thereby creating a pressure vacuum beneath and giving it the ability to change weather patterns; also able to generate ELF radiation via modulated HF heating of the ionosphere thus instigating earthquakes. What about volcanic eruptions caused by earthquakes? Possible? Look up LBJ’s 1964 statement on weather modification, “…he who controls the weather controls the world…”
What of the disbursement of aluminum and other chemical nanoparticles into the atmosphere for a myriad political or Machiavellian reasons? Sounds like a flawed fact, doesn’t it? Did you see the photo, innocently posted last month on social media, of the beautiful rainbow in New Hampshire. The rainbow was a perfect arc over green mountains and valleys, but it was pink. Solid pink. That’s not the typical color spectrum caused by sunlight refracting through water droplets. Pink likely is caused by aluminum oxide in the atmosphere. Who put it there? Why? What effect does it have on global temperatures, or on plant growth? Or, why have numerous astrophysicists reported that earth’s warming is covarying with increased temperatures on Mars? Could it be the sun energy varies as it goes through it’s short, medium and long cycles, and the half sheet difference of CO2 in out atmosphere has nothing to do with climate change? Two thousand scientists of Climate Intelligence have declared that a climate emergency does NOT exist. That the astronomical sums spent on carbon mitigation are misspent—me, maybe the motivation behind the encoding and encasement of the flawed belief system is the ka-ching* taken in by those benefiting from these mis-expenditures. What do you think?
There certainly are additional questions needing answers. Some “environmentalist” and some politicians have declared that CO2 is a toxic substance. Is it? We inhale air (even in this empty barn), withdraw some of the oxygen for our use, then exhale all the other gases including those we produce metabolically, and including the CO2. (Our bodies metabolically produce CO2, but they don’t want to exhale all of it as it is the body’s chief mechanism of vasodilation.) Most plants absorb CO2 and via photosynthesis convert the carbon into themselves and their fruits, vegetables, seeds, etc. Indeed, in hot house (or greenhouse) farming the ambient CO2 of 4 pages/10,000 is boosted to between 6 and 10 pages (600-1000ppm) because plants grow more rapidly and contract less disease via “CO2 fertilization”. The idea of burying 70,000,000 trees to control global CO2 levels is antithetic to its own stated purpose—that is, it is a flaw or falsehood in that belief system. All life on earth dies if CO2 drops into the 1½ sheet range (4¼ is a lot healthier).
Ask also, Has the net-zero CO2 movement (belief system) hijacked Environmentalism? I suggest looking up recent (say last ten years) statements by the founders and/or leaders of environmental organizations they headed 25 to 50 years ago. So much funding (taxpayers’ dollars) has gone to CO2 reduction that other concerns have withered.
False narratives endlessly repeated create inconvenient “truths.” How does one, or a culture, resist indoctrination and break flawed yet accepted illusions? Sal and Ang, you know how attached I am to the earth, how I’ve always been an advocate for the environment. Know now how deeply I feel betrayed by the false elements and fraudulent mandates of the climate change tyrants.
Sal, Ang, I’ll leave it to you and your generation to answer these questions. At this age, the best I can do is to raise questions.
G-pa
AUGUST 2024: https://books2read.com/u/m2Byqd
