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Several months ago, all media was shouting that the latest revelations
from South Pole are so devastating that we are all about to die.
Several headlines announced: "Never in the history of mankind was the
level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so high." So, I decided to
check, how exactly high is the present level just to see, whether we
are all about to suffocate ourselves.  I got copies of the scientific
articles published in "Science" and started reading them.

Guess, what is the present level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere:
is it 1%, 5%, 10%, 20%, 50%?  None of the above.  Various sources give
it at about one third of one percent (just for comparison, nitrogen is
about 78% and oxygen is about 20% of atmosphere).  Have in mind that
carbon dioxide is not a poison, it is what every living creature
exhales and what every plant inhales, because it is absolutely
necessary for photosynthesis.

The media does bombard us with numbers, but only with those, which
serve their dishonest goals: to create panic, because panic sells.  We
are told that each human exhales about 4 tons of carbon dioxide, which
is 50 times the weight of average human being, so we feel like criminal
polluters and fight with urges to stop breathing at all.  I have never
heard our "objective" media telling us the whole story or at least
mention that without carbon dioxide all life will stop, because all the
plants will die.

Now let us move to the part "never in the history".  The articles
published in "Science" claim to go back 650,000 years, reconstituting
Earth's atmosphere composition from the air bubbles trapped in polar
ice core.  If we believe the presented graphs, the carbon dioxide
concentration has always been fluctuating between 0.18%and 0.3%with
periodicity of about 100,000 years. So, about 100,000 years ago, the
carbon dioxide concentration was 0.3%, while now the maximum observed
is 0.38%. Taking into consideration that there was no measurable
industrial human activity 100,000 years ago, we should presume 0.3% of
carbon dioxide has nothing to do with humans.  Even if the remaining
0.08% is due to humans, this means that if we stop all industrial
activity, we can not go below 0.3%, so what is all hoopla about?

There is one more detail: every data in the published graph presents
not the carbon dioxide concentration at certain point in time, but
rather average of 731 years.  Notwithstanding the present concentration
of 0.38%, if we take the average of the past 731 years, I am sure, we
will not get more than 0.3% concentration and the conclusion will be
that we now are at the same situation, as 100,000 years ago and there
is really nothing to talk about.  Another nuance: the age of ice is
quite approximate and air bubble in it usually between 800 and 2000
years younger than the ice itself.

In addition, at least one of the articles states quite clearly that
there is nothing abnormal in the present atmosphere.  Of course, the
media would not quote this opinion back to you.  So, whenever the media
is trying to scare the life out of you, read the original research and
make your own conclusions.

Fabrikant