{"id":63815,"date":"2022-10-14T07:25:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T12:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63815"},"modified":"2022-10-14T07:25:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T12:25:59","slug":"planetary-gas-chamber-not-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63815","title":{"rendered":"Planetary Gas Chamber not \u201cClimate\u00a0Change\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Planetary Gas Chamber not \u201cClimate\u00a0Change\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n
\"\"<\/a>We have been aware that burning fossil fuels would alter, destabilise and warm the atmosphere since at least 1847 and the narrative has been controlled since shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n

Had we described the phenomenon as creating what it is, a \u201cPlanetary Gas Chamber\u201d for most, if not all complex life<\/a>\u00a0on the planet, perhaps we might have acted to save the biosphere rather than perpetuate the extraction industry which is in the accelerating process of incinerating the entire ecosystem.<\/p>\n

What an incredible irony that a Republican Congressman from the USA was the first person (that I am aware of, feel free to correct me below if I\u2019m wrong) to give a lecture on human induced climate change.<\/p>\n

We have been through a raft of \u2018slogans\u2019 that have all downplayed the reality that the unfettered incineration of fossil fuels would negatively alter the atmospheric energy and \u2018Green House Gas\u2019 balance. \u201cGreen House\u201d, such an innocuous term for an existential threat, tailored to not scare the serfs.
\nA near-forgotten speech made by a US congressman warned of global warming and the mismanagement of natural resources in 1847<\/strong>
\nThe 1847 lecture that predicted human-induced climate change.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cBut I would argue his defining moment came on 30 September 1847, when, as a congressman for the Whig party<\/a>\u00a0(a forerunner of the\u00a0Republican party<\/a>), he gave a lecture to the Agricultural Society of\u00a0Rutland County<\/a>, Vermont. (The\u00a0speech was published<\/a>\u00a0a year later.) It proved to be the intellectual spark that led him to go on and publish in 1864 his best-known work,\u00a0Man and Nature: Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Planetary Gas Chamber not \u201cClimate\u00a0Change\u201d We have been aware that burning fossil fuels would alter, destabilise and warm the atmosphere since at least 1847 and the narrative has been controlled since shortly thereafter. Had we described the phenomenon as creating what it is, a \u201cPlanetary Gas Chamber\u201d for most, if not all complex life\u00a0on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[3981,141,1057,328,19308],"class_list":["post-63815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-atmospheric-warming","tag-climate-change","tag-ecosystems","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-kevin-hester"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63816,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63815\/revisions\/63816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}