German
evolutionary
biologist and
physiologist
Professor Ulrich
Kutschera, PhD,
said in an interview
that “CO2 is a
blessing for mankind”
and that the claimed
“97% consensus”
among scientists
is “a myth”.
Kutschera authored
over three hundred
scientific publications
and twelve books.
He told the German
“Junge Freiheit” (JF)
that the 97% figure
on consensus
was created
in 2013 by Australian
cognitive scientist
John Cook and that it
has since “turned out
to be untenable”,
as proven by
David R. Legates.
“Cook and Powell
evaluated an arbitrary
number of climate
publications
according to
questionable criteria,”
Kutschera told JF.
Climate doomsday is a
“kind of religious cult”
When asked why
he also signed
the European
Climate
Declaration
declaring no
climate emergency,
he said he
considered it
“important that
a professional
educational
initiative, hopefully
politically neutral,
should finally emerge”.
He rejected the
“‘climate alarmists",
who predict
a fictitious, imminent
‘earth heat death’
and thus practice
a kind of
religious cult.”
“So since plants
need CO2
as a basic foodstuff,
there would be
no life on earth
without this
trace gas,”
said Kutschera,
in response to claims
that CO2 is a pollutant.
“Therefore, the
scientific discipline
of plant physiology
is of central importance,
and CO2 is therefore
a blessing for mankind!”
“Since about 1850,
the CO2 content
of the air has risen
from 0.028 volume
percent (280 ppm)
to 0.041 volume
percent (410 ppm)
today.
This has led to
an increase in
global photosynthesis
– in other words,
we humans have made
the earth greener!”
said the professor.
He also calls
the planned
CO2 tax
“nonsensical”
and that it is
“actually a
kind of new
‘special food tax’
on the state”.
The renowned
biologist
also told JF
that the
natural
carbon cycle
has been altered
by man, so
“that currently
about a third
of the CO2
we put into the air
is consumed
by plants,
which increases
their growth.
The result is that
the earth
is greened by man,
including
higher crop yields.
From which agriculture
benefits worldwide –
i.e. mainly
poor countries
that depend on
agricultural products
to a much greater
extent than we do.”
Kutschera
criticizes
the hysteria
that some of his
fellow scientists
are spreading
and he sees
the climate issue
as highly politicized
and poorly understood.
"I basically rate the
( nature conservation )
movement positively.
However,
I fear that
more than 97%
of its activists
can neither
define the term
''climate’ ,
nor have
understood the
carbon cycle
or the
function of the
Rubisco enzyme,
and therefore act
purely politically."
Despite today’s
little uptick,
carbon dioxide levels
have been declining
for billions of years,
and will continue
to decline
as long as
the shells of
dying sea life
settle to build
massive limestone
deposits on the
ocean floor.
It appears to be
a natural path
to exhausting
this vital
CO2 gas.
Eventually,
nothing
may survive
on the planet,
except for
amoebas,
that don’t
depend
on CO2.
More CO2
produces a
greener planet.
A greener planet
supports more life.
Higher CO2
also supports
more life,
if it warms
the planet, as
lab experiments
suggest it does.