AN OPEN LETTER TO AL
GORE, PLAYFULS.COM, NPR,
THE WASHINGTON POST and THE NEW
YORK TIMES.
April 2, 2007
Global Warming is caused by
Automobile Exhausts and
Industrial Emissions, you
say? That is not really
accurate: you've left out the
most important causes.
I challenge all of you to have
the courage and honesty to
publish this open letter. I say
this is a challenge, because
most if not all of you have a
relationship with so-called
"Special Interests" for whom
creating a perennial political
conflict over reducing emissions
forestalls the need for them to
do anything about the
contribution of their core
businesses to the real source of
the problem. Let us see how
many, if any of you, are willing
to address the "Trees and Plants
and Seas" issue and the T2P
Ratio (Trees and Plants vs.
People Ratio) and how it tracks
into the issue of Global
Warming. For that is the real
cause. Where do you think the
Air comes from? And if
we've reduced the planet
surface's forests by over 1/2 in
5 centuries, while population
has grown ten fold in the same
time period, what do you think
is the cause of atmospheric
degeneration?
Global Warming is the results of
as I shall explain, not
just what you've claimed:
emissions. Your surprisingly
unscientific approach is based
on bad science: it is
an avoidance of the real issues
of environmental deterioration,
which is all about our habit of
deforestation, deflorastation
and oceanic destruction, far
more than it is about
"emissions" from autos and
industry. Global Warming is
first and foremost a byproduct
of damage to the Earth's
atmosphere and water system's
CAPACITY to cleanse itself and
reprocess gasses, sedimentation
and pollutants, which capacity
is largely a byproduct of the
size of our forests and plant
systems and the flora in our
oceans. Once, it had adequate
capacity. It no longer does.
When the atmosphere can't
process industrial and auto
emissions, then we are in
immediate trouble. Clearly,
reducing these emissions are
critical in the long term. But
even without these emissions,
human byproduct emissions alone
when ratioed against the volume
of "Trees and Plants" is far
more critical. For the globe
will warm ANYWAY even with all
of Mr. Gore's proposed measures.
With the present component of
Trees and Plants and Sea
deterioration, we will all die
out ANYWAY. We need to focus
first on the atmosphere and
sea's CAPACITY to process CO2
and CO and so on, first and
reduce runoff toxicity and river
and sea pollutions first, long
before the emissions ever become
a tipping point problem, or we
simply won't live to see that
day as a species.
No amount of Emission Controls
and no amount of Sustainable
Energy are going to halt the
growth of heat and CO2 and CO
(and other gasses) entering the
atmosphere, since the means that
do this are generally, during
manufacture, inclined to release
even more harmful pollutants, or
it is a byproduct of the
increase of human populations,
the need to heat, cool and power
their homes and transport them
in current, private
transportation techno ecologies.
Such produces heat that
a weakened atmosphere can't
process. The Solar Energy Panel
of today is an example: the more
we build, the more harmful
effluents we release into the
environment as we build them.
An example of a "self defeating
prophesy", we need "clean
manufacture" of Solar Panels
first, or all we do is replace
coal pollution with Solar Panel
manufacture pollution. An
admirable solution, Solar Panel
Manufacturers still need to get
their act together, not
impossible, but the incentive
does not appear to be there to
clean up their methods, either.
Global Warming comes mostly from
depletion of Oxygen in the
atmosphere. This results from a
weakening of the environment's
ability to reduce CO/CO2 in the
Atmosphere. That is largely due to
deforestation and deflorastation,
along with several other
consequences of a particularly
horrific scenario. These are
some very "close to home"
scenarios that none of you
appear to want to face, such as
rampant destruction of sub-Ocean
flora and fauna populations
which constitute the ultimate
foundation of and the original source of
nutrients for all life on Earth.
Particularly, I doubt that the
Post is willing to face the real
problem since it buys paper as
part of its main line of work: is
the Post or Times willing to
stop printing on paper since
every paper page they
print represents at least
one breath lost to an animal or
human somewhere? Or National
Public Radio, powered by coal
driven generators, each puff
from which represents a loss of
the "liver function" coal
provides beneath the earth's
surface, filtering out water's
pollutants on its way to the
Aquifers that feed "Trees and
Plants and Seas"? Will the coal
giants claim they can produce
clean burning coal, when each
pound we remove from the land,
removes a vital cleansing
function that purifies the
earth's waters? And Mr. Gore, I
personally believe he'd prefer
to spread fear of Global
Warming, rather than the science
of our environmental losses over
the past 500 years. Each
of you represents an example of
a business or individual blinded
by your own commitment to that
which you do in life. Each
of you represents a
mind-bogglingly naive lack of
concern for a not so distant
future where humanity simply
faces extinction, and not from
causes you all of you are using
for some very childishly hidden
political and business agendas.
Mrs. Rockefeller, have you or
your husband, Senator Jay
Rockefeller, ever considered
that if this Planet becomes
unlivable, all the oil, coal,
energy and technology money in
the world won't be able to save
your family's final generations
nor allow them to survive beyond
the point where the Earth can no
longer support Human Life, no
matter how far ahead your
husband's great grandfather may
have planned? Mr. Vice
President: would you be of
sufficient open mindedness to
admit that you are wrong? Could you
ever unlock your white knuckled
grip on Democrat Party Politics
long enough to wake up and give up your
party's support for your
solution to Global Warming that
won't ever be a cure, for a
solution that will? Or, instead,
will you
continue to endorse just a band
aid that insures that Democrats
everywhere can forever blame
Republicans everywhere for
Global Warming that won't ever
be cured by the Democrats or the
Republicans adoption of
emissions measures, unless we
address the real "inconvenient
truth" behind Global Warming
that faces both sides: this
"Trees and Plants and Seas
thing" ? How many generations
do we have left, 10?
Here's the lineup, a real
"inconvenient truth" for Mr. Al
Gore to consider:
a) 70% of Global
Warming results from
increase in CO2 and CO, a
buildup over 500 years
(since Columbus landed in
America) that resulted from
reducing the Tree Forests by
75% from 18.5 billion acres
coverage to under 8.5
billion acres globally. This
has reduced the capacity of
the earth's Atmosphere to
absorb and recycle CO2,
CO and other byproducts of
human life, and would
have happened whether there
was industrial/auto CO2/CO
generation or not, only the
duration of said disaster
reaching to the point of
human extinction
would increase by 10%
in number of years, were
there no CO2/CO producing
engines. We'd only be
lengthening the time to our
extinction by controlling
Carbon emissions alone: by
about 10%. The real problem
is, there are no longer
enough trees and other flora
to sustain growing human
populations and needs by
turning CO2 back into Oxygen
and by sustaining our
environmental ecology. We
have to do both things, but
the "Trees and Plants and
Seas" issue is far more
pressing. We've seen a
10-12% reduction in oxygen
over the past Century alone.
We need to replant on a
Global basis now or we die
out in the future. We
will become the dinosaurs,
an unexplained blip in
future history leaving our
skyscrapers, ipods, space
shuttles and automobiles
behind for some future
species to scratch its head
and wonder at.
b) 20% of Global Warming
results from the
unrestricted pollution of
the ocean that results from
runoff and dumping by all
the nations of the world,
most notably the Far East,
Asia, and Russia. This has
steadily depleted undersea
fauna, which produces
essential nutrients,
plankton and contributes to
a cleansing life cycle that
supports the ecology of our
atmosphere and soil with
climate and rainfall, and
which with (a) above amounts
to nearly 90% of the
increase in CO2 and 95% of
the increase in Global
Warming over the last 100
years. This is coupled
to over harvesting of the
Sea's bounty of edible sea
creatures and related
collateral damage, which has
worsened the damage.
c) Less than 10% of Global
Warming's increase in the
past 100 years has resulted
from industrial and human
heat generation and engine
byproducts and emissions.
Reducing these emissions and
conserving Rainforests is
NOT ENOUGH to materially
block the loss of capacity
for CO and CO2 in our
atmosphere, the goals by
those led by VP Gore is
entirely fallacious.
Humanity faces cold climates
which it must heat against,
and hot climates it must
cool against. Refrigeration
produces a large heat gain
in the atmosphere, at double
the need to keep food
cold today, as does Air
Conditioning. Of this
source, nearly 50% of it is
a result of automobile,
truck, jet, and rail
emissions, but because the
vast majority of these
sources are HEAT sources
into the open air, a fair
amount of this heat is
absorbed in other ways than
production of CO2 and CO.
Clearly constant improvement
in engine emissions is a
boon, and Hybrids are as
well, so long as battery and
engine development do not
produce more emissions,
waste or other losses than
are saved by them, on the
balance. But nothing more
than a band-aid over a much
bigger problem: that
little "Trees and Plants and
Seas" problem.
To solve the problem, we have to
address the atmosphere's
foundation and its support
infrastructure. We have to
address prevailing conditions
and provide for the futur.
We have to ensure the ability of the
environment to continue to
generate the atmosphere at a
sufficient rate that offsets the
ongoing demand from the growth
of human populations and the
associated industrialization, not
just moderate the danger of industrial
and auto emissions and try to
conserve existing rain forests. While
worsened by emissions, the real
problem is we've cut down over
half our precious supply of
trees in only 500 years. At the
present rate of depletion of
Trees and Plants, we face
extinction in a bare 250-300
years.
In fact, on the scale of
contributing factors,
atmospheric condition problems
caused by tree and plant
loss represents a whopping 90% of the
problem. Emissions are only 10%
of the problem. Together, they
are a death knell, but to
address only emissions and
pollutants and ignore the
already lost 10 billion acre of forests by not
planting new ones and
encouraging plant growth, is
ultimately beyond suicidal.
Solving the problem actually has
much less to do alone with
emissions controls by
themselves, which while bad, can
be controlled. But
Humanity can't
live with the present loss of
trees and plants, we've reached
a critically reduced rate of CO2
removal and a very substantial
Oxygen loss has taken place. Human
populations continue to climb.
Where are all those needy lungs
going to fill themselves with?
It is uncanny that, for all your
intelligence, none of you even
remotely considered "where is
all this Air coming from?"
nor "If the atmosphere is losing
its ability to prevent CO2 and
other greenhouse gasses from
accumulating, what simple steps
can we take to turn it all
around?"
The only solution is to FIRST
restore the balance of nature
which has been industrialized
into only 40% of its previous
capacity these past five
centuries. Or Humanity dies
out.
It's that simple. Air can't be
imported from anywhere, and we
do not possess enough energy
resources to produce it from
chemical sources. The
vision of giant CO2 scrubbers
and Oxygenation systems that
span the Grand Canyon is better
suited to a Bradbury novel.
Even if we conserve existing
forests that is not enough, we
are presently 55% short of
sustaining the Earth's
atmosphere, at a bare minimum we
need another 4.25 billion acres
of trees and all the plants we
can find space to plant, just to
equalize with present
populations. And with population
doubling at an alarming rate, we
are already well behind the O2
sourcing curve. It is also not
likely that we can just reforest where old forests
have been deforested. Most
forests which were depleted are
already occupied by industrial
civilization. We need to plant
anew in unused areas. Which also
means cultivating fertile
nurseries and young growth
fields, which requires devotion
of resources to the introduction
of efficient organic fertilizer
methods. It would be
inappropriate to expect trees to
carry this load on a diet of
inorganic chemical food, it
reduces their CO2 unloading and
O2 production capacity by almost
1/2.
Even if we work hard to reduce
CO and CO2 emissions and other
pollutants by penalizing all the
auto and truck manufacturers on
the planet, that is just not
going to even being to solve the
problem: the growth of human
populations and the inadequacy
of present atmospheric and
environmental byproducts of 500
years of wanton deforestation
and wanton destruction of
sub-oceanic ecological balance,
has caused the present situation.
The Industrial-backed
scientists who claim Global
Warming is simply a result of
industrial emissions alone is
simply NOT OF A SOUND SCIENTIFIC
BASIS.
We are at the tipping point, but
clearly Mr. Gore and his peers
are ignoring the facts and
relying on misdirection and bad
science. Human health effects
due to loss of oxygen in the
atmosphere is already
compounding, and no amount of
pharmaceutical solutions are
going to head off the ultimate
collision of depletion of flora
and the human need to breath a
healthy atmosphere. We were
given brains for a reason, but
we clearly are not using them on
this issue.
Yet, the solution is quite
obvious and absolutely
necessary, unless these same
scientists would on their slide
rules care to calculate the
impact of loss of over 10
Billion Acres of Forest, nearly
33% of all other flora on the
Surface of the Earth and its
oceans, which resulted from
Human civilization's
encroachment alone, and tell me
differently. The solution.
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Within 50-150 years we must
plant an ADDITIONAL 10 BILLION
ACRES of the earth's surface
with high oxygen producing
Trees, and allow natural flora
to surround them. After 500
years, we are going to need to
institute sound population
growth control or we will exceed
the ability of the Earth to
support human life altogether
within 700 years, as there won't
be room enough for enough Trees
and Plants and Humanity teeming
in the 100 Billion numbers.
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We must formulate a strategy to
limit the amount of wild fishing
globally to a rate of around 1/2
what it is today, and must clean
up farm fishing so that the fish
farmed are not parasite infected
or inorganically fed, are more
healthy and can actually sustain
populations without sickening
them. We must cap all sewage
runoffs, and post process river
effluent where rivers feed
pollutants into the oceans. We
must eliminate toxins from the
aquifers where they stand, such
as Mercury from past industrial
facilities, and so on, it must
be cleaned up and recycled. We
can not afford to further
introduce mercury
pollutants into the world's
waters, it is killing us in fish
and food we eat, and it is
killing our waterways.
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We must rebuild 50% of the
earth's barrier reefs adding to
them and mark them off limits to
gaming and fishing.
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We must find a scientifically
sound way to repopulate fish
species in the wild, globally,
as we have depleted entire
banks, fisheries and species.
These four steps are mandatory
and must take place at a rapid
rate, or the byproduct Earth's
atmosphere will have within 100
years suffered to such an extent
that there will be no rebounding
back from it. Emissions, while
not quite as a priority as the
Trees and Plant depletion and
replacement issue, needs to be
addressed by the Oil Industry,
at it's expense, and by the
Engine Industry at its expense
with a mandate to find ways to
reduce production of CO2 and CO
in the interim. This should not
be dumped on the backs of the
taxpayer, since it is caused by
the Oil and Transportation
industries and Industrial
technology producers, it is
THEIR RESPONSIBILITY.
I would suggest that recent
Democrat Party assaults on the
political scene about Emissions
standards as an answer to Global
Warming, is simply misdirection
on behalf of these large
Corporation Campaign Givers
(E.G. the Oil Industry, the Auto
Industry and the Industrial
technology Companies), who would
prefer the taxpayer foot the
bill rather than they, the
responsible parties themselves.
Which, of course, explains VP
Gore's vehemence, as he is
entirely misdirecting the
American Taxpayer away from the
question of "Who should foot the
bill?" The companies who
produce polluting technologies
ALONE, not the taxpayer, nor the
consumer nor the businesses who
do business with them. A
mandate on price controls and
profit reinvestment in cleaning
up emissions needs to be made a
part of any Emissions control
act, or they'll just do it all
over again in a different way
when backs turn.
However, I wouldn't hold up much
hope, since in fact, most of
them back the political
candidacy of those who are
fighting to "Reduce Global
Warming" by requiring the Auto
and Engine manufacturers,
etc. to reduce CO2 emissions,
which is like saying we need to
cure AIDS by eating more chewing
gum: If you chew enough, I
suppose then clearly you won't
have time to catch AIDS in the
first place. But others will,
and AIDS will continue
It is extremely irritating to
see scientists misstating the
facts in support of public
figures who while their hearts
appear to be in the right place,
seem to latch on to a
"convenient problem" like Global
Warming and then propose all the
wrong solutions year after
year. The problem may slow a
bit with Emission Controls
increased, but it isn't going
away any time soon that way,
unless we simply first address
the depletion of Trees by
planting billions of acres more,
and filtering pollutants before
they end up the oceans from
whence all life sprang and
taking related steps. My
organization: Ten Billion Acres,
is addressing this issue by
attempting to organize a human
effort to replant in areas
fertile enough to support new or
renewed forest growth, grove
growth and even individual tree
growth. While it is a huge
effort, it is the only effort
that makes sense.
We have less than 500 years to
solve this problem, as that is
how long present tree growth
will last and support the
Atmosphere. Conservation of
existing forests is not enough,
there aren't enough trees to
support growing Human
populations. And we have to
find the space, old forests are
gone replaced by human habitats,
industrialization and the like.
A number of good economic
byproducts, such as a much
healthier supply of saplings for
the Logging industries, while
producing a NET INCREASE in the
billions of Acres of forested
surface on the earth, is a
start. Then, we have to start
on the 100 Billion Acres
project: a successor program for
improvement of the surface of
the Ocean's floor and the
re-growth of nearly depleted
species throughout the ocean of
both flora and fauna.
Unless both 10 Billion Acres and
100 Billion Acres completes in
the course of centuries, we
believe a scientific basis for
human extinction is already upon
us. If any of you were worried
about an endangered species at
any time in your life, you'd
better consider putting Homo
Sapiens on that list, because we
just jumped way up near the top
of it.
Humanity has by deforestation
and water pollution of the
oceans, tampered with the
regeneration cycle of the
Earth's atmosphere. And that is
what's CAUSING the Global
Warming. Air Pollution is
simply worsening it, but is not
the primary cause.
It's time for the lot of you to
wake up and smell the
Atmosphere: it's
disappearing. Won't help
much if we have no atmosphere to
breath, even without any
industrial emissions.
The time we have left to do
something about it is
disappearing as well.
The science is behind
me, ladies and gentlemen: not
you.
Sincerely yours,
Dr. Edward Englebart
for The Ten Billion Acres
Project
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