From the Chicago Field Museum Climate Exhibit: CO2 makes Poison Ivy grow. Yes, but what about the millions of other plants in the biosphere that is booming? What about agriculture? I really resent this sort of one sided presentation foisted on children that won’t know any better.
Watch this YouTube video showing how a Cowpea plant responds to increased CO2 levels. Most any plant will react in much the same way:
And it gets worse.
Kids can now buy Carbon Credits at the museum from the flatlining Chicago Climate Exchange, which Gore and Pachauri are advisers for.
They may as well just throw their money down the toilet as CCX is now in EPIC FAIL mode. Sure, take money from the kids, why not?
The months of flatlining at the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) should be a hint to the rest of the world that carbon trading is dead. Time to take it off life support. Even at 10 cents a ton, nobody wants it. At it’s peak in July 2008, it traded for $7.50 per ton of CO2.
Chicago Climate Exchange close on June 30th, 2010 – click for source
See who is on the CCX advisory board here
And there is lot’s more. How ’bout that Malaria Myth?
The Field exhibit promotes the theory that global warming will cause increased
incidence of malaria. Thatʼs a powerful scare story – global warming, then malaria in
Chicago. In the early days of settlement there was a lot of malaria in the Midwest.
According to the Mackinac Center for Public Policy:
Willis F. Dunbar in “Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State,” writes that the disease “was so prevalent that it was rather unusual to escape it.”
According the Paul Reiter, a malaria expert, malaria was a serious problem in Britain during the very cold period in the 1600ʼs known as the little ice age. Malaria, called ague, was mentioned 13 times in Shakespeareʼs plays.
Experts on malaria and other mosquito borne diseases have been fighting a losing battle with global warming believers. The idea that global warming will promote malaria is too good a scare story to let the facts get in the way. Nine malaria experts published a letter in the June, 2004 Lancet with the title: “Global warming and malaria: a call for accuracy.”
Above: Malaria endemicity in 1900 (a, top) and 2007 (b, middle) by increasing severity category. The difference in endemicity (c, bottom) from 1900 to 2007 indicates worsening malaria in red areas and improvements in blue (Gething et al., 2010).
If you give this issue a moment of thought, this result should be obvious. Of course malaria is not as bad now as it was 100 years ago. Global health interventions have reduced the problem significantly.
We covered it here on WUWT.
Gore, like the Field Museum, still pushes the factual errors associated with this. See here.
You can read all about the Chicago Field Museum Climate Exhibit in a July 5th walk through report (PDF) by Norman Rogers of www.climateviews.com who has now earned a place in my blogroll. Some of the other exhibit photos are similarly stunningly stupid.
h/t to Tom Nelson
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Has anyone bothered to call the Chicago Field Museum on the lie they’ve posted? CO2 doesn’t make poison ivy’s poison more poisonous because poison ivy doesn’t produce poison. Poison ivy’s sap contains urushiol — and most people are allergic to it.
But saying “allergen” doesn’t produce the chill factor that saying “poison” does…
“He ain’t sick. He’s only got the ague.”
Don’t go to Michigan, that land of ills;
The word means ague, fever, and chills.
Can’t sell your carbon credits in the CCX market so you peddle them to kids.
How disgraceful !!! Be a man and just accept your loses !!!
I think Obama and company has something to do with this obamanation.
“Know the crooks and their roles:
George Soros, Joyce Foundation and connection to CCX.
What is CCX, the Chicago Climate Exchange, projected to gross 10 Trillion a year is Cap-N-Tax passes. Obama played a pivotal role in the formation of the CCX. (Click here for expose)
Barrack Hussein Obama, Board Member of the Joyce Foundation, funded the formation of the CCX. (
Valerie Jarrett is still on the board, Obama’s top adviser.) Obama sat on board and funneled money to Ayer’s brother (wild huh, just a guy in his neighborhood) and to form the CCX.”
http://www.examiner.com/x-14143-Orange-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2010m4d27-Scandal-Obama-Gore-Goldman-Joyce-Foundation-CCX-partners-to-fleece-USA?cid=channel-rss-Politics
This is more than sad:
I’ve been to the Field Museum several times over the last 20 years; while in Chicago for HP user group meetings. A good friend of mine from NM with a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology (among others) was on the visiting faculty at the Field; once I got a ”behind the scenes” tour of the upstairs lab area that was fascinating.
Overall the exhibits at the Field are a true national treasure.
AND THEN:
To have them stoop to this.
As per above: More than sad.
As a kid, I used to spend summers on an island that is mainly glued together with poison ivy, so I learned early on how to recognize it. Poison ivy is easy to avoid. You just have to remember that it is arranged in 3-leaf clusters. That will steer you clear.
And all science takes it off the chin for climate science.
As I’ve said previously, climate science is to science what kazoo players are to classical musicians.
So..
Carbon credits are selling at 0.10, and the Museum is charging $1? Add that to their irresponsibility…
This is the same way Hitler-Jugend was fostered.
How long are they going to keep up with this fake science? Anyone with a bit of education can see right through those carbon criminals.
Nor do the gods appear in warrior’s armour clad
To strike them down with sword and spear
Those whom they would destroy
They first make mad.
Bhartṛhari, 7th c. AD; as quoted in John Brough,Poems from the Sanskrit, (1968), p, 67
and a thousand variants on this theme – but a proverb from ancient times.
But modern man is, of course, immune now, isn’t he. (*evil grin*)
Look,I represent the Bio Diversity and Equal Opportunities for the Scarlet Pumpernckle Society and on behalf of our membership must protest the emphasis placed by the Chicago Field Museum on the growth of Poison Ivy habitat attributed to co2 . Have they nothing to say about the recent growth spurt of the Scarlet Pumpernickle ,which two decades ago was on the threatened plants register? We have protested their selective bias ro the Museum authorities but to date have received no response to our emails.
That particular map of malaria needs to start a bit earlier. From:
http://www.smcmad.org/malaria.htm
So back in the 1849 era California ought to have been shown with fairly rampant malaria. It was good public health systems that controlled it (and control it today… at “110 in the shade, and their ain’t no shade” in the Central Valley of California, there is plenty of heat for mosquitoes…
BTW, the native California vector (mosquito) happily lives at elevations up to 6000+ feet in the mountains. Think “Base Camp” of Squaw Valley Ski Resort… It’s not the temperature, it’s the public health system and bug sprays…
Oh, by the way, here is an interesting little story about a Malaria outbreak about the time I was an infant in Nevada County (in the mountains above the Central Valley):
http://www.ajtmh.org/cgi/content/abstract/3/5/789
at Lake Vera. Yeah, it’s “only” about 2500 feet elevation…
The whole notion that warmth is what matters is just soooo broken.
Oh, and from a google of “Alaska malaria history”
we have the google timeline:
“1878 – Yellow fever had claimed 19000 lives in Memphis alone in 1878. Malaria outbreaks in states as far apart as Alaska , Louisiana , Virginia and Wisconsin had claimed thousands of lives in recurrent epidemics over our history. ”
Yes, that pesky old Alaska and it’s terrible tropical heat strikes again /sarcoff>
and toward the end of the Little Ice Age at that…
Yes sir-eee that 1878 global warming in Alaska must have been mighty bad…
Too quick…read ‘Pumpernickle’ and “to’ the Museum’.
Michael says:
July 18, 2010 at 12:32 am
fluoridated parents
fluoridated, chlorinated, vaccinated, indoctrinated– ex: I always thought The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was some great novel we were supposed to respect. Then I learned what it really was. Ewwwwww! It took me until I was 47 to actually think about it for myself.
Kids are getting indoctrinated with global warming now. Some will learn later in life that is was political propaganda.
Is this unprecedent cooling at these high latitudes? See pools of cold areas (0C) off northern Chile 25North and Argentina (north), Uruguay
http://wxmaps.org/pix/sa.00hr.html
re previous refers to 700mb vertical velocity map
http://wxmaps.org/pix/sa.00hr.html
Full PDF for the maleria call to accuracy. http://www.marshall.org/pdf/materials/221.pdf
That plant growth video is very cool. It doesn’t just grow taller and bigger. It grows insanely fast. Maybe NASA should look into growing plants using higher concentrations of CO2? Oh wait. No one’s going into space anymore.
Anyhow, I’ve never seen or heard of this before until recently. Nice to see the comparison.
At WCR some wrote on GW something to the tune of:
“Everyting that’s good will be less, and everything that’s bad will be more.”
Do you ever wake up at night and wonder if the future of the country will get past all this? We’re talking some serious organised, widespread North Korean-style brainwashing here.
It’s always interesting of course that WUWT always seems to never give the full story.
(1) never report the results of Free Air Carbon Dioxide Experiments (FACE) which show much less response than the beloved cowpea in a luxurious environment showing none of Liebig’s minima.
(2) CO2 isn’t Jack’s beanstalk – not enough water – doesn’t matter
(3) CO2 fertilisation will reduce protein yields in wheat – is that what CO2 lovers want?
(4) increased CO2 in the atmosphere means more cold injury from frost
(5) and CO2 will preference natural woody species – trees and shrubs in savanna woodlands choking out C4 grasses – is that what CO2 lovers want
Perhaps it might be more complex than you think. Why doesn’t Anthony give us the full story? How simple it is to give is a picture of a plant in a growth chamber.
REPLY: The experiment was done with identical nutrients, identical soil, identical water, identical light. CO2 was the only variable. To see the “full story” (covered previously) on Liebigs law and plant growth see here.
Oh and frost formation is a function of available water vapor, temperature, cloud cover, and wind, Co2 hasn’t anything to do with it. Why didn’t you give the “full story” about that?- Anthony
Hmmmm. You get side-tracked by that Malaria-stuff. We should concentrate on that Museum…… I checked their web-site. No mail-adresses.
I was recently in the Chicago Field Museum. The do-gooders that run the place have installed motion detectors that operate the lights inside of the display cases. When nobody is around the motion detectors turn off the lights and save electricity, right? If you’ve been to the Field Museum you know that some of the display cases are huge and have hundreds of exhibits, so you’re standing there looking at the exhibits when suddenly the lights go out. You end up looking like an idiot jerking and waving at the display cases trying to keep the lights on so that you can read the dialogs that are in the display cases. A clear example of what happens when over-educated half-wits who have been shielded from reality for the balance of their lives end up in a position of responsibility.
Yes but,
You can nitpick and cherry-pick a few minor examples, but on balance CO2 is a harmless and beneficial minor trace gas, essential to all life on Earth. More is better.
Trying to demonize “carbon” is self-hatred; you are made from carbon.
Here, get educated:
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The thing about the photosynthesis bit is that how confused will children be? They are being shown that co2 is a toxin while in biology class some of them are being told that for photosynthesis and food crop production to take place CO2 is an essential ingredient. I can’t see how you spin this story to teenagers.
As for the malaria issue here are the counter points I made in May:
Eg: From Shakespeare to Defoe: Malaria in England in the Little Ice Age
In 1946-1948 there were 1500-2000 cases of malaria per 10,000 of the population in the territories of the former USSR
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/05/22/manns-1-8-million-malaria-grant-who-do-we-ask-for-a-refund/#comment-395182