Forget Global Warming, Here Comes Oxygen Depletion

Posted on August 18, 2008

With the wheels coming loose on the global warming hoax, it’s time for the Left to start hyping the next phony crisis. It shouldn’t be hard to find something scarier than warm weather. The Guardian’s Peter Tatchell is floating oxygen depletion:

Compared to prehistoric times, the level of oxygen in the earth’s atmosphere has declined by over a third and in polluted cities the decline may be more than 50%. This change in the makeup of the air we breathe has potentially serious implications for our health. Indeed, it could ultimately threaten the survival of human life on earth…

The culprit is of course human civilization, which can only redeem itself by abolishing property rights and repealing the Industrial Revolution.

Now for a word from a grownup:

The reality is, of course, that the oxygen percentage in the atmosphere has been 20.94 or 20.95 percent for thousands of years and probably much longer than that (see the historical graph on page 2 of Dudley 1998 that covers 600 million years). The amount of oxygen in the atmosphere is so huge that the biosphere (and fossil fuels which used to belong to the biosphere as well) is completely unable to change this amount significantly.

The notion that there is substantially less oxygen in cities than elsewhere is particularly absurd due to its rate of diffusion.

Nonetheless, we can probably look forward to new taxes to finance free scuba tanks for disadvantaged minorities.

Venturing into science, Tatchell gives himself a black eye.

Hat tip: Greenie Watch; on tips from mega and Archonix. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.

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4 Responses to “Forget Global Warming, Here Comes Oxygen Depletion”

Nick on August 18th, 2008 6:41 pm

I completely agree. Every day the Left is attacking science. In addition, 10-100 years later they are found out to be wrong. They say the weather is changing. Well everybody knows that. That’s how we had Noah’s flood 4,400 years ago. Then they say we don’t believe that. However, their weather forecast is usually wrong. So why do we have to believe them when they say that they know what the weather was millions of years ago. I am a former atheist and have realized that the only Truth is God. The Bible teaches the Earth is 6,000 years old. I came to God because I realized the “science” the Left uses is not science but a religion that is about getting rid of God.
John Quigley II on August 19th, 2008 11:56 am

Great post. Added to my website about GW.
John Lovaas on August 19th, 2008 12:38 pm

Figure #1 of the Dudley paper quoted above shows that atmospheric O2 levels have ranged from around 13% up to around 35%. It would appear to be extraordinarily difficult to determine atmospheric O2 levels for the previous “thousands of years and probably much longer than that” from a chart with a time axis of 600 million years presented within a span of 2 inches or so.

I would suggest it is better to analyze and critique the data Mr. Tatchell used t oform his opinion, rather than by contrasting his point of view with a random blogger’s inaccurate assessment of a scientific paper.
sharron lay on August 21st, 2008 1:04 pm

this is a great article, i love it. i’m putting this on my favorites.

thanks
sharron