A Meaty Matter

A Meaty Matter

Vegans and Climate Change Adherents have much in Common.

A 1^st World Problem

I believe veganism is a product of a spoiled society. I served in the military and at times have had to live rough in the field for many weeks at a time. I have also participated in survival exercises. In the wild, gathering food is a massive and full time undertaking leaving little time for anything else. You eat whatever you can find to sustain yourself. You can't afford to be fussy. Animals provide the best means of obtaining an enduring source of food. Vegetable matter suitable for human consumption and nourishment is not abundant "in the wilds" and this is particularly so in Australia. Indeed, it is believed that one of the reasons humans advanced as a species is because of fire and meat. Meat gave humans protein and certain vitamins and amino acids that were not easily obtainable from vegetable matter. Fire, combined with metal containers, allowed humans to soften certain types of vegetable matter such that it could be digested. The digestive tract of humans is not suited for metabolising vegetable matter such as grass, the fodder of most herbivores. There is good reason why humans, like apes, have carnivore teeth. It is for eating meat.

The Relationship between CO2 and Atmospheric Temperature - It doesn't exist!

Next we move onto the myth that by somehow eating only vegetable matter will reduce CO2 emissions. You need to read "Should Meat be on the Menu?", by David Mason-Jones. David is a friend of mine. We both graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon. David served in Special Forces but, after leaving the Army, became a journalist, author and editor of a country newspaper. Should Meat be on the Menu is very well researched. David consulted with the CSIRO in its writing. The answer to the question is, "Yes, definitely." Raising beef responsibly does no harm to the environment.

Indeed, if you watch, "How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change" presented by Allan Savory you will see how grazing animals play a vital role in restoring and maintaining pastures which lock up carbon and need it for their good health.

Now we move onto the whole matter of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane emissions and the stupidity of seeking to do that.

CO2 has no greater effect on the temperature of the earth's atmosphere than any other gas or water vapour that comprises it.

Note that there is no correlation between global temperatures and CO2.

That's a fact the alarmists just can't accept but as a person who studied Thermodynamics and particularly the Thermodynamics related to gases, I can assure you that the effect of CO2 and Methane absorbing infrared, both from the sun and being radiated from a warm earth, is well and truly dwarfed by the effect of energy transmission by conduction of heat to the other gases that dominate the composition of the earth's atmosphere and the movement of these gases and water vapour by convection and wind. The idea that CO2 and Methane play a significant role in affecting the world's climate is pure science fiction. It is bad science and, in some cases, it is perpetuated by outright fraud and propaganda.

Here's another example showing that CO2 does not drive atmospheric temperatures.

Note that there is no correlation between CO2 and the earth's temperature. Indeed, you can see the only pattern is that CO2 follows temperature. It does not cause it.

What then causes global warming? It is likely that the sun plays a key role in this as do the oceans of the world because they store up the sun's energy when it is very active and then release it at times when the sun is not radiating to the same intensity and the earth is getting cooler.

And for the last 10,000 years the earth has been getting cooler.

Note that the recent warming period we have experienced has not in any way been exceptional when viewed in context with past history.

Here's a more recent history, showing detail over the last couple of thousand years:

The above graph shows the relationship between atmospheric temperatures and the sun's activity. Note that CO2 doesn't play a role in this. It's concentration in the atmosphere is affected by temperature rise. It does not cause it.

The Coming Grand Solar Minimum and What it Means for the World

So what is the sun doing?

The sun runs in (approximately) 11 year cycles of intensity as shown. Note how these are presently diminishing in intensity. This is normal. It is nothing to be alarmed about in itself. However, cooler times are coming our way.

Here's what Prof Valentina Zharkova, Professor of Mathematics, Northumbria University, UK, says about this:

"Looking ahead to the next solar cycles, the model predicts that the pair of waves become increasingly offset during Cycle 25, which peaks in 2022. During Cycle 26, which covers the decade from 2030-2040, the two waves will become exactly out of synchronism and this will cause a significant reduction in solar activity.

In cycle 26, the two waves exactly mirror each other -- peaking at the same time but in opposite hemispheres of the Sun. Their interaction will be disruptive, or they will nearly cancel each other. We predict that this will lead to the properties of a 'Maunder minimum'. Effectively, when the waves are approximately in phase, they can show strong interaction, or resonance, and we have strong solar activity. When they are out of phase, we have solar minimums. When there is full phase separation, we have the conditions last seen during the Maunder minimum, 370 years ago.

So what does a Maunder, or "Grand Solar Minimum" look like? Here are two presentations you should look at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxGBoTLzrOk

In this video, John L. Casey, the President of the Space and Science Research Corporation, explains the Grand Solar Minimum and its likely effects on such things as increased seismic activity.

And this one:

GSM - Modern Grand Solar Minimum Documentary published on Mar 16, 2017

This documentary suggests the world is heading not to a warming event but a freezing one!

This is a good comprehensive documentary which points out how fast this change is likely to occur.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPLq_Dixs8A

Concluding Summation of what is really driving "Climate Change"

So you see, there is little point in limiting the farming and consumption of meat products or, indeed, agriculture generally.

This whole vegan fad is being driven by other agendas. It has nothing to do with Anthropogenically induced climate change or the reduction of CO2 and methane emissions.

It is a pandered elite who have never had to, as I have, killed animals in order to survive. It is about the excessive exercise of political power, extreme socialism and forced wealth redistribution where money is taken from those who have worked hard to earn it and given to those who don't and won't. This idea of wealth distribution is flawed also because it is based on the false premise that wealth is finite, that is, if one person has it, they must have gained that wealth at the expense of others. This is, like AGW, totally flawed logic. Wealth is created through sacrifice (delayed gratification), hard, persistent work and saving. Wealth is virtually infinite. All that is needed is for everyone to have equal opportunity and unfettered access to education, information and commercial opportunities. That's what truly free enterprise gives us all. Socialism destroys will-power, work incentive and eventually the economy.

There is something fundamentally evil in this whole Anthropogenic Global Warming/become-a-vegan scam. I suggest for the good of your children and those you love, you spread the word. Anything that diminishes free enterprise and impacts upon your individual freedom, will eventually harm you economically and socially. In terms of nutrition, nothing beats a healthy well balanced diet of meat, dairy, vegetables, nuts and fruit. Everything in moderation is the key to a long and happy life.