CO2 is Not Good for Your Health!

Our article on CO2 as a pollutant was accepted

Good news! Our paper on CO2 as a pollutant (mine, Bierwirth's MacIntyre's and Huang's) has been accepted for publication on "Environmental Science: Advances," a journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. It is not officially published yet, but it will appear soon. In the meantime, if you wish to have a pre-print, just ask me in the comments.

As they say, "All is well that ends well", but it is another example of the incredible inefficiency of the current scientific system. It took six months (!!) to receive an answer from the editors of the journal, with two reviewers requesting just a few marginal changes. Six months for a work that could have been done in a few hours! And we have been lucky, because we were trying to publish something new and interdisciplinary, and that's notoriously a no-no in modern science. But, eventually, we managed to go through the process, and we thank the Club of Rome for supporting the publication costs for this paper.

Unfortunately, it is not just the publishing process that has gone catatonic in science. The whole scientific establishment in climate science is now looking more and more like a beached whale, unable to react in a meaningful way to the propaganda attacks it is receiving. But now, at least, we have a tool to oppose the propaganda campaign waged by the CO2 coalition that aims at tricking us into believing that CO2 is good for plants, and hence for everybody and everything.

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You can read a similar experience, but worse, by Anastassia Makarieva in her recent post on her Substack Blog.

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