Madeline Brame’s speech at the GOP convention July 16, 2024. Hold on to your seat. Then send it to any Democrat you know.
Madeline Brame’s son, Army Sgt. Hason Correa, was stabbed to death in New York City in 2018. At the time, the Mayor of New York City was Bill de Blasio. The Governor of New York State was Andrew Cuomo. The relevant prosecutor in Hason’s case was Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is criticized by Madeline Brame for allegedly botching the prosecution of her son’s killers.
Dana Point, Calif. – Senator Ted Cruz on Sunday got perhaps the most enthusiastic applause of any Republican presidential candidate to appear before the 450 donors drawn to Southern California for the Koch brothers’ summer conference with a point-blank denial of global warming.
Politico’s Mike Allen moderated a question-and-answer session with the Texas senator, who said of global warming simply, “The data and facts don’t support it.”
The Texas senator, who dominated his time on stage, leaning into Allen and at one point waving off a question from the moderator, went on to deliver a full-throated denial of global warming and a scathing evisceration of its proponents. The riff showcased Cruz in all of his rhetorical glory – relentless, uncompromising, and witty, talking about an issue on which many Republicans have softened. Cruz at times grate on conservatives, but the off-the-cuff riff was something his supporters will surely point to as a high-point of the campaign season and a reason why this is their guy.
Allen asked Cruz if he is concerned by a Boston Globe story published on Saturday that suggests Republicans will pay a price in 2016 for their skepticism about climate change. Cruz’s response? “Not remotely.”
He went on to recall the 1970s panic over global cooling and a coming ice age. “The solution they proposed was massive government control of the economy, the energy sector, and our lives. Then the data disproved it,” he said. ”Then it became global warming. Interestingly enough, the solution was identical: massive government control over the economy, the energy sector, and our lives. Then the data didn’t support it, so they entered theory number three, climate change. Now, to any power-greedy politician, this is the perfect theory, it can never, ever, ever, be disproven, if it gets hotter, if it gets colder, if it gets wetter, if it gets drier.”
The climate issue is in the news once again with the administration set to unveil sweeping new regulations on carbon emissions from power plants. President Obama earlier in the day released a video that warns of “hotter summers, rising sea levels, and extreme weather events.”
Asked whether the president is exaggerating, Cruz said, ”You know, there’s a different word than exaggerating.”
Professor Emeritus of Physics at Princeton University William Happer discussed common misconceptions in climate science, especially the negative reputation given to CO2, on Sky News Australia last year.
“More CO2 is good for the world, it’s not bad for the world. And so, it’s absurd to be trying to reduce CO2,” he said.
Why is CO2 good for the world?
“If you look at the geological history … we’re in a CO2 famine now compared to what’s normal for plants. And just about any plant if you give it more CO2, and a lot more, it will do better … most greenhouses double or triple the amount of CO2 … because the plants grow so much better – the quality of the flowers and the fruits are so much better,” Prof. Happer said.
He further explained that since the Cambrian explosion of life “CO2 levels have gone way down.”
The Cambrian explosion refers to the rapid and sudden emergence of complex life forms on Earth, approximately 541 million to 530 million years ago. It laid the foundation for the incredible diversity of life on Earth, with many modern animal groups emerging during this period.
The high levels of carbon dioxide during the Cambrian period may have played a crucial role in the evolution of life on Earth. Studies suggest that carbon dioxide concentrations during the Cambrian period were much higher than they are today. One study found that CO2 levels were 1,000 parts per million (“ppm”) and R.A. Eggleton’s book ‘A Short History of Climate Change’ stated that CO2 levels may have been as high as 4,000 ppm during the Cambrian period, compared to the current level of around 400 ppm.
“[CO2 levels have] typically been three, four, five times than they are now. And plants are adapted to much higher levels and so they’re harmed in a number of ways by the low levels [of CO2] now,” Prof. Happer explained.
One of the harms to plants with low CO2 levels is photorespiration. Photorespiration is an important aspect of plant metabolism and plays a fundamental role in plant growth and development. When CO2 is low, “the enzyme [plants] use is poisoned by oxygen if there’s not enough CO2, so plants have to devote a lot of their resources to detoxifying this oxygen poisoning [instead of to growth],” he explained.
“If you double CO2 [the plants] don’t have to work as hard to protect themselves from oxygen. That’s the main reason greenhouses work better is that you get rid of the oxygen poisoning – the photorespiration,” he said.
“It’s unbelievable that they’ve managed to turn this beneficial gas, a part of life, into a threat,” he added. He continued:
“They talk about carbon pollution. I can’t imagine what they’re talking about. We’re made of carbon, and we breathe out two pounds of CO2 a day, each of us – that’s 8 billion people.
“Many of them say, well, people are the real problem, it’s not the CO2, we’ve got too many people, and really we can’t have more than a billion people in the world.”
“Freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation.” ~ Ronald Reagan
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“FFO is a free speech watchdog dedicated to restoring America’s promise of a free and open Internet. Through educational reports, legal support, and public policy analysis of developing threats to digital liberties, we seek to provide nonpartisan insights and assistance to all peoples taking a stand for freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and the free exchange of ideas online.”
“FFO publishes original research on the threats to freedom of expression online, especially to political speech on social media. We are committed to supporting American digital freedom and holding our leaders accountable for censoring Americans and their first amendment rights online.”
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Benz previously held the cyber portfolio at the State Department, where he worked on issues related to online freedom and censorship. His expertise in this area has been cited in congressional hearings and promoted by Elon Musk.
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Every voter and citizen will not understand the importance of this video, unfortunately.
This video will be useful here in true blue Hawai’i where I am accosted by “Karens” (male and female) almost every time I leave my property. Literally today, for example, these Karens are protesting about routine multi-national military preparedness drills that are occurring in the central Pacific beyond the visible horizon (curve of the earth) and I am at 1000 feet above sea level. The Karens would go defenseless and have you defenseless.
But, the same Karens will demand that you stand on a designated spot for social distance, mask up, and get boosted to protect them, not you. This is simple hypocrisy, but hypocrisy has no meaning for them because they think they are better than thee.
Now, just for the sake of comparison, imagine for a Rod-Serling-Twilight-Zone-moment a one world government, or a new world order of the type described by the Rockefeller’s Council of Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, George H.W. Bush, George Soros, Mitt Romney, the Clintons, the UK royal family, the UN, the WHO, WEF, the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, globalist bankers, the CIA, etc. This transcendentalist communal utopian peace is the proverbial, Biblical, impossible, Tower of Babel at this point in human history. In other words, peace is impossible except by the détente of real politic (as the video perfectly described) because of the many differences among cultures, morals, ethics and logic… aka diversity.
Unity, strength and will power are necessary. Complacence, apathy and diversity are weaknesses.
Yet diversity, equity and inclusion are held out by most but not all governments as a positive. Hungary, Japan, China, and Islamic countries are outstanding contrary examples. Each opposes cultural diversity and incoming emigration, and by that I intend no criticism or negative.
Karens will say that what I write here is a conspiracy theory; but that is not true. DEI is an example of a psychological defense mechanism known as transference and projection. Karens usually are the most discriminatory of people, preferring their own company or their ilk, but Karen’s project their discrimination on others to defend Karen’s self-identity from guilt, unconsciously transferring to other people their own discriminations which they cannot accept. The mistake is that discrimination is not necessarily wrong, but they think it is wrong. Karens feel guilty about it and that guilt is transferred to others. Projection and transference are self-deceptions, hiding guilt to protect self. Discrimination in protection of values is not necessarily wrong nor a valid reason for guilt. The cultures may be entirely different, and may have been different for a millennium.
Open borders multi-culturalism (i.e., DEI, diversity, equity and inclusion), as broadly practiced in Europe has resulted in weakened societies, loss of culture, loss of languages, suppression or complete loss of history and truth, as well as more violence, more revolutions, and more wars. The diversity of Norther and Southern U.S. states led to civil war. Cultural differences are not resolved. On the other hand, assimilation results in appreciation of different cultures and histories and peaceful co-existence, for example assimilation of Italian and Irish emigrants (not without struggles) into America and Argentina, and assimilation of Maori in New Zealand, in contrast to apartheid Boer and English settlers’ diversity from South African natives prior to the 21st century. What is the difference? The clear difference is the emigrants wanted to assimilate rather than to diversify and remain divided. Politicians divide and build constituencies rather than unity.
DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) is identity politics, that is, a tactic of divide and conquer, regardless the diversity is based in race, religion, income, gender, social rank, vaccination status, etc. DEI is a strategy for politicians to build constituency and separation from their political opponents.
DEI should be severely questioned wherever and whenever it is encountered. Almost always the encounter will be attempted political manipulation.
Europe is belatedly discovering how unbelievably stupid it was to import millions of people from cultures that despise Western values and which often promote hatred toward the people who have let them in.
Hopefully enough Americans wake up to stop this invasion before it overwhelms us as it has most of Europe. Auzzies? Kiwis?
You might re-read the Bible and history of the Tower of Babel. How is WEF different?
There are no nations when there are no borders. There is no sovereignty for individuals when there are no republican nations to protect the rights of the minorities against the government and the majority.
If CO2 gas concentration (or partial pressure) in air doubles, then solubility of CO2 gas in ocean and water doubles. This is water everywhere, i.e., ocean, lakes, soil, plant and animal tissues, and raindrops.
When CO2 gas concentration in air decreases, then CO2 gas solubility in water decreases by the same proportion.
When temperature of the surface of the water increases, then the ratio of CO2 gas emissions from that liquid surface increases compared to CO2 absorption into the liquid surface. The ratio of this partition of a gas between the liquid phase matrix and the gas phase matrix is known as the Henry’s Law coefficient.
Henry’s Law coefficients are also known as Arrhenius Constants, which vary with temperature.
This law was discovered by the many experiments on many combinations of gases and liquids documented by Dr. William Henry in England in the early 1800’s. These are documented in editions of the Royal Society of London (England). One of the peer reviewers of Dr. Henry’s works was John Dalton, who founded our existing system of atomic and molecular weights and some of the Ideal Gas Laws.
TKH = c(l)/c(g)
Where T is surface temperature is in Kelvin
KH = Henry’s Law constant
c(l) = concentration of the unreacted gas in the liquid surface
c(g) = concentration of the unreacted gas in mixture of the gases above the liquid surface.
There are many different uses for Henry’s Law in industry (blood gases, anesthesia, carbonated beverage, ammonia production, etc) so the equation has been derived for different purposes, for example solubility, volatility, and fugacity. Great care must be taken with the units in converting from one form to another. The above dimensionless version of the equation is convenient for CO2 (and other atmospheric gas discussions) because the defacto gold standard for CO2 by NOAA Mauna Loa is micromoles of net CO2 per mole of dried air, a dimensionless ratio, reported as ppm. They do not measure CO2 by volume (ppmv) because the water and water vapor have been removed by freezing which changes the sample volume.
Henry’s Law is a constant at a fixed given temperature for a given combination of gas and liquid because diffusion of a gas in a liquid is a function (inverse of thee square root of the molecular weight of the gas), which is constant.
Gases in atmosphere are always colliding with the surface. The absorption rate relative to the emission rate of the gas from the surface is the KH coefficient, i.e., the Henry’s Law constant. The absorption rate of all gases is inversely proportional to the temperature of the liquid. More gas is absorbed by colder water. Each gas and liquid combination has a unique KH, which is referenced onlinefor a given temperature.
A short video by a University of California chemistry professor, sorry I do not know his name.
The graphic below describes the hydration reaction of CO2 gas and water. As you can see it is a reversible reaction. (Stumm, Werner. Aquatic Chemistry. 1996)
The reaction products of the hydration reaction are not included in the Henry’s Law calculation. Only the unreacted gas is included in the Henry’s Law calculation. The reaction products are bicarbonate ions and carbonic acid ions. The ions become part of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon (DIC) and removed from KH. When the hydration reaction reverses, which it easily does by warming of the surface, CO2 gas is generated in the liquid surface re-entering the KH equation. That reverse reaction product CO2 gas can be emitted from the surface. Surface warming increases the rate of CO2 emission (and all gas emission) from ocean surface. Ocean holds about 50 times more CO2 than atmosphere, with deep water holding more CO2 than surface.
In the following graphic is by Daniel Mazza, PhD, professor of chemistry.
In the following graphic from the attached paper by Roger Cohen, PhD and William Happer, PhD describes the rate of change of Molar concentration of the CO2 hydration reaction products versus rate of change CO2 concentration in air. Note the unreacted CO2 gas dissolved in ocean is the nearly flat green line near the horizontal axis. Most CO2 gas becomes bicarbonate ion (HCO3–). Brackets [ ] indicate stoichiometric amounts.
In the following graphic by Jamal Munshi, PhD, professor of business statistics, we can see that the trend (i.e., rate of change) of CO2 gas concentration in air measured by NOAA Mauna Loa is not correlated with the trend of estimated CO2 generated from estimated fossil fuels usage. Adding CO2 from fossil fuels to air does not increase concentration of CO2 in air, because the increase is offset by an equal increase in solubility of CO2.
The rate of emission from the surface is faster than the rate of absorption because air is much less dense than water and thus migration away from surface is faster in air. There is a lag time between absorption and emission. The lag time varies with temperature of the surface. The late Murry Salby, PhD, professor of atmospheric physics, calculated the average global lag time for CO2 at about 6 months. The graphic below from Werner Stumm, PhD illustrates the non parallel rates of emission and absorption.
In conclusion, higher concentration of CO2 in air would be better for plants and all life on earth, but humans burning fossil fuels contribute almost nothing to the CO2 concentration and any increases or decreases are only temporary until the Henry’s Law constant partition ratio is rebalanced for the local surface area. CO2 in air increases and decreases locally, mostly based on warming and cooling of the local surface, ocean being about 70% of earth’s surface. There is no climate crisis and attempts to reduce CO2 are futile and extremely wasteful of resources.
Compilation of Henry’s law constants (version 5.0.0) for water as solvent By Rolf Sander, PhD. Air Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute of Chemistry, P.O. Box 3060, 55020 Mainz, Germany. Published: 6 October 2023. https://henrys-law.org
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