CO2's hydrophilia is a dessicant. It strips moisture from airborne particulates or living tissue. It forms CO2/H2O clusters called, herein, "frequency resonant quantum" (FRQ's). One can see how CO2 dessicates clouds from satellite photos when a hurricane approaches a coast--see Hurricanes for Dummies. Due to dessication, the lower left rear quadrant becomes invisible or transparent. The particulates later in right quadrants attractswater as the hurricane rotates over the open ocean. In satellite videos, one can see the development of cloud "pimples" that become a solid could blanket.The water saturated CO2 no long soaks up water akin to how a blood-gorged bedbug no longer bites. The important take-away is that moisture density increases which makes the hurricane more powerful. Whereas hurricanes are nice mid-ocean donuts, coming ashore they look like someone took a big bite in the lower left quadrant(YouTub vid) . This obvious dessicating moisture-stripping explains how increased CO2 increases droughts. Besides the atmosphere, CO2 is a dessicant to plant and animal life. Consider how a moist basement is a magnet for bugs and molds. A dehumifier keeps a basement dry and relatively free of unwanted critters and growth. (There are many misleading TV ads on basement moisture. It the solutions are basically painting over a problem area. The moisture does not go away. It is channeled into brick or concrete walls that soften and weakens the walls thereby increasing wall cracks and sinking. A dehumidier is cheaper and better than a multi-thousand dollar cure that is worse than the original problem.) Rising CO2 levels are dessicating bees, acting as an environmental dehumidifier. Bees simply are leaving their hives in search of a less dry milieu--a futile effort in a world where politicians, businessmen and igknowamesus want to grow the economy for more jobs. Every percent increase in GDP is matched a corresponding increase in atmospheric dessicating CO2. (As homeowner I had a 4,000 square foot garden. As a climate change researcher, over a period of two weeks, I would alternate misting for an hour each morning. On non-misting days, it took two to three times longer to count 20 bees visiting my garden. Garden advice: If you want to increase plant diseases, broadcast to water your plants. Better to "drip or skip.") While pesticides can cause localized bee colony harm, CO2 weakens a bee's metabolism anywhere and everywhere. CO2 makes bees more susceptible to invasive diseases. Bees are vanishing from areas where pesticides are not used. In both animals and plants, the more evolved species are suffering from rising CO2 while the more primitive life forms are thriving, e.g., poison ivy, kudzu, bedbugs, etc. This evolutionary favoritism of CO2 toward the more primitive plants is present in cereal grains like oats. The ratio of carbohydrates to proteins has shifted sufficiently in recent years to cause food manufacturers to modify machinery because proteins are a physical lubricant relative to carbohydrates. Think about the difference bedtween biting into steak versus into hardtack. Those who claim we cannot afford to slow the economy because of the financial costs igknow the cost of rising CO2 on the social, economic and political structures. Bees pollinate 40% or more of our food. If no bees then more food price inflation. In summary, bees are primarily dying because of rising CO2 levels--the fluid of life is being sucked out of them. Also see Bees Today, Clouds Tomorrow for lengthier, more documented essay. |
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