Carbon dioxide not existential threat

OPINION:

When will common sense finally laugh “climate change” out of existence (“Democrats roll out wish list of climate change executive orders for Biden,” Web, July 19)?

As every scientist (honest or otherwise) knows very well, this planet’s number-one greenhouse gas is water vapor — not carbon dioxide. Water vapor outranks carbon dioxide by a hundredfold. It’s why greenhouses are greenhouses. But you don’t need to see one to grasp that. Just look at the clouds overhead.

Now try to guess a cloud’s carbon dioxide content. If the atmospheric level were anything like an existential threat, it would make clouds fizzy and sparkling like soda pop. (Water absorbs carbon dioxide, and the result is carbonic acid, which is fizz.) People who live at altitudes high enough to be in a passing cloud (say, in the Smokies or the Rockies) would have to wear gas masks. Their effervescent air would make them gag and retch and their eyes would water, much like the “woke” contingent when faced with God’s truth.

Next, try to imagine how we’d manage without fossil fuels. Would the president fly in an Air Force one festooned with solar panels and little wind turbines on its wingtips to help fuel its jet engines? President Biden might. I wouldn’t. It’s common sense.

JOHN S. MASON JR.

Irvington, Virginia