Rick Butler

Retired academic general internist. Horse, dog, bike enthusiast. Trained skeptic! I support the deplorables.

[Rick Butler @docmacfou]

@TrueFactsStated You won’t be alone! We will all be rooting for Belgium at my TDS support group meeting tonight!

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@ClimateWarrior7 Catastrophic global warming gave us the Great Lakes! If only these climate change acceptors had been around 10,000 years ago, they might have prevented this cataclysmic glacial melting!

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@TulsiGabbard Stay strong!

[Rick Butler @docmacfou]

@writethewrongs2 And now Al Gore is telling us that we need to prepare for catastrophic global cooling that is the consequence of global warming. Time is running out to save us from his idiocy!

[Rick Butler @docmacfou]

@ClimateWarrior7 Not to worry. Al Gore is now telling us that global warming is going to result in serious and potentially dangerous global cooling. We are so fortunate to have his sage predictions.

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@Damaan4u33 And Iran would have a nuclear bomb, Hamas would be strong, Hezbollah would be bombing Israel, China would control the Panama Canal, narco terrorist would have open access to the US water ways, murder rates in US cites would not be coming down, boarders would be open …

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

CO₂ does not control the climate. It never has. It is not the master dial of the Earth’s temperature, nor is it the architect of our modern anxieties.

Carbon dioxide doesn't cause excessive rainfall, droughts, or the collapse of coastal cliffs. Nor is it responsible for the fractures in human society—terrorism, urban violence, obesity or the drug crisis. These are the products of a human civilization that has survived its own annihilation by the narrowest of margins, persisting for 300,000 years largely through a stroke of cosmic luck.

Yet, for four decades, a relentless climate war has force-fed the world a diet of crisis and warming hysteria. It insists that CO₂ is the root of all evil—that it is our fault and it is the gas's fault. But the truth is indifferent: CO₂ doesn't care. It is not demonic. It is not pollution. It is the foundation of life on Earth.

Without it, Earth would be a silent, sterile rock, inhabited only by bacteria. It was CO₂ that empowered cyanobacteria to unlock the miracle of photosynthesis, slowly flooding the world with the 'waste product' we call oxygen. Before this, the oceans were dark with iron, the skies were not blue, and the world was effectively lifeless. We should be thankful for this gas of life, rather than inventing doomsday scenarios to vilify it.

If we look at the true scale of our planet, the single greatest factor affecting Earth’s geology is tectonic continental flow. This slow, majestic dance of crustal plates shapes our continents and redirects the great ocean currents. This is nature at work.

Today, CO₂ is a mere trace gas at 427 ppm (0.04%). While it is a mighty driver for biology, it is at some of its lowest levels in planetary history. During the Cambrian Period, concentrations were upwards of 4,000 to 8,000 ppm. If those massive levels did not trigger an 'irreversible environmental collapse', it is illogical to assume today’s trace amounts will.

Furthermore, water vapor remains the dominant greenhouse gas, reaching concentrations of 40,000 ppm (4%) in the tropics. It is responsible for the vast majority of the greenhouse effect, yet it is sidelined in favor of the carbon narrative.

History matters. For hundreds of millions of years, CO₂ has not been the deciding factor in global temperature. Homo sapiens evolved during the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, which began 34 million years ago when Antarctica became entombed in ice. Our entire history has unfolded within the Quaternary glaciation, surviving 100,000-year cycles of icehouse conditions.

Almost every meaningful invention, every empire, and every leap in human progress occurred within the brief, warm window of the Holocene. We have never not lived in an ice age. We have survived global upheavals before, but we may not survive a self-imposed collapse into a new medieval dark age driven by ideological fear.

[Rick Butler @docmacfou]

@BreitbartNews Does Mamfani’s budget proposal have a line item for feeding the rats in the NYC subway?

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@ThePrizeForce @jonburkeUK By “profit” I think you mean tax subsidies. There are no profits in wind and solar.

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@BarackObama 30,000 pages of comments in the Federal Register to secure healthcare to preexisting conditions and extend the coverage of dependents? Really?

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@PGtzsche1 Trump denies that the trace gas CO2 is a major driver of global climate trends; of course he recognizes climate variability. He is reversing the insanity and economic destruction of labeling CO2 a pollutant!

[Rick Butler @docmacfou]

@MrAndyNgo @ProfMJCleveland But isn’t he someone’s neighbor?

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@PGtzsche1 Professor, you are loosing credibility by wading into the political cesspool.

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@robinmonotti Yep! Hard to ignore the geological data.

[Rick Butler @docmacfou]

@donwinslow I wonder if this was a case of “suicide by cop?” Why on Earth didn’t she comply with the legal request to get out of her car? She chose to escalate the situation and then drive towards the cop on an icy street. Suicidal behavior!!

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

Katie Hopkins 2025 YEAR IN REVIEW

Strap in and brace brace brace

[Rick Butler @docmacfou]

@CharlieK_news RFKj will be one of the greatest Sec HHS in history. I’m confident he won’t bend or break!

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@TonyShepherd4 Climate variability is real; CO2 driven climate change is a fraud. The gravy train is starting to breakdown!

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@RepSaraJacobs And would you suggest the American tax payer also include the children of the 15-20 million illegal aliens in the “free” child care program?

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@DarrigoMelanie The level of suicidal stupidity is breathtaking!!!