Mike Chevin

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

The relentlessly harsh climate machine declared that rising CO₂ would lead to droughts, floods and food scarcity.

These fears were based almost entirely on worst-scenario computer models. This is not how it's turning out.

NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellites reveal an unexpected new dawn. Between 10% and 40% of all historical crop yield improvements since 1940 are directly due to rising CO₂. For wheat, soybeans, and corn, the atmospheric fuel injection has driven a massive portion of the modern 'green revolution'.

For C3 crops, like wheat, rice and potatoes, the extra CO₂ has been an instant stimulant, driving growth and expanding biomass. CO₂ allows leaf pores (stomata) to stay partially closed, reducing water loss by up to 40%. In dry broadacre zones, this creates unprecedented natural drought resilience.

This data comes from a landmark study by the National Bureau of Economic Research, which used satellite tracking to measure the exact impact of CO₂ fertilisation on broadacre field crops.

CO₂ may have been painted as an agent of future crisis by the climate cavalcade. Yet science shows once again that this miracle molecule is the world's primary engine of agricultural abundance.

[Mike Chevin @latecut4]

@HWarlow .....and here's one I took on a misty autumn morning.

[Mike Chevin @latecut4]

@London_W4 The sketch might have been even better if you had finished it before you started the second bottle. 😂

[Mike Chevin @latecut4]

@fanofUnited88 @BestWesternGB Boycotting is what needs doing - but if the boycott is successful be careful of unintended consequences. There also needs to be a plan to prevent them being repurposed as mega sized HMOs. Anyone got any ideas?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Chloe woke up at 6:45am and immediately felt proud of herself.

She had, after all, not eaten a single animal product in four years. The planet was healing. She could feel it.

6:52am - Applied her morning SPF. The SPF contains beeswax. Chloe does not know this. Moving on.

7:10am - Breakfast: a smoothie containing avocado. The avocado was grown in Michoacán, Mexico, on land where a pine forest was until 2019. It required approximately 320 litres of water to produce. It was flown to the UK. Chloe sprinkled hemp seeds on top. The hemp seeds came from China. Chloe felt connected to the earth.

8:00am - Got dressed. Polyester leggings, derived from crude oil. A bamboo top that was processed using carbon disulphide in a Taiwanese chemical plant. Trainers with a recycled plastic upper that sheds microplastics into waterways with every wash. Chloe's outfit today had a higher carbon footprint than a ribeye steak. Chloe does not know this either.

9:30am - Posted on Instagram about choosing compassion. The phone was manufactured in a Shenzhen factory using cobalt from the DRC, where mining operations have displaced local communities and killed an unknowable number of small mammals, reptiles, and insects. The algorithm served Chloe an ad for oat milk. Chloe liked it.

12:00pm - Lunch: tofu stir-fry. The soy was grown in Brazil. Brazil produces more soy than almost any country on earth. The primary reason is soybean oil: one of the most widely used industrial and culinary oils on the planet. The soymeal left over after oil extraction is fed to livestock as a byproduct. Chloe is aware of the livestock connection and finds it outrageous. She has not looked into why the soy was grown in the first place. The answer is the oil. The oil is in her salad dressing.

1:30pm - Drove to the garden centre. The car runs on petrol. Chloe has a Just Stop Oil sticker on the bumper. This is not being commented on further.

3:00pm - Bought a monstera. The monstera was grown in a Dutch greenhouse using natural gas heating. Chloe put it next to the pothos that is slowly poisoning the neighbourhood cats.

6:00pm - Dinner: pasta with cashew cream sauce. The cashews were processed in Vietnam, often by workers in conditions that would prompt significant commentary if they were in an abattoir.

8:00pm - Watched a documentary about factory farming. Wept. Posted about it. Caption: "We have to do better."

Chloe is, by every measure she has chosen to measure by, doing brilliantly.

By some of the others, the picture is more complicated.

Chloe has not chosen to measure by those.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Repost if you agree!

[Mike Chevin @latecut4]

@CcibChris I believe the correct collective name for a group of Phantoms is a Rumpus.

[Mike Chevin @latecut4]

@JChimirie66677 @sprolliehouse @RulesVagina @RedfishRoots If the navy's mine sweepers are not used to sweep mines what is the point of having any? Presumably their crews expect to be put in harms way at some time. It comes with the job. Someone explain to Starmer.

[Mike Chevin @latecut4]

@UK_Needs_Reform Councils don't want to make durable repairs to potholes. It's a nice steady number: the public report where they are, lots of admin staff sort sending a couple of guys out with a bag of cold asphalt and instructions not to use their initiative and do any others. Jobs for knobs.

[Mike Chevin @latecut4]

@Osint613 👍

[Mike Chevin @latecut4]

@KTHopkins All these right wingers are doing good things but in isolation. Park your egos guys and find a way of uniting the right. If you don't at the general election the right vote will be split and we'll finish up with another left led clown show.

[Mike Chevin @latecut4]

@HousewifePolish @PositivFuturist @GamblingPrince1 So far as I can see it applies equally to their back benches as well.

[Mike Chevin @latecut4]

@HannasWorldUK17 @RupertLowe10 @realDonaldTrump Great guy with all the right ideas but he is flawed. He is a one man band and how ever good you are you need not just a team to run the country but one you can delegate to and be able to trust to deliver without having to micro manage them.

[Mike Chevin @latecut4]

@PolitlcsUK Hooray! Long may his boycott continue.

[Mike Chevin @latecut4]

@redpilldispensr What is the flag being flown from the ensign staff on Gates yacht? Looks suspiciously like the red ensign. Surely it's not registered in the UK?

[Mike Chevin @latecut4]

@SamanthaTaghoy Pope Leo just called out Islamist violence against Christians worldwide. Anyone heard anything from the Church of England? Anyone.......?

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Jonathan Edwards’ 18.29m triple jump world record still stands after more than 30 years.

[Simon_Scissorhands @crypto_dragonz]

Why are you ferrying them into Britain ?
Everyone Repost let's get @RNLI to respond !!

@RNLI Maritime law allows illegal entrants arriving by sea to be returned to their point of departure, as long as no genuine risk to life exists.
France is a safe country. Returning migrants there does not breach international law.

[David Bellamy 🇬🇧 #ReformUK @OtherBellamy]

Make 18th January ‘David Bellamy Day’, in honour of my namesake (no relation) who bravely called out the climate change catastrophe scam and was cancelled for it.

“Poppycock” he called it

RT if you agree

R.I.P David Bellamy (18 January 1933 - 11 December 2019)

@TiceRichard

[Mike Chevin @latecut4]

@StevenJNorris @benonwine For the sake of you and yours - wake up and take your blinkers off!