Green conspiracy theory against nitrogen?

Vincent J. Curtis

25 July 22

RE: Green Health Care.  Letter to the editor by Dr. Stephen Brown, staff anesthesiologist, William Osler Health System

The political Left knows how to organize, and when it’s motivated the organization goes far and deep.  Don’t call me a conspiracy theorist when there really is a conspiracy.

Take the offering by Dr. Stephen Brown who writes of the efforts to reduce “volatile anesthetics” in operating rooms, as if these contributed significantly to global warming.  What he’s talking about is nitrous oxide.  Funny thing, but the knock on chemical fertilizer is that they emit nitrous oxide, a “greenhouse gas,” and therefore must be abolished.  The trouble and hunger in Sri Lanka, and the farmer’s strike in Holland pertain to the elimination of chemical fertilizers out of fear for their emission of nitrous oxide.  Prime Minister Trudeau wants chemical fertilizer use in Canada to be reduced by thirty percent out of fear of nitrous oxide. (a.k.a. "nitrogen" in the parlance of the scientifically illiterate.)

From the operating room to farmer’s fields around the world, a strange war on nitrous oxide has suddenly erupted.

And it’s so stupid!  Nitrous oxide is present in the atmosphere at a concentration of 340 ppb, as in billion, and is growing at the rate of 1 ppb per year.  In 660 years it will reach 1 ppm.  The effect of nitrous oxide on global warming is negligible and will remain so for centuries.  But we’re going to deprive people of food and let them suffer in pain out of an elitist, stupid concern for its effect on global warming?

There’s a conspiracy afoot, and it’s a really stupid one.

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