425 ppm. That's the latest CO₂ reading atop Mauna Loa – a trace gas so "dangerous" that governments tax your breath while forcing you to marinate in 1,000+ ppm during COVID lockdowns. Buy an Amazon monitor, and your living room will clock 600–800 ppm; bake bread or feed a family, and you're pushing 1,200 ppm. Step into a stuffy office at 2,500 ppm, and you'll get a headache, from mould spores, not the "pollutant" that makes plants explode with growth. Yet here we are, with governments across the West jacking up your heating bills to "save" us from a gas that's been 10x higher during ice ages and still saw dinosaurs thrive.

The science is clear: CO₂ lags temperature in ice cores, not leads it. Models scream apocalypse, but reality yawns: Greenland's ice sheet? Still there. Polar bears? Booming. Hurricanes? No trend. Crop yields? Optimised at 1,000+ ppm – we're starving plants at 425. But the hysteria rages on. Why? Follow the money. CO₂ isn't a crisis; it's a trillion-dollar industry built on fear, guilt, and carbon credits.

No CO₂ panic = no funding. That's why dissenters get Ofcom investigations while mass immigration champions get podcasts. Question a future prediction? Heresy. Deny a past genocide? Edgy.

The Medieval Precedent: Y1K Hysteria 2.0

Norman Cohn's The Pursuit of the Millennium nails it: In AD 1000, Europe went nuts. Flagellants, pogroms, "end times" cults – all because a round number flipped. No Protestants yet, but the same apocalyptic DNA lives in today's climate clergy. Protestant nations (UK, Germany, Canada) lead the Net Zero charge; Catholic ones (Brazil, Mexico) shrug and build coal plants. China? One new coal generator weekly. India? Biweekly. Indonesia? Mining coal like it's 1899. They're not buying the guilt trip – because they're not selling carbon credits.

CO₂: The Miracle Molecule, Not the Monster

Plants love it: +20–30% biomass since 1980 at 425 ppm. NASA: Earth is greening at a rate of two Australias per decade.

No warming trend: UAH satellite data shows 0.14°C/decade since 1979 – within natural variability.

Lags, not leads: 800-year lag in ice cores. CO₂ is a feedback, not a driver.

Real drivers? Solar cycles, ocean currents (AMO/PDO), volcanic aerosols, orbital wobbles. But those don't come with a tax.

The Guilt Game: Blame the West, Fund the Rest

UK and US get demonised for the Industrial Revolution – which doubled life expectancy and slashed infant mortality 95%. Meanwhile:

US absorbs more CO₂ than it emits (thanks, flyover forests).

China emits 2x the US, builds coal like it's going out of style.

Yet COP30 jetted in 10,000 delegates to lecture you about your gas stove.

The 50-Year Doomsday Clock: Still at 2 Minutes to Midnight:

1970s: Ice age coming.

1980s: Acid rain apocalypse.

1990s: Ozone hole Armageddon.

2000s: Polar bears drowning (population up 400% since).

2020s: 1.5°C "threshold" (a political number, not science).

Cohn's millenarians burned out by 1037. Climate hysteria? Peaked in 2019. Give it 11 more years – by 2036, we'll laugh at windmill graveyards and "CO₂ sequestration" scams.

The Real Solution: Plant More, Tax Less

Want to "fix" CO₂? Stop demonising it. Reforest, innovate, adapt. CO₂ at 1,000 ppm = famine-proof crops. We're not running out of food – we're running out of common sense.

The hysteria isn't about science. It's about control, cash, and cult. Follow the money – it leads straight to the grifters in private jets.

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-the-co2-hysteria-because-thats-where-the-money-is/