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            Too many people have told us lately that breathing through masks is bad for us, carbon dioxide supposedly being bodily waste.   Our bodies have several organs that expel waste: the urinary system; the lower intestine; and sweat glands.   Lungs do not expel toxic waste, mostly just unused air, carbon dioxide and water.   Carbon dioxide should not be maligned as waste; it plays a vital role in the body’s ability to get oxygen to its tissues.   Hemoglobin grabs and holds oxygen tightly to carry it through the body.   It can’t let go of oxygen until the blood is sufficiently acid with carbon dioxide.   This is how oxygen gets to where it is most needed. Sinuses regulate how much air goes in and out with erectile tissues that inflate and narrow the airways when they detect too much smoke and dust.   They filter out pollutants and germs with mucus that is swept down to the throat to be swallowed.   Th...

Once again, someone has asked me what my credentials are to argue about #TraceGasWarming theory. "What kind of advanced science degree do you have?" he asks. This is a question one gets from those who have no science degree and probably took few science classes. They take on faith whatever is said by "scientists," except when scientists run up against one of their prejudices, like GMOs or Roundup. This is the fallacy of arguing from authority, and I run into it also from spokespeople for the theory that trace gases are destroying our climate, when I challenge their science. The last one said that she believes what the climate scientists tell us, a common response. One of the most famous of these non-credentialed activists, Bill McKibben, told me, "Carbon dioxide is the difference between Venus and Mars!" That's a funny claim, considering that they both have around 96-97% CO2 in their atmospheres. Venus just happens to be a lot closer to the sun tha...