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Hydroxyl Radicals Information is Well Studied and Using Them to Fight Climate Change is Wise

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The chemistry of atmospheric hydroxyl radicals (OH•) is well-established and extensively studied in the field of atmospheric chemistry. The role of hydroxyl radicals as the primary oxidant in the atmosphere has been recognized for several decades. Their reactivity and ability to initiate a wide range of chemical reactions make them crucial in controlling the concentrations and lifetimes of many atmospheric pollutants.

The formation of hydroxyl radicals in the atmosphere primarily occurs through the reaction of ozone (O3) with water vapor (H2O) in the presence of sunlight. This reaction produces two hydroxyl radicals:

O3 + H2O → 2OH•

Once formed, hydroxyl radicals rapidly react with various atmospheric species, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs), nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur dioxide (SO2), carbon monoxide (CO), and methane (CH4), among others. These reactions initiate a cascade of chemical processes that lead to the removal of pollutants and the formation of secondary pollutants such as ozone, organic nitrates, and aerosols.

The chemistry of hydroxyl radicals involves complex reaction networks, including hydrogen abstraction, addition, and substitution reactions. The rate constants and reaction mechanisms of these reactions have been extensively studied and characterized through laboratory experiments, field measurements, and theoretical calculations.

To investigate the behavior of hydroxyl radicals in the atmosphere, researchers employ various techniques such as field campaigns, laboratory simulations, and modeling studies. Advanced instrumentation, such as laser-induced fluorescence and mass spectrometry, allows for the detection and measurement of hydroxyl radical concentrations in ambient air.

The understanding of hydroxyl radical chemistry is crucial for atmospheric scientists, as it helps in assessing the atmospheric lifetimes of pollutants, predicting the formation of air pollutants such as ozone and aerosols, and developing strategies to mitigate air pollution and its impact on human health and the environment.

Overall, the chemistry of atmospheric hydroxyl radicals is a well-established and continuously evolving field of study, driven by the importance of hydroxyl radicals in understanding and managing air quality and climate-related issues.

Hydroxyl radicals (OH•) are highly reactive molecules that play a crucial role in the removal of pollutants from the atmosphere. They act as a natural cleansing agent by initiating a series of chemical reactions that break down and remove various pollutants present in the air.

When hydroxyl radicals react with pollutants, such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and other harmful gases, they initiate a process known as oxidation. During oxidation, hydroxyl radicals transfer an oxygen atom to the pollutant molecule, causing it to undergo a chemical transformation.

The relative abundance of pollutants in the air determines the order in which they react with hydroxyl radicals. Hydroxyl radicals react with pollutants based on their concentration or molar fraction in the air. Pollutants that are more abundant or have higher concentrations will have a higher likelihood of encountering hydroxyl radicals and undergoing oxidation.

In the context of removing pollutants from a cubic kilometer (KM) of ground-level air, hydroxyl radicals will react with pollutants in proportion to their relative abundances. For example, if a certain pollutant is present in higher concentrations in the air, it will have a higher chance of encountering hydroxyl radicals and being oxidized compared to pollutants present in lower concentrations.

This relative abundance apportionment ensures that hydroxyl radicals efficiently target and remove pollutants based on their prevalence in the air. By reacting with a wide range of pollutants, hydroxyl radicals help to break them down into less harmful substances or convert them into forms that are easier to remove through other atmospheric processes, such as rainfall or deposition onto surfaces.

Overall, the use of hydroxyl radicals in removing pollutants from the air follows a natural process in which the pollutants are oxidized based on their relative abundance, allowing for effective purification of the surrounding environment.

Paul Beckwith Details the Carbon Footprint of the Wealthy Who Plan to Leave You Behind as They Are Insulated

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The politicians must be told to limit the wealthy’s carbon wastage. Please write your politician and encourage them to limit the wealthy’s terrible planetary stewardship and destructive use of carbon on their yachts and jets. We are in an emergency. This is the only way it’s going to change- with new laws and real leadership. We should not have or elect politicians who do not have the balls to govern these people. In fact, Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland should have been all over this policy 5 or more years ago in Canada. The fact that they have not indicates that they do pander to the wealthy. The pandering must stop and be replaced with real leadership and real governance because the wealth is being mis-spent to the peril of humanity. It is actually criminal negligence on the part of politicians as much as the criminal carbon emissions offences the wealthy are committing. We need to understand that carbon needs to be a controlled substance for the foreseeable future and penalize its excessive emission through law.

Viva Cundliffe, PhD abd

Calling The Climate Decision Makers

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The Climate Technology Decision Makers Human Flaws are Failing Humanity in Its Time of Greatest Need

As we published earlier, the next 4 years from Q2 2023 onward are going to be very much more difficult for humanity with respect to significantly worsening climate consequences because the hydroxyl is now inundated and allowing methane a free increase, and the onset of El Nino warming is going to combine with this in a way that is unprecedented. We already see it in the ocean temperature record of 2023.

We absolutely must put a stop to the laziness and cowardice that we are encountering in the Climate Technology funding world. One-dimensional solutions are being selected over the most comprehensive climate solution, which is a controlled oxidation event that would promote and secure improving biodiversity, including improving plant and mineral diversity, increasing Earth’s albedo, cleaner air, calmer weather, and normalized rain. The decision makers are shrinking from funding this procedure.

In this letter, we are again pointing to the abundant peer-reviewed literature on the Earth’s critically important hydroxyl radical, and its roles in pollutant removal, sanitation and precipitation that have made the Earth so habitable. All of this is now pretty much lost, in case you hadn’t noticed.

There is also abundant peer reviewed literature, which we list some of below, describing the deeply studied and verified paleo-chemistry work that the whole geology world has taken the time to investigate and publish on.

At ReductionTech Inc, we are no longer going to allow decision makers to fool themselves into thinking that not enough is known about oxidation, and continue to shrink from funding even a partial scale up of an affordable and simple mitigation technology to address the global situation. The global situation not only includes overheating, and the sooner that this is acknowledged by leaders, the better.

It is these climate mitigation technology decision makers sacred responsibility to be fully abreast of the planetary reality that is upon humanity, and finance to address that reality as comprehensively and efficiently as possible, without just cowardly cobbling together a bunch of one-dimensional and one gas removal solutions in hope for a collective marginal improvement. The decision makers are currently making the climate disaster more expensive and convoluted. There is absolutely no excuse for this happening, and we must insist that they be tasked with performing a better science review than what they have provided.

We assert that they must not shrink from the overwhelming scientific evidence that backs up what we are proposing and projecting for a scaled controlled hydroxyl dispersal procedure. We think that is simply boils down to these people not being abreast of the literature, and it is their sacred duty to have a solid familiarity with it, and are providing the references below to support the needed reading.

There is a lot of open literature about the hydroxyl radical in the modern atmosphere as well, that any competent researcher can locate.

We ask that decision makers more concertedly utilize our referenced materials because they are patently clear about the chemistry aspects, and any generalist should be able to see the deep merit and values in the very existence of the hydroxyl radical. We cannot live without it, frankly, and it is now losing to the record pollution levels. ReductionTech is the only team with a plan to support life- sustaining hydroxyl levels. Please don’t shrink from reviewing this important and life-saving science.

The realistic hit list of what is going wrong globally, and what a hydroxyl mitigation can do includes again: decisive global cooling, improving biodiversity, including improving plant and mineral diversity, increasing Earth’s albedo, cleaner air, calmer weather, better air quality and normalized rain.

Thank you for sharing this advisory and thank you for reviewing this critical science urgently.

Viva Cundliffe, CEO

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The next four years 2023-2027 are going to be extremely difficult for humanity

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NOTICE and Q2 2-23 Climate Mitigation Policy Prediction From ReductionTech Inc

April 10, 2023

Based on our experiences with several different funding decisionmakers in the climate technology field, we are issuing a prediction about what is going to transpire with respect to climate solution finance in light of the critical next four year El Nino period.

Firstly this El Nino period is likely to be very serious and damaging, with a major uptick in death and property losses partially due to El Nino itself, but also because the hydroxyl radical is now fully inundated, as evidenced by the growing increase in methane levels, which is a SURE SIGN that the Earth’s hydroxyl safety system is now overwhelmed.

We see that funding decisions are not appropriately researching, understanding and recognizing the natural system opportunities, and this will result in delay that will cause losses out of the control of ReductionTech Inc, who seeks to scale a controlled hydroxyl dispersal to create an oxidation event that will halt global warming while improving biodiversity, including improving plant and mineral diversity, increasing Earth’s albedo, cleaner air, calmer weather, and normalized rain.

We are forced to advise all of the citizens of the Earth that all of the above mentioned planetary improvements are indeed very badly needed, and we offer a scalable and affordable dispersal technology that provides and oxidation event under controlled conditions at scale that can deliver them.

Unfortunately our experience with decisionmakers in the climate mitigation field is that they cannot seem to embrace the deep and obvious body of science literature that supports the offered approach, and find a way to back the proposed procedure. The literature on this geochemistry is abundant, and we unfortunately cannot force decisionmakers to perform the research that we point them to that would remove their hesitancy.

We believe that our job is to keep warning humanity about these shortcomings, so that we can find a faster path to funding a superior, clean, affordable, scalable residue free mutli-disaster mitigation that is avaliable from us.

The many decisonmakers that we have encountered have been clearly advised. This warning serves as additional advice. Until we have decsionmakers that can apprehend the referenced science, trust the nature based chemistry approach, humanity will tragically be forced to struggle longer than necessary.

I trust that this issue is clear, and I call on decisionmakers to be more proactive in better understanding the Earth’s ecosystem, before it is too late.