Are raised CO2 levels in the atmosphere sending us all around the bend?

As I've mentioned on here numerous times, my Dad was an RAF bomber pilot. Perhaps one of the stories he told me about his RAF training which stuck longest in my mind, was when they were trained about the effects of hypoxia(lack of oxygen). They were all put in a tank and told to write their name continually on a piece of paper, whilst the tank was decompressed, to the point where they passed out. When Dad was let out, he was amazed to see how his handwriting had deteriorated as there was less and less oxygen in his brain. They were also told that when submarine crews were stranded on sunken subs, and the oxygen ran out, they'd go bonkers as the CO2 levels rose and the oxygen was used. CO2 gives you feelings of euphoria and irrationality (which is why some people use strangulation to increase C02 levels in sexual activity). You may wonder what all of this has to do with the price of fish?

Well one of the side effects of global warming is rising atmospheric CO2 levels. Could it be that the seemingly inexplicably stupid events happening in the world are down to CO2 muddling our brain? Not a day goes by without some new level of lunacy being reached. Seemingly rational people suddenly start acting completely out of character. I must confess that I'm not entirely surprised when someone like Donald Trump does something that seems to me completely idiotic. I am perhaps more surprised that the USA, a nation of around 300 million people decided that the two best people to choose between for the job were Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. During the election campaign, I told a mate, who is rather left leaning that Trump would win. He said "How could you possibly think Harris is worse than Trump?". I replied "I don't but she is the dullest and most uninspiring speaker I've ever seen, Trump is a great salesman and his pitch is that if you vote for me, your life will be amazing". Harris simply didn't get how powerful that was. But that wasn't her fault. It was the fault of the Democrats who failed to find a Clinton or an Obama, who could also make people feel positive about the future.

If you are a political party, be it the Democrats or the Monster Raving Loonies, if you want to win, your job is to find someone that people actually like. Interestingly, The Republicans didn't find Trump. He simply decided that he was going to be their leader and then President. Back in 2016, the Republicans simply didn't know how to stop him. Once he was in, he took the party over. Make no mistake, the Republicans are no longer the party of Abraham Lincoln. But that is democracy. You don't always get what you want. Trump is a product of a broken system in the USA. In some ways, I see Trump as a modern day Kamal Ataturk, the leader who modernised Turkey in the 1920's and 1930's. Ataturk changed Turkey forever. The biggest problem for Turkey was that he was such a charasmatic leader that every leader since has been in his shadow. The Republicans will not find another Trump. I won't live long enough to see, but the history books in 100 years will be fascinating. Once everyone with an axe to grind has passed and Trump can be properly evaluated based on his record, I'd be fascinated to see what they say. I watched Trump speaking in Saudi Arabia yesterday. I was shocked. He actually made what I thought was a brilliant speech. I personally think that selling arms to a regime such as the Saudi's is completely immoral, but looking at it through Trumps eyes, where he doesn't care about their human rights record, it was a masterpiece. I almost wondered whether it was a Trump lookalike delivering it. It was coherant and would have stroked all of the right buttons for his audience.

We are in a new world. We are in a world where the good guys are on the run. We are in a world where the arms dealers, the despots and the profiteers are running the show. Even in the UK, Sir Keir Starmer, a liberal lefty lawyer, who became Prime Minister to undo years of Tory misrule, with a massive majority, has started quoting Enoch Powell in speeches.

I cannot possibly understand how we have got here. Is the CO2 in the atmosphere slowly sending us all bonkers? I am struggling to find a better explanation. A mate, who is involved in Friends of the Earth, told me a couple of years ago, that the secret cabal who run the world, know it is completely f@@ked and they are running it into the ground so they can enjoy the last few years at the expense of the rest of us. I thought he was bonkers, but maybe, he had a point.