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Earth's atmosphere hasn't had this much CO2 in millions of years
nbcnews.com ^ | June 5, 2025 | By Denise Chow and Chase Cain

Posted on 06/05/2025 2:49:02 PM PDT by PROCON

New data shows that CO2 levels have broken through 430 parts per million, an indication that human-caused global warming will continue to warp the environment.

Earth’s atmosphere now has more carbon dioxide in it than it has in millions — and possibly tens of millions — of years, according to data released Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and scientists at the University of California San Diego.

For the first time, global average concentrations of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas emitted as a byproduct of burning fossil fuels, exceeded 430 parts per million (ppm) in May. The new readings were a record high and represented an increase of more than 3 ppm over last year.

The measurements indicate that countries are not doing enough to limit greenhouse gas emissions and reverse the steady buildup of C02, which climate scientists point to as the main culprit for global warming.

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To: b4me

Trees are gonna love it.


61 posted on 06/05/2025 8:26:31 PM PDT by CPT Clay
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To: GenXPolymath

Thank you for the info. I never imagined something like that was possible.


62 posted on 06/05/2025 9:01:02 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: Seruzawa

All life will become bigger.
Giant humans and dragonflies with 2ft wingspans.
I will have to get new clothes and bigger bug swatter.


63 posted on 06/06/2025 12:35:44 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: PROCON
This article is straight out the back end of a Bull.
64 posted on 06/06/2025 3:49:48 AM PDT by 55Ford
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To: PROCON

New data shows that CO2 levels have broken through 430 parts per million, an indication that human-caused global warming will continue to warp the environment.

These idiots don’t stop to ask “Why was it so high in the past?”, do they?

What made it so high then, and what lowered it?

Maybe the Earth is a ecological system that self-regulates?


65 posted on 06/06/2025 6:20:18 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: GenXPolymath

Antarctica data? Meaningless.
There were no dinosaurs belching and farting there.


66 posted on 06/06/2025 6:46:18 AM PDT by Bobbyvotes (Only thing that scares me now is my age number. Is am older than Biden, but in very good health!)
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To: Openurmind

Comma vs period policeman here. It was more than 125 years ago.


67 posted on 06/06/2025 7:31:39 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

Are we all dead as yet????


68 posted on 06/06/2025 7:56:34 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: crusty old prospector

Also next to a forest that produces O2 that messes up the measurements when the wind blows the “wrong” way.


69 posted on 06/06/2025 8:18:28 AM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: minnesota_bound

Dragonflies are ‘good’ bugs - they eat bad ones. Don’t swat them.

But hundreds of millions of years ago, we did have some as big as you suggest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meganisoptera


70 posted on 06/06/2025 8:39:13 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: minnesota_bound

Good thing I stocked up on 12ga 3’ Goose ammo. Them giant dragonflies gonna be hurting. It’s the foot long locusts that worry me.


71 posted on 06/06/2025 10:09:20 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: hal ogen

Some organs within, for sure.


72 posted on 06/06/2025 11:54:37 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Jamestown1630

Will also need a bigger bug zapper.
Powered by 440 volts.


73 posted on 06/06/2025 12:10:29 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: rfp1234

College sources say 6,000, but I have older sources that go much higher than that. At 10K PPM, it would still be a trace gas and cause an explosion in plant growth and Oxygen levels. I don’t think man can effect it one iota.


74 posted on 06/06/2025 12:41:37 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts
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To: minnesota_bound

An arthropod with a two-foot wingspan might be a delicacy - like lobster.


75 posted on 06/06/2025 2:24:42 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

You will eat ze bugs!


76 posted on 06/06/2025 2:33:51 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: PROCON

Unfalsifiable. All evidence supports the hypothesis. None can contradict.


77 posted on 06/06/2025 2:38:29 PM PDT by MortMan (Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Against Alliteration Abuse)
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To: GingisK
lol, yeah I was in a hurry... Had to get back to the Musk/Trump event arena... 125K before our current was the middle of the previous Interglacial. The Temp and CO2 both were higher than during our current Interglacial. Chart source NOAA Ice Core studies.
78 posted on 06/06/2025 3:10:34 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Openurmind
The Temp and CO2 both were higher than during our current Interglacial

There is an abundance of people in the wrong places who won't listen to facts. Facts don't allow them to pursue their own agenda. With that sort of leadership, our civilization will be a blast for future archeologists to sift out of the dirt.

79 posted on 06/06/2025 6:05:35 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Openurmind

I’m just happy to hear that you haven’t gone Euroweenie with the period glyph.


80 posted on 06/06/2025 6:06:47 PM PDT by GingisK
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