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Greenhouse gas levels in atmosphere hit new high: UN
Agence France-Presse ^ | 22 Nov 2018

Posted on 11/22/2018 6:36:03 PM PST by Olog-hai

The levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the main driver of climate change, have hit a new record high, the UN said Thursday, warning that the time to act was running out.

Ahead of the COP 24 climate summit in Poland next month, top United Nations officials are again trying to raise the pressure on governments to meet the pledge of limiting warming to the less than two degrees Celsius, enshrined in the 2015 Paris accord.

“Without rapid cuts in CO2 and other greenhouse gases, climate change will have increasingly destructive and irreversible impacts on life on Earth,” the head of the World Meteorological Organization Petteri Taalas said in a statement. “The window of opportunity for action is almost closed.”

In an open letter to all states ahead of COP24, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet warned of cataclysmic consequences if the world does not reverse course. “Entire nations, ecosystems, peoples and ways of life could simply cease to exist,” she said, citing evidence that nations are not on track to meet the commitments made in Paris.

US President Donald Trump, who pulled his government out of the Paris agreement, again on Thursday appeared to cast doubt on climate science. “Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS — Whatever happened to Global Warming?” he said in a tweet.

Asked to respond to Trump, deputy WMO chief Elena Manaenkova told reporters that the science underpinning global warming was ”unequivocal,” without challenging the US leader directly. …

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To: Olog-hai

Perfect. The solar minimum is right around the corner. We’ll be nice and cozy.


21 posted on 11/22/2018 7:08:48 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: neverevergiveup

More like lies stated as dogma.


22 posted on 11/22/2018 7:12:08 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Let’s IGNORE that gigantic star (a tremendously powerful fusion reactor) that has a predictable cycle that lasts decades and another cycle that is measured in centuries.

Let’s blame it all on mankind. It’s easier than thinking


23 posted on 11/22/2018 7:15:16 PM PST by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: Olog-hai
→ Huh ???

"The last time the Earth experienced a comparable concentration of CO2 was 3-5 million years ago, when the temperature was 2-3°C warmer," Taalas said.
24 posted on 11/22/2018 7:18:03 PM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: piytar

Exactly!


25 posted on 11/22/2018 7:24:00 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: Olog-hai
Asked to respond to Trump, deputy WMO chief Elena Manaenkova told reporters that the science underpinning global warming was ”unequivocal,”

Ya, that's what they said during the Salem Witch Trials too.

26 posted on 11/22/2018 7:26:25 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Democrats AND FLAKE AND CORKER Hate America)
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To: Olog-hai

Yeah? And just what did the UN use to measure it with?
They’re as full of shi_t as a Christmas goose. Stuff it, UN and GTFO of our country and don’t come back.


27 posted on 11/22/2018 7:31:08 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: stylin19a

Prehistoric SUVs obviously. Or aliens . . .


28 posted on 11/22/2018 7:36:33 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

New high. Yes, the percentage of CO2 went from zero point zero to zero point zero, but as usual they report it in PPM (parts per million) to make it sound like a substantial amount. The PERCENTAGE of CO2 in the atmosphere is 0.04% If that percentage ever got to 0.02% plants would start dying off and guess what dies off next? So F them with this crap, if it’s going up it can only be a good thing. More CO2 equals more plants which equals more food which equals more life but that will never happen in any substantial way because the CO2 level is too low as it is, just to get it up to 1% would be impossible short of the earth blowing up from a mega volcano. And then the methane hysteria. The percentage of Methane in this atmosphere is 0.00017%. So low that there’s probably more of Al Gores hot air in the atmosphere than Methane. I’m getting sick and tired of these scam artists comparing this to a 20,000 mile wide meteorite coming our way on a direct collision course with earth. Al Gore for the past 30 years has been saying in 10 years we’ll be past the point of no return. How long is he going to keep that up?


29 posted on 11/22/2018 7:36:52 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
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To: Olog-hai

ya mean greenhouse gases are now 0.045%? Golly, whatever will we do?


30 posted on 11/22/2018 7:43:11 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Olog-hai

They always say CO2 is going into the air and stay there for thousands of years but it sounds like they know nothing about plants


31 posted on 11/22/2018 7:44:47 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Dogbert41

But give us all of your money first.


32 posted on 11/22/2018 7:46:10 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

[[but as usual they report it in PPM (parts per million) to make it sound like a substantial amount.]]

Exactly- yes, 400 ppm sounds like a lot, and hundreds of billions of tons of CO2 certainly sounds like a lot- and people hear that and freak out- but considering the atmosphere is nearly 6 QUADRILLION tons, that amount is nothing but a drop in the4 ocean


33 posted on 11/22/2018 7:47:04 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Hodar

You can’t tax the sun.


34 posted on 11/22/2018 7:47:17 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: Olog-hai
Not good enough. We’ll need much higher amounts to offset the effects of the coming Grand Solar Minimum.

No sunspots mean weak solar wind, so fewer cosmic rays are deflected from Earth. More high altitude clouds, so more cooling.

35 posted on 11/22/2018 7:56:12 PM PST by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: Olog-hai

When did these freakin’ fascists down at the UN become experts on the environment?


36 posted on 11/22/2018 8:08:12 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: RightGeek

Too much hot gases from the Democrats during the recent elections. Solution - ban Democrats. They talk too much, eat too much, and fart too much. Besides that, they are full of crap which releases methane and nitrous oxide gases when they speak out of both cheeks (and I don’t mean those on their faces).


37 posted on 11/22/2018 8:29:37 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

I believe LIBS around the world are the most dangerous malignancy for civil society and for humanity . Look at the murders of hundreds of millions of human beings in the last century or so.


38 posted on 11/22/2018 8:34:48 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: dhs12345

#34. Re “You can’t tax the sun”. Shhh. In California they’ll tax anything. Don’t give them any more ideas.

Wait, on the other hand, if they tax the sun in California, they will drive out more conservative businesses and families, thus forcing them to tax the remaining rich white liberals and anti-police, anti-American blacks, and the drug-dealer Hispanics more and more until California collapses like the San Andreas Fault on Steroids.

Go ahead and tax the Sun, Moonbeam and new Gov. Gruesome. I want to see you finish off your state like a “Tax Neutron Bomb” hit it. The coyotes can have food for years.


39 posted on 11/22/2018 8:36:10 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Olog-hai

Green revolution plus it makes the Erf more sustainable.


40 posted on 11/22/2018 8:50:00 PM PST by Paladin2
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