Greenhouse gas levels in atmosphere hit new high: UN

Agence France-Presse ^ | 22 Nov 2018

[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. …

[Revel]

So this is the 2nd of these French propaganda articles that I have just seen here. The Cali fires spread like they did because of Liberals not forest management. Nothing to do with Global warming. That was the lie in the other article. Now to calculate how much Co2 and particles were just spread into the atmosphere and elsewhere due to the fires. How long would it take man to create as much Co2 as that?

Which in turn shows the folly of the whole man made global warming crap.

[lizma2]

CO2 in the past was as high as 4000 ppmv, now we’re at 400.

Sahara has river beds running through it. A major, major ice has shoved rocks found close to the North pole to the equator.

How did we cause this much extreme climate change before we were here?

Wandered over to NASA website on climate change tonight and it’s full of lies!!! Amazing.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

SSDD.

[lizma2]

Maryland has a poop tax, rain tax and a sunshine tax (to pay for alternative energy.)

[HiTech RedNeck]

The globe somehow managed to survive a lot worse.

[Vince Ferrer]

"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.

...And all life on Earth was wiped out. Wait...

[Revolutionary]

The U.S. should tax the world. We will use the money to come up with a solution since we have the best minds and technology in the world. And we keep raising the tax on the world to get to a solution sooner. Meanwhile: Texas barbeque for everyone!

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#44. Re Maryland has a poop, rain and sunshine tax.

Translated into real words, it means the Democrats are full of crap, they piss on the taxpayer, and they won’t let the sun shine in on their corrupt deals.

[ArtDodger]

” 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. “

Yes, that is ‘decided’ science, and no longer needs to be validated... EVER!

[maddog55]

[.44 Special]

Not to worry, as soon as the globalist figure out that we’re headed for a new ice age they’ll blame CO2 for blocking the Sun.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Al Gore once called the atmosphere a "very thin layer of gas around the earth" and I laughed at that one. Consider the deepest part of the ocean is the Mariana trench which is 7 miles deep. Well the atmosphere is 300 MILES "deep" covering every inch of the earth. Yes most of that atmosphere is concentrated within a 10 mile altitude, but it's so massive that the average person has trouble conceptualizing it. We can no more change the composition of that atmosphere to any substantial degree than we can pee in the ocean and turn it all yellow. We are a bunch of microbes on a pinhead. Plants rule earth and we will never overtake them.

[ReaganGeneration2]

You’re onto something...

CO2 actually causes cooling — https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/03/does_the_greenhouse_gas_co2_cool_the_climate.html

[dhs12345]

Good point. The bureaucrats are annoyed when we consume less because we are more efficient so taxing the sun is very possible.

[Bob434]

[[We can no more change the composition of that atmosphere to any substantial degree than we can pee in the ocean and turn it all yellow. ]]

My point exactly, I give an analogy that visualizes a bit better how vast the atmosphere is and how little CO2 there actually is

Take an Olympic sized pool of 90 degree water- now take five gallon pails of 100 degree water (the 4 five gallon pails are about the equivalent volume of 0.04% of the pool, approx same as the greenhouse gas/CO2 level in our atmosphere), dump it into the pool, and what happens? Nothing- The pool remains at 90 degrees because there simply is nowhere near enough 100 degree water being added to change the temp- The 100 degree water reaches stasis almost immediately (ie it gets cooled to 90 degrees)

Noe, if we were to drain 3/4 of the pool, and add in 100 degree water to fill the rest, yes, that would change the temp of the pool- however, 4 five gallon pails will do absolutely nothing substantial to the 90 degree pool

or like you say- a single person peeing in the ocean expecting it to turn yellow-

[Ancesthntr]

“Greenhouse gas levels in atmosphere hit new high: UN”

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...and the Sun doesn’t give a rat’s ass what the UN says...a Super Grand Solar Minimum is coming, and would do so with no green house gases or 10X as much as we have now.

[lizma2]

ROFL!! Well said and then some!