CO2 Hits Record Levels, Researchers Find (Ozone too. ZOT!!!)

Associated Press ^ | 3-20-04 | Charles Hanley

[TheRightCause]

Carbon dioxide, the gas largely blamed for global warming, has reached record-high levels in the atmosphere after growing at an accelerated pace in the past year, say scientists monitoring the sky from this 2-mile-high station atop a Hawaiian volcano.

Carbon dioxide, mostly from burning of coal, gasoline and other fossil fuels, traps heat that otherwise would radiate into space. Global temperatures increased by about 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.6 degrees Celsius) during the 20th century, and international panels of scientists sponsored by world governments have concluded that most of the warming probably was due to greenhouse gases.

[VOA]

A whopping degree in a whole century. Wow.

And this in a century which has just about the least recorded amount of volcanic activity
(which contributes to cooling).

This little factoid was mentioned in the PBS series "Secrets of The Dead"
episode "Catastrophe" that built the case fhat a MEGA-eruption of Krakatoa
(or part of it) caused a deadly cooling in the northern hemisphere
for (IIRC) about a decade in the sixth centure, A.D.

[Semper Paratus]

First day of spring and I'm staring at 5 inches of snow in my backyard.

Co2? "Bring it On!"

[Brilliant]

Of course the CO2 and the hot air are up. It's an election year.

[Jackson Brown]

Carbon dioxide, mostly from burning of coal, gasoline and other fossil fuels, traps heat that otherwise would radiate into space.

Here we go -- again -- with AP's (and other media like Reuters') big lie: ""CO2 in the atmosphere comes mostly from the “respiration” of living things. Every time a person [or anyone one of the many billions of animals] breathes out, he or she exhales CO2 which the lungs have removed from the bloodstream, where it is the waste product left when cells burn carbohydrates to make energy. The microbes that break down the dead plant matter in soil release CO2 as they digest it. The biggest source is plant respiration.""

http://www.nsc.org/ehc/climate/ccucla4.htm

[steplock]

"2-mile-high station atop a Hawaiian volcano"

That would not have anything to do with the source of gases now - would it?

[HighWheeler]

Somebody needs to tell me about the caveman's SUV experience about 130,000 years ago, the last time the temperature and CO2 went high:

[farmfriend]

Looks like a couple of hand loads of ZOT!

Nah, let em stay. It's not like we can't refute his claims with facts! If intellect is our weapon we are playing with an unarmed man!

[js1138]

Mankind sure does get busy every 100,000 years or so...

[HighWheeler]

"However, the levels of dihydrogen monoxide released into the atmosphere remain unregulated."

You're right, I tested the inside of my kitchen sink and found a very high concentration of it there. In fact, yesterday, it was so heavily concentrated in the atmosphere, it blocked the sun, causing global cooling around here.

[HighWheeler]

"Nah, let em stay."

I don't mind the lib weasels showing up, but I do mind when they pull their typical cowardly cut-and-run that is one of the hallmarks of liberals.

I would like to see a rule around here that if a lib posts a thread, they either defend it within 15 minutes or they get banned.

Ya gotta give them at least 15 minutes to post followup responses, they aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer with that publick edjukashun.

[mewzilla]

Bet he drives a gas hog.

[dirtboy]

I'm glad to know the President says global warming is unproven and the record tempartures we've been experiencing the past few weeks are a natural phenomenon.

Please send some of those record temps to Pennsylvania. We're trying to melt the snowfall from this week.

Thanks for playing Whack-A-Troll. The moderators have a parting gift for you.

[HighWheeler]

A Hog like this?

[dirtboy]

The late great Slash seeing the neighbor's German Shepherd go by:

Now THAT looks like one bad-assed cat.

[mewzilla]

Nah, that Hog gets good mileage :)

[SpeakLittle_ThinkMuch]

Bet he/she isn't old enough to drive.

[FreedomCalls]

I'd hate to have to trade in my Expedition for a hybrid, or God forbid, take public transportation!

Then why don't you? Do you need a President to tell you to do that? Being a Conservative is all about personal responsibility. But being a DU troll, you would not know anything about "responsibility" would you? Your dictionary is stuck on the "victim" page.

[Indy Pendance]

But wait! Less than 30 years ago, the libbies were talking about "The Coming Ice Age". Can't you all get your environment talking points straight? No need to answer, it is a RHETORICAL question.

Main Entry: rhe·tor·i·cal
Pronunciation: ri-'tor-i-k&l, -'tär-
Variant(s): also rhe·tor·ic /ri-'tor-ik, -'tär-/
Function: adjective
1 a : of, relating to, or concerned with rhetoric b : employed for rhetorical effect; especially : asked merely for effect with no answer expected <a rhetorical question>
2 a : given to rhetoric : GRANDILOQUENT b : VERBAL
- rhe·tor·i·cal·ly /-i-k(&-)lE/ adverb

[dirtboy]

Then why don't you? Do you need a President to tell you to do that?

He's probably driving a '74 Pinto.

[Zon]

LOL...

I'm glad somebody else got it. As I was reading it I saw the cartoon in my head -- standing at the top lip of a volcanoe a charchter in lab coat with gauge in hand reading the numbers while standing amongst a cloud of volcanoe smoke.