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CO2 Hits Record Levels, Researchers Find (Ozone too. ZOT!!!)
Associated Press ^ | 3-20-04 | Charles Hanley

Posted on 03/20/2004 12:34:02 PM PST by 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.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; co2levels; globalwarming; iamfreezing; kittenchow; recordheat; vkpac; zot
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To: TheRightCause
Well we had 2 inches of snow on St. Patrick's day in S.E. Wisconsin. This in not especially unusual, though hardly a sign of dramatic warming. I think the winter was cooler than average. When the socialists start calling for building nuclear power plants, I'll begin to listen.
41 posted on 03/20/2004 2:02:33 PM PST by Faraday
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To: TheRightCause
SCREEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMM!

The sky is falling!

Oh, sob! The sky is falling.

A troll has graciously logged on to warn us.

Come, Henny Penny, Foxy Loxy, and Turkey Lurkey (that's you, Troll), we must run and tell the King.

Somebody do something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
42 posted on 03/20/2004 2:04:58 PM PST by Ole Okie (John F'n SOB Kerry, the pipple's cherce?)
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To: Indy Pendance
Scientists just this week proclaimed that global warming is due to the earth reversing its magnetic field. It has been 3/4 of a billion years since the earth reversed polarity of its fields, and we are in the first stages of the latest flip. As the earth advances towards this reversal, for a short period of time the earth loses its magnetic field. This allows the Sun to warm our atmosphere more than is usual, due to less filtration.

The field has lost about 5% of its strength over the last century, and will be at zero-flux in about 2000 years.

Now I want to hear what brilliant solutions the environmental-whacko's will come up with to counter this "new revelation"?!

LLS
43 posted on 03/20/2004 2:06:30 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (We point out Kerry's record and the facts, and they just THINK it's attack politics.)
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To: TheRightCause
Doesn't more Co2 just make more plants grow? Isn't that what they breathe?
44 posted on 03/20/2004 2:07:01 PM PST by netmilsmom (Jonathansmommie's daughter was born 3-11-04, both home today!)
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To: LibLieSlayer
They will ignore facts as usual. It just doesn't 'feel' good.
45 posted on 03/20/2004 2:08:06 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Jackson Brown
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.
That's what I thought! Thanks for saving me the search time. Maybe if the dims were real environmentalists they'd just stop breathing and solve the global warming "problem". Works for me! ;-)
46 posted on 03/20/2004 2:08:13 PM PST by Tunehead54
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To: Tunehead54; TheRightCause
See #46 - Save the world and do us all a favor!
Typical troll post and then no response to reasoned arguments against their position. Can we get a zot over here?

;-)

47 posted on 03/20/2004 2:13:10 PM PST by Tunehead54
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To: dirtboy
>>He's probably driving a '74 Pinto.<<

I had a 79 Pinto. White with red interior. All my friends learned how to drive a stick on it. Full AM/FM 8-Track with four speakers. It was hot, hot, hot.

This was, however, in 1979, when the world was freezing from the coming Ice age....


48 posted on 03/20/2004 2:14:24 PM PST by netmilsmom (Jonathansmommie's daughter was born 3-11-04, both home today!)
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To: TheRightCause
Carbon dioxide, mostly from burning of coal, gasoline and other fossil fuels, traps heat that otherwise would radiate into space.

Ummm... This is simply not true and not a scientific fact. The totality of human caused CO2 is a couple of percentage points of the entire total. Most of the carbon oxide in the atmosphere is there via natural causes and part of the world we live in and has been so for hundreds of millions of years.

49 posted on 03/20/2004 2:18:36 PM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: netmilsmom
I had a 79 Pinto. White with red interior. All my friends learned how to drive a stick on it.

My mom had a '74 Pinto, and I learned to drive a stick on it.

But forum guidelines prohibit me from giving a proper description of that car...

50 posted on 03/20/2004 2:25:32 PM PST by dirtboy (Howard, we hardly knew ye. Not that we're complaining, mind you...)
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To: TheRightCause
Welcome to Free Republic.
Have a nice day.

If you want to find a receptive audience, I suggest DU (Dummies' Underground). Freepers are aware of which direction "climate" flows in the northern hemisphere. Perhaps you may also want to post your crap in Russia and the Pacific Islands. Good luck.

51 posted on 03/20/2004 2:26:00 PM PST by Publius6961 (50.3% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks (subject to a final count).)
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To: TheRightCause
Yeah! And the last leftist I saw across the barriers from us was screaming, "THE OCEAN IS GOING TO BURN SOON!!!"

That was 3 yrs ago. I'm still waiting.

THE FREAKIN' SKY IS FALLING..... ON YOUR HEAD, BUCKO.
52 posted on 03/20/2004 2:27:23 PM PST by Humidston (New name for Kerry - JANE KERRY.)
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To: TheRightCause
Sheesh! CO2 is plant food. The biggest cause of aspiration of CO2 on the planet are trees!
53 posted on 03/20/2004 2:28:46 PM PST by jslade (People who are easily offended, OFFEND ME!)
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To: Semper Paratus
Thats what you got there? Got about 200 inches total this year..the coldest its been in decades and the most snow ever. I'm with you..bring global warming ON!

BTW..Duck! One hell of a storm is comming your way..it dropped from about 40 today to 28 in a matter of an hour and its snowing again and the wind is really howling...from the NORTH! GRRRRRRR
54 posted on 03/20/2004 2:29:53 PM PST by crz
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To: HighWheeler
Tiny minds know that as an article of faith, all world events prior to when they were born don't matter.
One of the benefits of limited intelligence.

Never mind that the identical events happened 130,000 , 240,000 , 330,000 , and 450,000 years ago. This time their superior brainpower can prove that a different source of factors are causing it. Just don't hold your breath waiting around to hear it.

55 posted on 03/20/2004 2:32:47 PM PST by Publius6961 (50.3% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks (subject to a final count).)
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To: netmilsmom
I had a 79 Pinto.

I had some model close to that (maybe a little older) and you couldn't kill it. It was also stick shift, but drove a little rough, we used it as a backup car for years until it became to bad an eyesore.

56 posted on 03/20/2004 2:33:19 PM PST by LowOiL (Christian and proud of it ! Typos are the devil's fault thou)
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To: TheRightCause
Buh-bye now!

57 posted on 03/20/2004 2:33:36 PM PST by Poser (Belly Girl is Still Hot!)
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To: TheRightCause
You better start holding your breath, the sooner the better. It's for the children after all.
58 posted on 03/20/2004 2:33:42 PM PST by WV Mountain Mama (John Kerry is a first class NUMB NUTS. His face is NUMB and all his ideas are NUTS!)
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To: jslade
Sheesh! CO2 is plant food. The biggest cause of aspiration of CO2 on the planet are trees!

Actually, the top few feet of the ocean is, not trees, actually the amazon forest creates more co2 than it uses, because of the decay on the forest floor.

You will not hear a liberal scream cut the Amazon down though for the CO2 emmisions.

59 posted on 03/20/2004 2:39:01 PM PST by LowOiL (Christian and proud of it ! Typos are the devil's fault thou)
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To: TheRightCause
To "TheRightCause",

"Fat, Drunk, and Stupid Is No Way to Go Through Life, Boy."


60 posted on 03/20/2004 2:39:44 PM PST by HighWheeler (RATS hero is an impeached, dis-barred, lying, perjuring, cheating, lazy, cowardly sexual predator)
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