McKibben's movement: 350 ppm ( 350.org progressives )

Harvard Gazette ^ | October 19th | Corydon Ireland

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Bill McKibben '82 has founded 350.org, a worldwide action group that this weekend (Oct. 23-25) will promote demonstrations on every continent. McKibben was at Harvard's Memorial Church for a 90-minute "climate convocation" sponsored by 17 groups.

Author and climate activist Bill McKibben '82 ascended into the pulpit of the Memorial Church at Harvard University on Oct. 18, a stage so grand that legend puts it "10 feet above contradiction."

McKibben's message is that the Earth is warming rapidly, that climate change is too late to stop, but that it is not too late to act. Acting means getting humankind, with its proliferating autos and industries, back to 350 parts per million of atmospheric carbon dioxide, the principal gas associated with global warming. (Levels are 390 ppm now, and rising at about 2 ppm each year.)

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Great. We got yet another one of these stupid environmentalist groups to deal with. Being puffed up by the socialists at harvard.

[Izzy Dunne]

So, raze the building and plant some trees...

[runninglips]

OMYGAWD, at that rate we will have an atmosphere of 2,350 PPM in the year 3010...overwhelming the Earth I am sure...lol

[runninglips]

Van Jones is associated with 350.org, a guy just called Glenn Becks radio show and was talking about how his grade school child was studying their material in a required assignment. Old Commies just go into education is the rule.

[norraad]

...sorry, no can do, everybody went skiing due to record early snowfalls in the east.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

The half life of CO2 in the atmosphere is about 100 years, so if the driving function - rate of burning fossil fuels - is constant we’ll hit steady state long before that.

BTW, the half life of H2O in the atmosphere is about a week, so although H2O is dominant, the effects of CO2 presist a lot longer.

Because of the different half lives, the amount of CO2 doesn’t fluctuate much from place to place or over short time spans. The level of H2O in the form of water vapor can change dramatically in less than a day or over a distance of a hundred miles.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

You left the “y” out of the name of the source newspaper.

[Sender]

I see they are having organized protests in such socially-conscious, progressive countries as Yemen, Ghana, Ethiopia, Abu Dhabi and Nigeria.

Now tell me with a straight face that a lot of people in Yemen or Nigeria are most concerned with the concentration of CO2 in the air. They are whipped up by these "community organizers" to protest because they know that a climate treaty hurts the US and might scam them some money. But just like the oil wealth of Nigeria, that carbon money will be skimmed off by the elites. The protesting people will get nothing, except for the satisfaction of knowing that the US is being screwed.

[Louis Foxwell]

But just like the oil wealth of Nigeria, that carbon money will be skimmed off by the elites. Why do we pay attention to these scam artists, frauds and liars? Global warming is a ponzi scheme that benefits its promoters. These are scoundrels. Treat them as such. That is all they deserve.