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The push for 350: Contradictions and carbon levels (environmental activist group 350.org)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 12/12/09 | Seth Borenstein - ap

Posted on 12/13/2009 1:33:57 PM PST by NormsRevenge

COPENHAGEN – As police cracked down on climate protesters, church bells tolled 350 times Sunday to impress on the U.N. global warming conference a number that is gaining a following, but is also awash in contradictions.

Conference negotiators, meanwhile, went behind closed doors in talks to pin down an elusive new pact on climate, talks in which the figure 350 looms as a goal for true believers, but one that appears impossible based on progress so far.

It refers to 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the highest concentration that some leading scientists say the world can handle without sparking dangerous climate effects.

"It's the most important number in the world," said Bill McKibben, founder of the environmental activist group 350.org. "It's the line between habitability on this planet and a really, really desolate future."

Not everyone buys into that.

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KEYWORDS: 350; 350ppm; capandtrade; carbonlevels; climate; climatechange; contradictions; copenhagen; enviromarxism; globalwarming; rodneykingscience
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To: NormsRevenge; 1Old Pro; aardvark1; a_federalist; abner; alaskanfan; alloysteel; alfons; ...

Let’s go for 500ppm!

Lush forests, and plenty of food for the vegetards!


21 posted on 12/13/2009 4:49:54 PM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bomb-a administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: NormsRevenge

How ‘bout 30.06? That’s really precise!


22 posted on 12/13/2009 4:53:09 PM PST by stboz
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To: editor-surveyor
Dillution is the solution to pollution!!!
23 posted on 12/13/2009 5:03:56 PM PST by SierraWasp (AARP is guilty of Elder Abuse by endorsing a law that eliminates Medicare Advantaqe plans!!!)
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To: editor-surveyor

And free Dope for everyone!


24 posted on 12/13/2009 5:07:51 PM PST by tubebender (Some minds are like concrete Thoroughly mixed up and permanently set...)
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To: bitterohiogunclinger; NormsRevenge
"The scary part is that these clowns are reproducing."

Really? I thought they were mostly GAY to stop the population bomb!!!

25 posted on 12/13/2009 5:08:14 PM PST by SierraWasp (AARP is guilty of Elder Abuse by endorsing a law that eliminates Medicare Advantaqe plans!!!)
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To: Da Coyote

It’s still an interesting number. Until I heard about the “350 movement” I believed that carbon dioxide formed almost 1% of the atmosphere. I was surprised to learn that it is no more than .035 of 1%. That’s not much for a substance that every person and animal is breathing out constantly. Perhaps plant life sucks it up very effectively.


26 posted on 12/13/2009 6:36:27 PM PST by TheMole
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To: NormsRevenge

45?


27 posted on 12/13/2009 6:50:03 PM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

My thoughts exactly!

Who is paying these Bozos to be there?

We have got to ID the man/men behind the curtain on this Globull Warming Hoax!

And then, totally discredit them and their hoax!


28 posted on 12/13/2009 6:52:13 PM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

PS IOW, who is paying to hire and feed the European Rent-A-Mob?


29 posted on 12/13/2009 6:53:26 PM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: TheMole
Hmmm...I wonder where they came up with with 350ppm value. It certainly wasn't from any empirical study.

I wonder what science really tells us. Courtesy of Dr. Idso...my FReeper friends.


30 posted on 12/13/2009 6:56:12 PM PST by I got the rope
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31 posted on 12/13/2009 7:03:08 PM PST by I got the rope
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To: Da Coyote

Oh, and let us remember that the 350 stands for 3.1 one hundredths OF ONE PERCENT........

MEANING 3.5 out of 10,000
Meaning 3.5 seats in a 10,000 seat stadium

These days it is-—>> 3.8 seats in a 10,000 seat stadium


32 posted on 12/14/2009 12:15:18 AM PST by dennisw
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To: editor-surveyor

BTTT


33 posted on 12/14/2009 3:00:40 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: stboz

I like that number, the best!!

.30-06 rules!!

Be Ever Vigilant!


34 posted on 12/14/2009 8:36:46 AM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: rogue yam

“When fascism came, it came wrapped in environmentalism and carrying carbon credits.”


35 posted on 12/14/2009 8:46:45 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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