[Mrs. Don-o]

This year-old article isn't exactly news (although in geologic time it happened 'bout 1 second ago) -- but I just wanted to gauge FReeper's reactions to my own proposal, that I'd like to bump up average global surface temps by 2^o and try to get the CO² to about 1500 ppm, so we can open up all that prime agricultural land in northern Canada and Eurasia, feed about 7 billion more people, and have valuable tropical beachfront property in Newfoundland and Labrador.

What say ye?

[Crazieman]

Wonder how much a prehistoric SUV would sell for if I could dig one up.

[Amagi]

Would that be Ice Age prehistoric levels?

[Rumplemeyer]

I vote yes, this should give the “population control” crowd the vapors.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Lot of heavy breathing going on back in the day? (800,000 years ago) Or, was it the CO2 being emitted from those scary SUV’s?

[Cold Heat]

Well I say that they should have tossed the reading for the simple reason that the volcano is active.

[TXnMA]

Q. What is the largest natural source of carbon dioxide?

A. Volcanoes

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Q. What is Mauna Loa?

A. A Volcano...

[Sgt_Schultze]

[Red Badger]

So, having a sensor at the top of an active volcano is a good idea..............................

[MRadtke]

Better that than another glacier build up here in Wisconsin! :)

[Gaffer]

A nice diversion and worthy of consideration. However, my first proposal is the urge the ‘Keeling’ family to take their highly accurate and scientific CO2 readings somewhere other than on the precipice of an active volcano.

[jdsteel]

This article mixes the (fraud) concepts of AGC and AGW. This seems to be a trend. Global “change” is a more flexible con, but doesn’t sell to the public like global “warming”.

[Moonman62]

[Brooklyn Attitude]

My rough interpretation of the data shown in the figures-
1. Daily CO2 conc from the 2nd to the 7th is fairly constant, on the 8th where it hits 400, the data is clearly an an artifact perhaps caused by an instrument malfunction or burp from the volcano. Check your instruments.

2. The long term data is clearly cyclical and the data from 1958 is a short term sample whereas the core data is averaged over hundreds or even thousands of years. You cannot compare the two.

3. The observatory data shows a constant rate of increase over 50 years. Since the amount of CO2 generated over those 50 years has not been increasing dramatically during that time, the rate of increase should be greater now than in the past. It is not.

[MNDude]

Imagine a stadium with 100,000 seats. Now imagine 40 seats are left empty while the rest have someone in them to give you an idea of how little 400 ppm is.

[mindburglar]

Who would read that?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

So the world came to an end 400,000 years ago and we just didn't get the memo?

[Buckeye McFrog]

As measured NEXT TO A VOLCANO!

Yinz all catch that?

[wxgesr]

I realize you did not write the above story, but wanted to point out that the "Big Island" is not old enough to have seen anything 800,000 years ago. "it is estimated that the northwestern most island, the Kure Atoll, is the oldest at approximately 28 million years (Ma); while the southeastern most island, Hawaiʻi, is approximately 0.4 Ma (400,000 years). The only active volcanism in the last 200 years has been on the southeastern island, Hawaiʻi, and on the submerged but growing volcano at the extreme southeast, Loʻihi. The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory of the U. S. Geological Survey documents recent volcanic activity and provides images and interpretations of the volcanism."

[agere_contra]

450 million years ago the Earth was locked into a massive ice age - and the CO2 level was between 2000 and 8000 ppm.

[C210N]

uh 0’, looks like the government will have to switch from preventing homes being built at ocean edges to preventing them from being built on calderas