Posted on 05/01/2014 10:20:56 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
There's striking new evidence that Earth's atmosphere is increasingly saturated with carbon dioxide, the major gas from fossil fuel emissions that trigger climate change.
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"This should be taken as a warning," said Ken Caldeira, an atmospheric scientist with the Carnegie Institution's department of global ecology at Stanford University. "It is time to stop building things with tailpipes and smokestacks.
"It is time to stop using the sky as a waste dump for our carbon dioxide pollution. If we fail to heed this warning, our children will end up living in a world that is much hotter than any human being has ever experienced."
The instruments that have been measuring carbon dioxide for more than 50 years showed that for the entire month of April, levels of the gas exceeded 400 parts per million for the first time, said Pieter Tans, a climate scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency who monitors the instrument record.
The precise average for the entire month was 401.25 parts per million as of Tuesday, he said, and that level had only reached the crucial 400 threshold for the first time during a single day a year ago before dipping slightly.
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Just another day on the spinning globe we call Homeland.
Maybe they ought to modify their Geoengineering strategies a bit.
Quit spraying crap in the air and figure out a way to neuter volcanos instead.
Is this the reading they got from the top of Mauna Loa, a freakin’ active volcano?
Yawn....the boy who cried wolf and all that...
Trees are lovin’ it!
And we're still here.
Clearly Mr. Caldeira is a detached inquirer into the hidden mechanics of the universe, with no agenda of any kind.
His impartiality and disinterestedness are impeccable.
Ban all carbonated drinks. They’re totally unnecessary.
(except for beer)
Isn't it convenient how all the important "thresholds" are in decimal?
If there is global warming, why am I still wearing my Winter coat in May?
only reached the crucial 400 threshold
Crucial because....?
Look, my dinosaurs LOVE this weather....
"Yeah, producing oxygen. We’re all got to do our part. You know, the jungles are receding everywhere.”
I believe a fact check will reveal it actually peaked in some prehistoric era when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
Wow! They’ve exploded from almost nothing to almost 150% of almost nothing.
The first millenium panic was a twofer -- M in Roman numerals, 1000 in Arabic (which western Europe probably wasn't using yet. I don't know if the Arabs were yet, since they got it from India.)
Our propane bills skyrocketed this last winter. I’ll take all the global warming I can get.
A person who writes words for a living ought to learn the meaning of the words they use, instead of trying to terrorize others with false claims like this.
I’ll panic and do what they recommend as soon as I see those who preach doom/gloom practice what they preach to us peasants
And yet the globe has not warmed for the past 10 years. I guess there is not a direct correlation as some would have us believe.....
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