Posted on 09/08/2014 7:17:03 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
A surge in atmospheric CO2 saw levels of greenhouse gases reach record levels in 2013, according to new figures.
Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere between 2012 and 2013 grew at their fastest rate since 1984.
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) says that it highlights the need for a global climate treaty.
But the UK's energy secretary Ed Davey said that any such agreement might not contain legally binding emissions cuts, as has been previously envisaged.
The WMO's annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin doesn't measure emissions from power station smokestacks but instead records how much of the warming gases remain in the atmosphere after the complex interactions that take place between the air, the land and the oceans.
About half of all emissions are taken up by the seas, trees and living things.
According to the bulletin, the globally averaged amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached 396 parts per million (ppm) in 2013, an increase of almost 3ppm over the previous year.
"The Greenhouse Gas Bulletin shows that, far from falling, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere actually increased last year at the fastest rate for nearly 30 years," said Michel Jarraud, secretary general of the WMO.
Atmospheric CO2 is now at 142% of the levels in 1750, before the start of the industrial revolution.
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Let’s keep the (BFA) bovine flatulence angle out of it. Thanks. ;-}
When I was on ship, there were kick plates on the doors to the CO2 room. Reason for those is because if there was a CO2 leak, the CO2, which is heavier than O2, and H2O, would settle to the bottom of the space, and begin to ‘stack up’ until the level of it reached your mouth and nose, whereupon you’d pass out, and then die.
Seems to me, if you are measuring CO2 in the atmosphere, you’d be taking those measurements close to the ground.
It’s also for this reason that the ocean is able to absorb CO2. It’s used by oceanic plant life in photosynthesis.
Because the molecule is as heavy as it is, plants as short as moss use it to make their own food.
If it we breathed NO2, say, then there would be no, or little, plant life, since the CO2 would be stacked up on top of the NO2.
And what is worse, there is so little CO2 in the atmosphere that it doesn’t make any difference in terms of how much heat is held to their earth. Water vapor, by far, has more influence on how hot the planet is than CO2.
Oh yeah pretty toxic that Dihydrogen monoxide...
Yeah, well, there ain’t that much Carbonated Dioxide stuff for the liberals to worry their little empty heads about, neither!!!
If they (the huggers) would have let Walter Munk measure ocean temperatures, we’d have definitive data on earth (ocean) temperatures.
Measuring the temp. of an insulating blanket at some altitude is bogus. Specially when the principle heat source is on the outside.
GRRRR
Man-O-Man! Ain’t that the truth!!!
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