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Enjoy Earth While It Lasts: Atmospheric Carbon Levels Pass the Point of No Return (RUH ROH!)
complex.com ^ | 9/28/2016 | Mac McCann

Posted on 09/29/2016 7:03:14 AM PDT by rktman

The bad news: Earth's climate change problem just passed a point of no return. Atmospheric carbon levels have passed 400 parts per million, and they won't return to more environment-friendly levels "ever again for the indefinite future."

The good news? Oh, wait, no. Sorry. We're pretty screwed.

Carbon dioxide just hit its annual minimum at Mauna Loa Observatory and failed to dip below 400 ppm https://t.co/m0ZoyzgcEf — Climate Central (@ClimateCentral) September 28, 2016

We already knew it was bad. After all, in the last 20 years, humanity destroyed 1.27 million square miles—10 percent—of the Earth's wilderness. Climate change has "devastated" 93 percent of the Great Barrier Reef. The world's so screwed that genius Stephen Hawking recently claimed that "the human race has no future if it doesn't go to space."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: climatechange; ecowankers; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; idjits; manbearpig
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To: rktman
THANK BUDDA I FINISHED BUILDING MY SPACESHIP!! AND NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON!!! WISH ME LUCK!!!


21 posted on 09/29/2016 7:29:01 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: cgbg

That we might stop is the true climate change crisis.


22 posted on 09/29/2016 7:32:49 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: rktman
If only there were some sort of life form that required carbon dioxide to live, and which was prolific enough that any increase in atmospheric CO2 would almost immediately result in a surge in that life form's population and fecundity to take advantage of the sudden increase in the one resource it most needed to survive. Even better, that life form would thrive most when temperatures climbed, so that any possible greenhouse effect resulting from the increase in CO2 would only serve to make the world even more hospitable to that lifeform.

Oh wait...


23 posted on 09/29/2016 7:35:06 AM PDT by Little Pig
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To: rktman

If there were no people on earth wouldn’t volcanoes still erupt? Earthquakes happen? Floods? Forest fires? It seems “Mother Earth” is doing quite well in destroying herself.

Man made global warming is a hoax.

And natural global warming is a good thing (ask the European at the end of the little ice age a few centuries ago.)


24 posted on 09/29/2016 7:35:38 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Exactly! Seems like the scare mongers have overplayed their hand on this one.


25 posted on 09/29/2016 7:37:45 AM PDT by winner3000
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Look where the readings were taken. Of course the carbon content will be higher around major volcanoes in Hawaii. What BS.


26 posted on 09/29/2016 7:38:23 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Little Pig

Yet the “Greenies” want to deprive that little green guy and his many friends of their food!


27 posted on 09/29/2016 7:39:25 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: rktman; ROCKLOBSTER
From our FRiend ROCKLOBSTER to put this number in perspective:


Atmospheric carbon dioxide has reached a historic threshold as levels remain above 400 parts per million

It's not historic. Real scientists tell us the level has been much higher in past millenia. The announced "scary level" is simply an insignificant amount, especially considering it's a natural component of the atmosphere...NOT a toxic pollutant.

Here's a little grade-school math:

Four hundred One millionths = 400/1,000,000

Divide by 100....400/1000000 = 4/10,000ths

Divide by four 4/10,000 = 1/2500th

1/2500 = 0.0004 = .04%

AKA: Four hundredths of a percent.


That's not even close to one percent.

For comparison sake, Oxygen is 21% of the atmosphere, Nitrogen is 78%.

HELL-freaking-LOW!

28 posted on 09/29/2016 7:40:52 AM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: rktman

Cool, we doomed so now we don’t “need to do something” about this political myth. Anyone pushing this myth can have this fact pointed out to them. “Too late, we are all going to die now” according to your own “data”.


29 posted on 09/29/2016 7:42:38 AM PDT by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: rktman

Oh noes!


30 posted on 09/29/2016 7:43:23 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: rktman
"Earth's climate change problem just passed a point of no return."

GREAT! So now we can stop worrying about it, funding studies of it, regulating emissions, passing punitive fines and taxes, etc. Right?

31 posted on 09/29/2016 7:46:45 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: rktman

Water vapor and methane are much more formidable greenhouse gasses. What’s the PPM on those?

What happened to the ozone hole crisis? Did it ever close?

What happened to the depletion of the rainforest crisis? Did it get replanted?


32 posted on 09/29/2016 7:48:33 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Silly. Of course not. No fracking/infernal combustion engines= no volcanoes, erfquakes, tornadoes, snow storms................... You know the rest.


33 posted on 09/29/2016 7:49:01 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: PROCON

Re: Four hundredths of a percent.

Yet some of these phony so-and-so’s, including science teachers, like to compare Earth to Venus in terms of the “green house effect”. Only problem is, CO2, as you point out, on Earth comprises a measly .04% of the atmosphere. On Venus it’s a whopping 96 or 97%!


34 posted on 09/29/2016 7:51:13 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: rktman

Thank you, thank you. We are saved!

The next glacial age that is over due, has been staved off for a few more years. Keep up the good work :)


35 posted on 09/29/2016 7:51:32 AM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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To: rktman

Excellent, that means we can stop worrying about it! /S

There is obviously no further need for all climate scientists who have taken my money via the corrupt government.


36 posted on 09/29/2016 7:52:02 AM PDT by Jay Thomas (If not for my faith in Christ, I would despair.)
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To: rktman

I guess what pushed us over the edge was 0bama and Al Gore and all the elites using an immense amount of carbon fuel traveling around to tell us to stop using carbon fuel.

If 0bama and his carbon using, planet destroying ilk would have stayed at home none of this would have happened.


37 posted on 09/29/2016 7:53:28 AM PDT by A message
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To: rktman
Actually we are screwed. Through Obama action and the inaction of a REPUBLICAN congress the greatest instrument of freedom in human history , the Internet, is being given away.Gone by tomorrow. Remember this day well , for it will forever be marked as the day where our apathy will be hung around our necks as a badge of shame for the rest of time.
38 posted on 09/29/2016 7:54:37 AM PDT by Nateman (If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!)
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To: rktman

“Honey? Cancel that solar panel installation we were gonna do.”

“Oh, and bump the a/c down to 68°, will ya? I’m hot.”


39 posted on 09/29/2016 7:59:04 AM PDT by moovova
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To: rktman

Think I’ll order some more bathing suits and sun block.


40 posted on 09/29/2016 8:05:38 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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