Posted on 10/24/2016 3:05:34 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Geneva (AFP) - The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has passed an ominous milestone, ushering the planet into "a new era" of climate change, the UN said Monday.
For the first time on record, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere averaged 400 parts per million (ppm) in 2015, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in its latest Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.
CO2, the main greenhouse gas driving climate change, has previously passed the 400 ppm threshold on certain months in specific locations but never on a globally averaged basis, WMO said.
The UN agency also reported that CO2 concentration rates had "surged again to new records in 2016" and predicted the annual average would "not dip below (400 ppm) for many generations."
WMO chief Petteri Taalas said "the year 2015 ushered in a new era of optimism and climate action with the Paris climate change agreement.
"But it will also make history as marking a new era of climate change reality with record high greenhouse gas concentrations," he added in a statement.
The CO2 concentration rate for 2014 was 397.2 ppm, just short of the 400 ppm mark that some climate activists once deemed unthinkable.
- El Nino factor -
CO2 concentration rates have spiked in part because of a strong El Nino, the whether phenomenon that occurs every four to five years with a broadly warming effect.
El Nino "triggered droughts in tropical regions and reduced the capacity of 'sinks' like forests, vegetation and the oceans to absorb CO2," WMO said.
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I think I will go vote early before the CO2 kills every human on earth.
Looks like we’re running out of CO2. It’s a good thing we’re making more.
More CO2 for photoplankton in the sea, so more food for fish too.
Imagine how folks would have felt as part of primordial soup or being created from remnants of a star fried to a crisp and blown like dust by the galactic winds to God knows where?
Offended, no doubt.
Junk science rules these days.. if much science is even taught anymore.
CO2 is plant food. More plants, more oxygen. So the problem is...?
We can Fix Climate Change if we Institute FASCISM on a Global Scale. Got it.
Studied Answer: They don't.
They plan to control all the other lesser specks.
Woohoo! Great news for the forests and crops!
Found this on another forum, appropriate for here.:
“31,000+ Hillary emails revealed, and not a single one mentioning a concern about global warming, global cooling, or climate change. Think about that for a bit. IT’S ALL A LIE!”
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