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There is more carbon dioxide than ever in the atmosphere. That’s bad for the climate
Npr ^ | Rebecca Hersher

Posted on 06/09/2024 1:18:44 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The amount of planet-warming carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere has hit a new record, as humanity struggles to rein in emissions of greenhouse gasses from burning fossil fuels.

The new record comes as tens of millions of people are grappling with extreme weather in the United States. Much of the western U.S. is experiencing the first major heat wave of the year, which is driving temperatures 20 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than what is normal for June. In the Southwest, temperatures are lingering well above 100 degrees.

Such extreme, prolonged heat is directly related to human-caused climate change, scientists say. All the extra carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere traps heat, and leads to more intense, frequent and persistent heat waves, and other extreme weather such as powerful hurricanes and heavy rain storms.

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To: ChicagoConservative27

Rebecca must have stopped taking her meds. 🙄🙄🙄


61 posted on 06/09/2024 2:10:31 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist .)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Plants will be happy but my allergies may not. More active plants means more aggressive growth.
OMG, now I know why we don’t need more CO2, the triffids are coming!!!🙄


62 posted on 06/09/2024 2:11:06 PM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Tell It Right

You are saying temperature is cyclical??? Blasphemy!!! /s


63 posted on 06/09/2024 2:11:42 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist .)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“ Stop. Please make it stop.”

Why do you keep posting it, then?


64 posted on 06/09/2024 2:11:57 PM PDT by ifinnegan (MDemocrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: 9422WMR

So do your part & plant a tree trees provide shade & absorb CO2😁


65 posted on 06/09/2024 2:12:15 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner (Treason is the reason for Democrat Sedition & subvertion )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“than ever” is a very short time. Than ever is defined as less than a hundred year. We have a 4+ billion year old planet. We have had far more CO2 and far less. We have had a far warmer planet and a far colder planet. We are not at an extreme. And our planet is constantly moving from one extreme to another for a host of reasons. Climate is just a scam to sell carbon tokens. Most of the world is not buying it. And we should not either.


66 posted on 06/09/2024 2:12:20 PM PDT by poinq (thics and customs and did not take an oath to the country. And did not follow the country's traditio)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BTW, I was wondering if they mean there is not enough plant life to suck up all the co2 in the atmosphere and by putting more into the air we have more co2 than the plant life can absorb. But if the existing ppm is 450-500 and I was told the plants are starving. Should more co2 be good for plants there by not starving them and allowing them to thrive better. So is there a growth lag that is not being accounted for yet?


67 posted on 06/09/2024 2:17:56 PM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BTW, I was wondering if they mean there is not enough plant life to suck up all the co2 in the atmosphere and by putting more into the air we have more co2 than the plant life can absorb. But if the existing ppm is 450-500 and I was told the plants are starving. Should more co2 be good for plants there by not starving them and allowing them to thrive better. So is there a growth lag that is not being accounted for yet?


68 posted on 06/09/2024 2:17:56 PM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: metmom

The early Permian period, carbon based life including plants, nearly ALL went extinct. Lowering the CO2 level in the atmosphere is bad Bad BAD.

“There is more CO2 in the atmosphere than ever” That sounds like a Jr high child wrote that.


69 posted on 06/09/2024 2:21:37 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: hanamizu

That would be .0042


70 posted on 06/09/2024 2:26:15 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No, it is not at its highest concentrations ever.

This is an abject lie


71 posted on 06/09/2024 2:27:13 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: EvilCapitalist

No!
Cut down vast swathes of trees and replace them with solar panels.
That lowers CO2 \emissions\, right?


72 posted on 06/09/2024 2:28:28 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (When I say "We" I speak of, -not for-, "We the People")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I blame it on bringing millions from 3rd world levels of CO2 emissions up to 1st world levels by importing them in droves.


73 posted on 06/09/2024 2:30:20 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: metmom

As determined from ICE cores.
Cold water sequesters CO2.
Plus those ICE cores are localized to the [current] poles or very high elevations (where the air is thinner.


74 posted on 06/09/2024 2:31:03 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (When I say "We" I speak of, -not for-, "We the People")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The largest CULT in human history.


75 posted on 06/09/2024 2:35:06 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hurray for global warming. Hurray for carbon dioxide. I burp as often as I can to do my part.


76 posted on 06/09/2024 2:40:23 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Than ever?” How would they know?


77 posted on 06/09/2024 2:40:37 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hunga Tonga mega-eruption effects are still being felt after 2 years.


78 posted on 06/09/2024 2:43:20 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

More lies from NPR. The only people who listen to it are those who are totally brainwashed leftists anyway.


79 posted on 06/09/2024 2:47:03 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The first sentence is a lie.

Present CO2 concentration is 400- 420 ppm.

"During the Paleozoic Era, CO2 levels were as high as 4,000 parts per million (ppm) around 300 million years ago. During the Ordovician Period, around 500 million years ago, CO2 levels were around 3,000-9,000 ppm."

Because...science.

80 posted on 06/09/2024 2:51:06 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual. )
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