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Another 150,000 Years of CO2 Data
An anonymous reader writes, "We've known since 2004 that the past 440,000 years have shown atmospheric carbon dioxide levels varying between about 200 and 300 ppmv, the difference in extremes being the difference between advancing ice sheets and our current clime. In 2005 the data were analyzed back to 650,000 years and were found to be much the same — Al Gore was proud to be able to show that then-new analysis in his 2006 movie An Inconvenient Truth. Now all 800,000 years of the ice column have been analyzed, and the data show much the same pattern, according to the researcher: 'When carbon dioxide changed there was always an accompanying climate change. Over the last 200 years human activity has increased carbon dioxide to well outside the natural range' — to 380 ppmv."
Just one more reason to support the colonization of Mars -- it is obviously that we shouldn't be keeping all our eggs in one basket...especially when the people steering the basket are pretty sure the world is only 6,000 years old and everything that happens upon it is the will of Xenu.
Mars ho!
These stories are free but worth money.
Clearly our earlier homonid ancestors are at fault here.
I reject any conclusions that could be drawn from this on the basis that it's cooler than normal in my neck of the woods. Obviously, even though I don't understand the science behind any of this, I have cleanly disproven all silly liberal claims about "global warming" and whatnot that are about to pop up.
No, you can't have another planet. Learn to take care of the one you got first.
I'll turn this rocket right around!
Global warming, that is one of the things that bugs me! Science is just a stupid political thing with no fundamental truth behind it, I bet we're in for a cold winter!
This guy is all over it!
You know a main greenhouse gas is H20 and that in the seventies scientisits were sure we were sliding into another ice age? RIght?
"Our position is that the unnatural levels of CO2 are the direct result of the Left's insistence upon breathing and speaking. Our studies show that, if they were to halt both of these annoying habits, a more natural level of CO2 would be quickly achieved. The course of action is clear. You are either with us or against us. Period. The End."
We need to start working on carbon sequestration right now, unless you want 140 degree summers across the entire midwest belt. And we need to use carbon taxes as our main source of governmental revenue, not stupid things like employment taxes.
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Hey, I live in Canada... Up here global warming sounds like kind of a nice idea, unless you like shoveling snow...
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
I would start stockpiling perri-air immediately if I were you. Also, begin constructing a large starship capable of transforming into a maid. You'll thank me later.
Not only does Gore fly around in a jet and drive a big car, but none of his multiple homes use the more-expensive Wind Power that is available from his respective local utilities.
I got one for you: he doesn't sequester the carbon dioxide that comes out of his nose. He complains about carbon dioxide and in the same breath he contributes to the problem with carbon emissions from his multiple nostrils. What a hypocrite. Clearly nothing needs to be done about this. Do I win a cookie?
I have my boat ready.. I say bring it on.
The world is due a good slimming down. And I like living on the water anyway!!
Ice that has been in my freezer for a few months tastes different from that fresh made.
For one, there are no leftovers in the antartic/antartica to transfer the flavor...
Secondly this ice is burried under meters upon meters of packed ice.
And lastly... You should really consider leaving a box of Arm and Hammer in your freezer.
Seriously man... The last thing I want to taste with my cold lemonade is left over fish or mother's ham "suprise".
"I am the king of the Romans, and am superior to rules of grammar!"
-Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (1368-1437)
Great, now what I am going to do with all these FORTRAN programmers I was collecting? Buy a classified ad, "free to good home"?
For one, there are no leftovers in the antartic/antartica to transfer the flavor...
Not true. Scientists have noted a distinct Mammoth-y flavor to many of the ice core samples. Areas with high sodium bicarbonate deposits do not exhibit this phenomenon, however.
4. Watch the atmospheric CO2 and water vapor escape into space
5. Get baked to a crisp during the next solar flare
You folks fail to relize that they can't have data dating back 800,000 years if the earth is less then 6,000 years old.
That extra time past midnight will be a real stinker.
Hell, make it longer. I'd have killed for an extra 39.5 minutes this morning.
We need to start working on carbon sequestration right now, unless you want 140 degree summers across the entire midwest belt. And we need to use carbon taxes as our main source of governmental revenue, not stupid things like employment taxes.
Oh great, tax people for working out, breathing out CO2, and not the fatties, storing carbon in their blubber.
That won't backfire, will it?
I really think that unless we do something immediately, the habitability of at least half the landmass on Earth will be be jeapordy.
And as I demonstrated above, your plan will hit their hitability. By gods man! What's a few floods compared to that?!
You can't take the sky from me...