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CO2 Levels Reach 400ppm at Mauna Loa For First Time On Record
Titus Andronicus writes "Today, NOAA reported, 'On May 9, the daily mean concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Mauna Loa, Hawaii, surpassed 400 parts per million for the first time since measurements began in 1958.' For comparison, over the last 800,000 years, CO2 has ranged from roughly 180 ppm to 280 ppm. 'For the entire period of human civilization, roughly 8,000 years, the carbon dioxide level was relatively stable near that upper bound. But the burning of fossil fuels has caused a 41 percent increase in the heat-trapping gas since the Industrial Revolution, a mere geological instant, and scientists say the climate is beginning to react, though they expect far larger changes in the future.' The last time Earth had 400 ppm was probably more than 3 megayears ago."
The people you call "denialists" are the only ones thinking rationally - they are simply demanding real science. That is to say, sharing of results and data and methodologies.
Indeed this latest measurement proves they were right to exhibit skepticism. A very high CO2 measurement is found after a decade of reduction in overall temperature. It proves beyond doubt that the thinking that people like you have had that CO2 in the atmosphere MUST cause warming is incorrect - it turns out that it's simply a gas, not a magic warming element that you assumed it to be.
Really it's just sad that you guys are so inept and drawing logical conclusions that you trumpet things like this which just show how wrong you are.
We've ALL been duped!
This is "yesterday"?
Observed Atmospheric CO2 Hits 400 Parts Per Million
Gosh. It's been first TWICE in a month. And Slashdot managed to mention it BOTH times!
Seriously. Does anybody really believe that we are wandering around in the atmospheric analog to the time Pangaea was splitting?
At least some academics have successfully publicised their findings and thereby secured funding for their continued project/employment.
BTW: .04 percent, not .0004 percent."
Correction: May 10, 2013
"An earlier version of this article misstated the amount of carbon dioxide in the air as of Thursday's reading from monitors. It is
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Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
I suppose that you greens, never heard of life happens, just as shit for brains happen. Questioning of authority is everyday. Do you believe that 2+2=4, if you say yes, and you believe all the garbage that the climate enforcers, such as Al Gore insist you should believe, then you missed all the science of the rest of the world. Such as the greenhouse studies that said all the CO2, numbers are wrong, The temperatures have flattened out from the late 90's and someone has messed with the databases so the numbers reflected are not 2 but some other integer. But the awnser is still 4. What the 4 represents is money in someones pocket, not yours or mine, but those who produced the numbers, and tailored their information to fit the 4, they added a little here, took away a little there, and canned all the scientist who would not add the little here or take away the little there.....so where does that leave you, you cannot trust the numbers, the "auditors" of the field cannot be trusted, the teachers of the field cannot be trusted, the books or the research of the field cannot be trusted, but they are passing laws that make you comply with the research... And then you look at what they are proposing, population control, as the end all... without someplace else to go to... where do you think this will end?
You know, they may be right, let the sick die, let the poor die, cut the CO2 to 200 ppm, then the plant will stop producing O2, and we all go...
"The "suspicion" of CO2 as a warming agent is based on the physics of CO2, specifically its property of absorbing infrared radiation which is easily measured in the laboratory. Why would you think it wouldn't do the same thing in the atmosphere or what is it in the Earth system that negates the effect?"
Because a laboratory is not an atmosphere. It doesn't contain all the factors that affect surface temperature, such as clouds, for example, which increase the albedo of the earth, and are a much larger factor in temperature change than CO2. In fact, the climate warmists acknowledge that the actual heat directly generated by infrared radiation of CO2 is inconsequential. They had to invent the "positive water vapor feedback" amplifier to give CO2 actual warming power. That theory has only been "proven" by computer modeling, which is widely recognized to be completely inadequate to the problem at hand.