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Global Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach New Monthly Record

mrflash818 writes: For the first time since we began tracking carbon dioxide in the global atmosphere, the monthly global average concentration of carbon dioxide gas surpassed 400 parts per million in March 2015, according to NOAA's latest results. “It was only a matter of time that we would average 400 parts per million globally,” said Pieter Tans, lead scientist of NOAA’s Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network. “We first reported 400 ppm when all of our Arctic sites reached that value in the spring of 2012. In 2013 the record at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory first crossed the 400 ppm threshold. Reaching 400 parts per million as a global average is a significant milestone."

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  1. Wierd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I thought we were addressing the Co2 problem with all the green energy initiatives and carbon taxes? Oh you mean that no one is really doing that, and it is just business as usual, while the middle class pays for it all? That is what I thought.

  2. The Jurassic DGW, Dinosaurogenic Global Warming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    The Jurassic period. O2 in atmosphere was 130% modern levels. CO2 was at 1950ppm, 5-7 times modern levels. The temperature was a whole 3 DEGREES C over modern times! Oh no! The Jurassic DGW, Dinosaurogenic Global Warming, shows that those Dinosaurs - with their Airplanes, SUVs, Coal Fire Plants and Cars and stuff, you know, those Dinosaurs and their DGW destroyed THE WHOLE PLANET!! With their DGW! Look, who wants 26% atmospheric oxygen? More air to breathe? Who wants that? And who wants more CO2 @1950 ppm, you know, to make all those plants and trees convert that CO2 into a higher O2! Who wants that! And we DON'T want the massive biodiversity of the Jurassic, no, we don't want more plants and animals and trees, no.
    Any time period the warmunists want to "prove" there is AGW the warmunists just cherry pick ranges. And now I give the warmunists what the need on a silver platter - now they have the perfect example - the Dinosaurs and their horrible DGW (Dinosauric Global Warming) that destroyed the Jurassic... Wait, no, it didn't, it was the best time for life on earth with 1950 ppm atmospheric CO2!

    Debt is Wealth. Ignorance is Strength. Freedom is Slavery. War is Peace. Cold is Warm.

    Another Cult of the Church of Climatology propaganda piece with High Priest Al Goreleone's nod of approval.

       

  3. Re:"The Polar Bears will be fine" by Crashmarik · · Score: 0, Troll

    So having unreliable models that don't predict the future is your grounds for moving us ever closer to totalitarian state.

    WoW. Insert Ben Franklin Quote about freedom security etc etc

  4. Bit to belabor the obvious by Crashmarik · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who in their right mind situates an atmospheric sampling site in the middle of a chain of active volcanoes ?