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Worrying Rise in Global CO2 Forecast for 2019 (theguardian.com)
The level of climate-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is forecast to rise by a near-record amount in 2019, according to the Met Office. From a report: The increase is being fuelled by the continued burning of fossil fuels and the destruction of forests, and will be particularly high in 2019 due to an expected return towards El Nino-like conditions. This natural climate variation causes warm and dry conditions in the tropics, meaning the plant growth that removes CO2 from the air is restricted. Levels of the greenhouse gas have not been as high as today for 3-5m years, when the global temperature was 2-3C warmer and the sea level was 10-20 metres (32 to 64 feet) higher. Climate action must be increased fivefold to limit warming to the 1.5C rise above pre-industrial levels that scientists advise, according to the UN. But the past four years have been the hottest on record and global emissions are rising again after a brief pause.
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Sad thing is the crazy people who actually worry about this don't realize they are the butt of a colossal joke and actually get upset when you try to explain it to them.
What's funny, and I live in the great lakes area is that a few years ago they were going on about how the lakes were going to dry up and the water levels of the lakes had never been so low! They had been lower several times and in some cases for decades. Few years later, you had the same people screaming that it was global warming that caused the lakes to not freeze over - instead of a "stuck" high pressure system. Few years later it was so cold that we still had ice on the lakes in June and July, that was only a couple of years ago.
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Zat is weather not climate change. Da ?