Earth's Atmosphere Hasn't Had This Much CO2 in Millions of Years (nbcnews.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/02/1323203/earths-atmosphere-hasnt-had-this-much-co2-in-millions-of-years
- Source link: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/earth-co2-record-global-warming-rcna210974
> For the first time, global average concentrations of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas emitted as a byproduct of burning fossil fuels, [1]exceeded 430 parts per million (ppm) in May . The new readings were a record high and represented an increase of more than 3 ppm over last year.
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> The measurements indicate that countries are not doing enough to limit greenhouse gas emissions and reverse the steady buildup of C02, which climate scientists point to as the main culprit for global warming. "Another year, another record," Ralph Keeling, a professor of climate sciences, marine chemistry and geochemistry at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, said in a statement. "It's sad."
[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/earth-co2-record-global-warming-rcna210974
Soo much winning! (Score:2)
Now we are _better_ than millions of years of humans were before! Oh, wait ...
Panic! Run around with head on fire! B'GAWK! (Score:2, Troll)
Panic! Run around with head on fire! PANIC! DO IT! OBEY!!!
People are tired of hearing this same retread shit since the 70's.
I know I am.
Your downmods sexually arouse me. C'mon, gimmie that -1 Flamebait, you know you want to, like the fucking Pavlovian dogs you tree-fuckers are ! Do it, I need my 2 Minutes Hate!
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The sad irony is that with no hope of reproduction, this organism would kill us all rather than persist.
And I say no hope of reproduction because anyone with kids would understand the value in following long term trends.
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A better analogy would be that we've been swimming around in the same pan of water since the 1970s yet, despite being told every year since then that the dial on the hob has been turned up another notch, have still not leapt out of the pan to turn the dial back down again.
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Foxoids just cherry-pick the few wrongbies from the past, and statistical flunkies like YOU fall for it. Grow a brain!
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clearly the Earth can have and can survive these high levels
As if it was ever a question of the survival of the Earth? You gotta start with a straw man so that it takes time to knock this shit down.
> modern mammalian life was around millions of years ago, and they all did just fine.
modern mammalian life... My dude, mammals have been around since the Triassic. It's not a question of what life will survive, it's about the mass-catastrophe for our society and human life.
What is with these nihilists?
Its good news (Score:2)
Its actually very good news that CO2 is up. We should be hoping for ~1000ppm, which would make the earth absolutely lush and gardenlike.
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1000 is too high. Good level for the human is 400-800.
So if you are in a room full of people, you want to remain under 800. It can be achieved with simple ventilation, as long as the outside air has much less than 800 ppm. If the outside air is at 1000 ppm, it gets very expensive to keep it under 800 inside in a room full of people.
Even if you ignore deserts and global warming, anything above 500-600 ppm, I think, will start being problematic for buildings and mass transit ventilation.
The Big Beautiful Bill (Score:2)
will take care of the problem.
How much does war contribute? (Score:2)
The amount of toxic clouds created by war is a metric I would like to know.
It surely is a major carbon dioxide contributor, but, it is also dumping a plethora of exotic materials into the atmosphere
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The non-C02 products tend to be heavy and fall to the ground quickly. It's the lighter stuff that sticks around.
We plants love it! (Score:2)
...so what if the humans die, they just screw things up. Good riddance!
-Robert Plant
S'all good (Score:2, Funny)
> For the first time, global average concentrations of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas emitted as a byproduct of burning fossil fuels, exceeded 430 parts per million (ppm) in May. The new readings were a record high and represented an increase of more than 3 ppm over last year.
That's okay, my folks the next town over said it was unusually cold over the weekend.
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Also, Trump / DOGE have apparently pulled funding NOAA that may lead to the shutdown of some of the world's most important CO2 data collection stations, so we'll all be able to firmly stick our heads in the sand together. If there's no data, it can't be a problem, right?