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    Carbon Dioxide Hits Record High in April


    Climate Change: Why Haven't We Done More?



    The average level of CO2 in the atmosphere for the first time topped 400 parts per million for a full month, according to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

    Last May, the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii for the first time measured carbon dioxide at greater than 400 parts per million, averaged over one day. C02 exceeded 400 parts per million two months earlier this year than last year, according to researchers at NOAA.

    But now we've hit an unwelcome milestone, with every day in April averaging more than 400 parts per million.

    It's likely this record-breaking moment marks the first time in 800,000 years that the Earth's atmosphere contained this much CO2.

    "We continue to turn the dial up on this ‘electric blanket’ of ours without knowing what the resulting temperatures will be,” said James Butler, director of the Global Monitoring Division of NOAA’s Boulder-based Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), in a statement released Friday.

    NOAA also released its Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI), Friday, which showed carbon dioxide levels, measured at 80 sites around the world, increased 1.5 percent between 2012 and 2013 -- and 34 percent since 1990.

    “We know that the world is getting warmer on average because of our continued emissions of heat-trapping gases," Butler said. "Turning down the dial on this heating will become increasingly more difficult as concentrations of the long-lived greenhouse gases continue to rise each year.”



    Source: http://news.discovery.com/earth/glob...ril-140502.htm



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    I don't doubt that CO2 is rising. I don't doubt that heat is building somewhere even if it's not always in the same place. I don't doubt it's probably a huge threat to our future as humans and our good old earth fauna and flora.

    What I DO doubt is the cause and effect narrative we are being made to gulp with great haste.

    It's never been shown to my satisfaction that heat follows CO2. There is plenty of 'scientific' argument that it's CO2 following heat.

    The fact that the planet is warmer is one thing. Why it is so, is another.

    Any increase in global temperature, for whatever external reason, will build up extra CO2 in the atmosphere. IF educated idiots go out and measure both heat and Co2 that's ok. It's only what should be expected. They are both rising, right ?

    Then along come a bunch of very untrustworthy characters who tell us WE are doing it with our cars and power stations etc etc etc.................

    And, we have to be restricted, to SAVE THE PLANET !

    I know that's not a hell of a lot of dots to join, right there, but it's enough make up my provisional thinking until someone bloody proves something.

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    NASA has released a striking visualization of how carbon dioxide flows around the world. In the simulation, plumes of the greenhouse gas gush into the atmosphere from major industrial centers, swirling from continent to continent on the winds of global weather systems.

    The simulation, which took 75 days to create on a supercomputer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, depicts CO2 emissions from May 2005 to June 2007. Its superhigh-resolution mapping—64 times as great as the average climate model—dramatically illustrates two often neglected facts.


    The red swirls in this video are carbon dioxide—most of which is emitted in the Northern Hemisphere.
    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...e-environment/


    { it's a computer simulation - highly unreliable, but interesting to look at }

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    Quote Originally posted by norman View Post
    NASA has released a striking visualization of how carbon dioxide flows around the world. In the simulation, plumes of the greenhouse gas gush into the atmosphere from major industrial centers, swirling from continent to continent on the winds of global weather systems.

    The simulation, which took 75 days to create on a supercomputer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, depicts CO2 emissions from May 2005 to June 2007. Its superhigh-resolution mapping—64 times as great as the average climate model—dramatically illustrates two often neglected facts.


    The red swirls in this video are carbon dioxide—most of which is emitted in the Northern Hemisphere.
    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...e-environment/


    { it's a computer simulation - highly unreliable, but interesting to look at }
    FWIW. 'Greenhouse gas' is a bit of a political term, IMO. Part of Agenda 21 speak. Pollution, toxic, poisonous pollution is the problem. CO2 is a distraction with a tax (revenue) scheme attached.
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    This is all matrix schlock science. Real, valid raw data is interpreted and presented in terms that find quick homes in programmed reality memes decades in the making.

    Political science used to be the study of politics. Now political science is what we get from scientists and lamestream media outlets like Discovery. Although, media and their outlets can be bellweathers for changes taking place that are hidden from plain sight.
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