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| From | jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.physics |
| Subject | Re: Record Levels of CO2 Herald the Future of Climate Change |
| Date | 2015-11-10 19:29 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <b6t9hc-she.ln1@mail.specsol.com> (permalink) |
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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote: > Record Levels of CO2 Herald the Future of Climate Change Hark the herald angels sing... >> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/record-levels-of-co2-herald-the-future-of-climate-change/ > > >> The Earth's climate has changed. After nearly two centuries of fossil >> fuel burning, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have >> reached 400 parts-per-million, especially boosted by the seemingly >> ever-accelerating amount of combustion in the last few decades >> according to the World Meteorological Organization. Atmospheric CO2 >> concentrations of 0.04 percent may not seem like much but it is >> enough to have already raised average global temperatures by a full >> degree Celsius, according to the U.K.'s Met Office, with more warming >> on the way as the greenhouse gas lingers invisibly in the atmosphere, >> trapping heat, or mixing into the ocean, rendering waters more >> acidic. Yet it is still alkaline. >> In fact, the world has not seen CO2 concentrations this high in at >> least hundreds of thousands of years. Roughly 35 billion metric tons Just like the good old days... >> of CO2 are spewed into the atmosphere each year?and rising. The >> waters of the global ocean have become 30 percent more acidic in the >> last few decades and the world has not been this warm in thousands of >> years. 2015 is likely to be the hottest year since record keeping >> began thanks to an El Nino weather pattern that?s taking place in >> addition to global warming. The top 10 warmest years have all >> occurred since 1998, which was the year of the last major El Nino. >> >> Worse, farming, forest-clearing and other activities have contributed >> to emissions of other greenhouse gases, such as methane and nitrous >> oxide, more commonly known as laughing gas, which is no laughing >> matter in the atmosphere. Take a hit of nitrous and mellow out, spamming troll. -- Jim Pennino
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Record Levels of CO2 Herald the Future of Climate Change Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-10 13:12 -0600 Re: Record Levels of CO2 Herald the Future of Climate Change jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-10 19:29 +0000 Re: Record Levels of CO2 Herald the Future of Climate Change Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2015-11-10 12:47 -0800
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