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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

#531847 — Record Levels of CO2 Herald the Future of Climate Change

Record Levels of CO2 Herald the Future of Climate Change
> 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.
>
> In fact, the world has not seen CO2 concentrations this high in at
> least hundreds of thousands of years. Roughly 35 billion metric tons
> 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.





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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.

 

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Jim Pennino

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#531868

On Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 11:12:56 AM UTC-8, Sam Wormley wrote:
> Record Levels of CO2 Herald the Future of Climate Change
> > 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.
> >
> > In fact, the world has not seen CO2 concentrations this high in at
> > least hundreds of thousands of years. Roughly 35 billion metric tons
> > 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.


I would be more worried about depletion of the oxygen.

Double-A

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