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Is the new level of CO2 in the atmosphere cause for alarm?

  • Yes. It hasn't been all that bad--until now.

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Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have reached 400 PPM.

Is it time to sound the warning siren for our planet?
 
According to the Law Of Big Round Scary Looking Numbers, the increase in AGM from 399 to 400 ppm is somehere around 1,000% greater than that of 400-501 as measured in NS (pronounced "neus". Official term: "News Stories")
 
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have reached 400 PPM.

Is it time to sound the warning siren for our planet?

Was 2012 the 15th or 16th year in a row temperatures failed to rise according to predictions?
 
I would have answered I don't know, but if we are to assume ice core samples and other ways scientists measure historical atmospheric CO2 are accurate, then I do sincerely wonder what environmental consequences there could be from such an upswing in atmospheric and oceanic CO2.

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Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have reached 400 PPM.

Is it time to sound the warning siren for our planet?

I'm actually more concerned about Al Gore polluting the environment and making $millions off the gullible.
 
I blame the butterflies. Every time one of those flaps its wings, something bad happens somewhere.
 
5 - We simply don't know as yet, more study is needed.
 
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have reached 400 PPM.

Is it time to sound the warning siren for our planet?

Isn't this getting kind of old? Global temperatures haven't gone up significantly for the past 15 or so years. Could you at least wait until there's actually a problem?
 
Isn't this getting kind of old? Global temperatures haven't gone up significantly for the past 15 or so years. Could you at least wait until there's actually a problem?

Ice caps melting faster than normal is not a problem?

Superstorms are not a problem.

The long droughts in the Midwest and the monster wildfires are not a problem?
 
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have reached 400 PPM.

Is it time to sound the warning siren for our planet?

Maybe, I don't know.

I will be dead long before this has potential serious consequences for me PLUS I try and do my part to be 'green' PLUS I have no intention of ever fathering children (I am not that selfish)...so I really don't care all that much.

If humanity ends due to it's own selfishness...then it is not worth saving and good riddance.

And if they are not that selfish...then they will fix the problem.

Either way...they will probably get what they deserve...and that is fine with me.


10 years ago I would have put money on the latter.

Now...I don't think I would.
 
Doesn't alarm me.

And the warning siren for this shtick has been sounding for years now.

It's a non-issue, so far as I am concerned.
 
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have reached 400 PPM.

Is it time to sound the warning siren for our planet?




Since I'm an old guy who won't be around when the poo-poo hits the fan, I'm not losing any sleep over this.

I do my best to be green, but I don't worry about what others do or don't do.
 
Ice caps melting faster than normal is not a problem?

Superstorms are not a problem.

The long droughts in the Midwest and the monster wildfires are not a problem?

No, because 1) Storms are no more violent than usual. 2) Droughts in the Midwest and wildfires are not out of the ordinary, 3) We don't know what's normal for ice caps because we've only been able to monitor them accurately for a relatively short time.

If you want to know what's happening with the temperature then look at a thermometer. The thermometer shows no warming in the last 15 years, so why would warming be causing all these changes to occur?

US Climatic History Page | Watts Up With That?

Scroll down for extremes of temperatures, storm intensity, drought, and other stuff.
 
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