Marijuana potency increased last year to the highest level in more than 30 years, posing greater health risks to people who may view the drug as harmless, according to a report released Thursday by the White House.

The latest analysis from the University of Mississippi’s Potency Monitoring Project tracked the average amount of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, in samples seized by law enforcement agencies from 1975 through 2007. It found that the average amount of THC reached 9.6 percent in 2007, compared with 8.75 percent the previous year.

The 9.6 percent level represents more than a doubling of marijuana potency since 1983, when it averaged just under 4 percent.

Could someone plot that over the Mauna Loa co2 graph? It sounds alot like what was reported about poison oak potency. Both are based on the oil of the plant.
I realize that the media only mentioned co2 enhancement of poison oak for the propaganda value, they wanted to cast plant augmentation in the most negative light they could think up.
Funny that no where do they link it to the pot enhancement.
It has to have the same effect though.

In addition one would have to study the weather at the time.Maybe it was very cold and some of the CO2 was picked up by the oceans. Actually why does one need proxys for CO2 in WW2. They were measuring CO2 directly in the 1800s already. All this CO2 business is very suspect. Particularly as nobody is making the effort to give us world maps of CO2. I have only found one of July 2003 which is very interesting, but could not find any other months or years.

There was so much more heavy industry during WWII than in the years preceding it. Vehicles (AFVs, trucks etc.), planes, ships. If there were shortages, it was not because less coal was mined, it was because it was being consumed by the Rustung.

And there were plenty of ships. Continuous convoys. The whole of the British, US, and Japanese merchant fleets were going all-out, with losses being replaced (via smoky shipyards).

50 million died, but I doubt that would have had much impact on CO2, especially as the bulk of those deaths came in the last two years.

I can’t believe less coal and oil was being consumed in WII than during the Great Depression. And all those cities . . . we incinerated urban Japan.

It may be better than even you think.

According to Lord Monckton (as a result of some of his inconvenient and most unwelcome peer review), the IPCC in it latest AR4 supplement, has drastically reduced its sea level rise predictions. They did their sums wrong!

The Monck (an official IPCC reviewer) commented, with considerable irony, “I have finally earned my Nobel Prize.”

Government intervention is far more likely to cause massive loss of life than changes in the climate. Whether it gets hotter or colder is not really the crucial issue. It is whether some will impose their ideas on others via the government which at rock bottom is FORCE.

a good rule of thumb: Good ideas do not have to be forced on others and bad ones should not be.

If nothing else, the current scientific debate should tell us that the climate and its effects on mankind are very complicated and subtle. This is NO time for heavy handed dictation from human governments.

Where are you getting the numbers from? Science fiction documentaries?

The IPCC report, found in full in http://www.ipcc.ch, gives only something like 40 to 60 cms in 100 years. That is about how much the sea level changes with normal seasonal rhythms in my area ( Greece) and nobody builds so low as to be affected by such rises.

The numbers you quote are for 1000 years hence, if the models are correct, which is another story. They have been falsified on several fronts.

So instead of questioning our credulity check on yours, and please give a scientific link for these 7 meters.