Source: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/weekly.html
Al Gore calls for a day of prayer and reflection, and bothering your neighbor:
So please, take this day and the milestone it represents to reflect on the fragility of our civilization and and the planetary ecosystem on which it depends. Rededicate yourself to the task of saving our future. Talk to your neighbors, call your legislator, let your voice be heard. We must take immediate action to solve this crisis. Not tomorrow, not next week, not next year. Now.
Scientific American laments the plants
This measurement is just the hourly average of CO2 levels high in the Hawaiian sky, but this family’s figures carry more weight than those made at other stations in the world as they have faithfully kept the longest record of atmospheric CO2. Arctic weather stations also hit the hourly 400 ppm mark last spring and this one. Regardless, the hourly levels at Mauna Loa will soon drop as spring kicks in across the northern hemisphere, trees budding forth an army of leaves hungrily sucking CO2 out of the sky.
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In the coming year, Scientific American will run an occasional series, “400 ppm,” to examine what this invisible line in the sky means for the global climate, the planet and all the living things on it, including human civilization.
Sorry, we already beat you to it when it comes to summing up what it means:
Since the world hasn’t ended (just like what happened with Y2K) we can now go forward from here.
T-shirts saying “I survived 400 PPM” will be made available if there’s enough interest in comments.
UPDATE: T-shirts now available due to popular demand. See here:
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Not too late for Bill McKibben to lay claim to 450.org and 500.org.
Global temperature down; CO2 up.
That’s why the tax-grubbing scaremongers are now called catastrophic anthropomorphic “climate change” alarmists (CACCA) instead of CA “global warming” advocates, which isn’t as catchy.
How about smearing chloroplast-bearing cyanobacteria in an attractive blue-green slime across our roofs instead of PV cells? Just add water.
Lawrence Livermore “Fact Sheet” on Co2:
They go on to repeat boilerplate about the theorized danger of too much Co2, but being near the lower bound of what we need is far from having too much.
“And everyone will remember the day when CO2 passed 400ppm.” Yeah, right.
As non-events go, it’s right up there with George Washington’s best friend’s cousin’s birthday.
I want a tee.
400 parts per million . . . . jeez, that’s 0.04% of the atmosphere.
Does this mean that someone will announce that 99.96% of the atmosphere is not CO2?
Not tomorrow, not next week, not next year. Now
Aren’t you supposed to go from largest to smallest when you use this type of “pleading, wake up people” expression. In other words, “Not next year, not next week, not tomorrow. Now!”. He might as well have stopped with “Not tomorrow” since that also covers next week and next year.
I’m sure lots of people have seen the graphic that shows the earth, and shows all the water on the earth, depicted as a ball. Could we have one like that for CO2?
Does anyone actually think Al Gore believes what he says or is he delusional?
Definitely need a tee.
IF plants could think and feel, I’m sure they would be upset that we’re a long way from their ideal point of 1,000 to 2,000 PPM. ;-))
There must be a party somewhere celebrating a trace gas becoming “more trace”. I’ll hoist a cup of grog tonight in honor of that party.
Simple, the whole controversy was spawned by computer models so the concentration ought to be in hexadecimal which is only 189 per parts per F0000
(Didn’t Anthony promise us an edit button a while back?)
REPLY: No, never. Not possible when hosted on wordpress.com as I have explained many many many times. – Anthony
One more time, folks: Mauna Loa IS an active volcano. Why should carbon dioxide or any other volcanic gas be a surprise in just about any concentration? The wind blows like Billy-O (to use a Brit expression) most days. And Mauna Loa pumps out a lot of volcanic gases.
And just downslop a tad, Kilauea is in quite a stir and has been erupting since January 1983.
I’d like a tee, please, with said text and a cuddly polar bear graphic.
Oh and one other thing. Of the 0.04% of the total atmosphere being CO2 (400 ppm), 96.775% of this total 400 ppm is still naturally occurring. No change. Still the same.
Why does this totally insignificant 3.225% man-made contribution of atmospheric CO2 continue to make Al Gore rant “Action to solve this crisis. Not tomorrow, not next week, not next year. Now.”
This people are not just idiots. They are retarded.
It is beyond their capacity to see that trying to generate fear and loathing over a number that is a complete abstraction to virtually everyone on the planet, including “decision makers”, not only will fail, it will consolidate their image as manipulators and cranks.
Quite apart from the fact that Armageddon has already supposedly been triggered by the previously ominous and devastating figure of 350.
Does the dog need a home?
We can laugh, but the fact is that this lends support to AGW alarmism. We hear everywhere (and it seems constantly) that 2010 was the hottest year in the last 150 (with implications that it was the hottest EVER). Many of us don’t deny that information, as we are still recovering from the LIA. While a few organizations are looking for the missing heat, they are looking for the upper extremes the models predicted. The theme has not changed: temperatures are still rising with no end in sight, and potentially will hit that ‘tipping point’ soon where it will run away. It’s not just climate change – it is still global warming. The target is city folk, who have no idea what a plant needs to grow, and that jungles are lush because they are hot. (They are also humid, of course, but so is the Pacific Northwest, and it is no jungle.)
It is not just the ignorant, however. I have many friends with advanced scientific degrees and no ties to AGW funding who are convinced that the planet is indeed in a warming spiral. They are quick to point out that if solar activity is declining, and the temperatures are still rising, there is a problem, and thank God the sun is quiet or the models would probably be indicating far less than the actual temperatures.
We do need to maintain skepticism – not only about AGW, but toward some of the posts here. Some of the references don’t seem to support the theme, and followups by the referenced organization frequently state data was taken out of context, or was premature. Those are valid comments.
Y2K? That seems pretty light. I suppose the younger folks might not relate to all the disasters their elders have survived. If memory serves, I’ve survived (so far)
Impending Ice Age
Ozone Depletion
Acid Rain
Toxic Rain
Y2K
Bird Flu
Swine Flu
Global Economic Collapse (fossil fuel depletion)
Global Starvation (population exceeding food supply)
Impending Warm Age
I wonder if it is a cycle of some sort? Does Impending Warm Age get followed directly by Impending Ice Age? Perhaps the tee shirt should be in a circle with dates for each and ending in an arrow pointing back to the start?
The plaintive (“fragility”) language and inward-looking appeals to “go out” with the DEMAND of the faithful to act, rather than the confidence to think they will, being carried by the tide of history and common cause, tells all about the current internal workings of the organism known as ALGORE.
I can never understand why a reading of CO2 from Hawaii is so significant due to the smouldering volcano there which surely spews off some CO2 from time to time. Hmmm, I wonder if the question is rhetorical.
With this volcanic activity why does Hawaii bother
with wind generation?
Alfred