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:
Sign me up for a T-shirt!
The truly stupid (as in ironic) thing is man-made climate-apocalypse alarmists are the ones who believe the climate is meant to stay the same, more or less, for now anyway.
However, those who doubt the AGW hypothesis believe that the climate can and does change, a lot, due to natural cycles. Most of us believe it is changing now, as we speak (to a cooling trend, based on the data that shows despite higher CO2, warming has paused, and also based on analyses of other forcing factors). Not only do we believe it changes, we believe we are unlikely to be able to stop it from changing.
In fact, we find that idea bordering on absurd.
And yet you geniuses came up with the term climate change deniers.
Which is irrational on its face, and well-illustrates your thought processes.
Composition of air:
http://i50.tinypic.com/2j3h6de.jpg
dbstealey says:
May 10, 2013 at 1:28 pm
And this chart will help bring you back down to earth.
http://suyts.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/image_thumb265.png?w=636&h=294
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at first I didn’t get it cause the picture was kind of small. 130 years of GISS temps and you need a magnifying glass to see the change. You would be very hard pressed to notice so little a difference on your average outside thermometer around the house.
If anything GISS is strong evidence that there is no climate change in 130 years. It is only when you blow the scale up to a fraction of a degree that any change can be seen.
Should I now change my mantra from “toward 700ppm” to
“Toward 800ppm”
Unfortunately, I doubt we are ever likely to get there 🙁
AFTERTHOUGHT: The hockey-stick graph shenanigans, etc., were designed to make it seem as if climate doesn’t change much.
It does.
And Fred,,, GISS is the most manipulated temperature series around. Massive adjustments to create the trend from the mid 1900’s .. just to support the cause.
Well, they can’t adjust much any more because the satellite record would show them up big time.
… and the temperature has been basically steady ever since.
I meant Ferd, not Fred… sorry !
For the older readers, ring a Bell?: Climate = “99 and 44/100 %” not CO2.
“Close enough for Government work”.
Anthony,
You forgot to mention this embarassing front-page hysterical headline piece in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/science/earth/carbon-dioxide-level-passes-long-feared-milestone.html?ref=global-home
What makes you think carbonists can remember what was on the front of a T shirt by the time they walk around to the back?
Ha ha. I can just see Gore now …. knocking on the door of his neighbor to discuss how they may avert CO2 rising higher than 400ppm ….. http://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/real-estate/feature-641517.php
Christoph, Its only by pulling the 1930-40 down that they can create anything other than a dip through the 1970’s.. The temps now seem to be reasonably similar to the REAL temps of the 19030-40s..
Up and down goes the temperature, its just come up a bit, just about to start going down a bit.
Ferdinand Engelbeen says:
May 10, 2013 at 4:31 pm
Nature was a net sink for CO2, not a source over the past 50 years (at least).
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Humans are part of nature.
What you say was assumed true, based on limited evidence. However, satellite monitoring has shown the industrialized counties to be a net sink for CO2 as they are regrowing their forests. The poor countries of the 3rd world that are burning their forests fuel and farmland and along with the tropical oceans are the net source of increased CO2.
Reminds me of the hype over sequestering. Didn’t good old you know who predict economic Armageddon in the US if it went ahead? Did all he could to punish everyone for failing to toe the line. Just to show everyone how right he had been. How stupid we all had been to not get on-board with his ideas.
Yet, strangely the sun continues to rise in the morning. Who’d have thunk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids John Wynham 1951 It has influenced those with a non scientific outlook since then.
Thanks David. I survived them too. Maybe we should put this on a tee:
10 Impending Ice Age
20 Ozone Depletion
30 Acid Rain
40 Toxic Rain
50 Y2K
60 Bird Flu
70 Swine Flu
80 Global Economic Collapse (fossil fuel depletion)
90 Global Starvation (population exceeding food supply)
100 Catastrophic AGW
110 Goto 10
Much larger changes happen, Andy.
“Rededicate yourself to the task of saving our future. Talk to your neighbors, call your legislator, let your voice be heard.”
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Nicely said, that is why I am here.
I’ll never forget exactly where I was when I heard…
1. Kennedy was assasinated,
2. the space shuttle Challenger exploded,
3. the Twin Towers fell, and
4. CO2 levels reached 400 ppm!
On second thought… scratch that last one.
@ur momisugly Louis Hooffstetter
Everyone else will, when they are freezing due to the subdued solar cycle.
The boys have been preparing for this moment for years. Let the propaganda begin
@Louis Hooffstetter … and Y2K.
Earthquake in the Midwest soon to be reported ?
Totally agree, Al old chap. Jetsetting alarmists shouldn’t be allowed to jetset any more while spouting alarmism and “do as i say not as I do” rhetoric. There oughta be a law…
These people are not just idiots. They are retarded.
Wrong diagnosis. These people are malevolent, in pursuit of their own interests. Al Gore doesn’t believe the carp he spews; he makes money from it. The EPA doesn’t care a darn about the environment, just more micro-control of society; a bigger and better funded EPA.
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I fully agree. Retardation and malevolence are not mutually exclusive.
In this example though, I think retardation has the upper hand. In any case, apart from the active originators and strategists, there are definitley those for whom retardation is the defining quality, who can be used to cheer for victory. It’s a broad church, at least in relation to the dysfunctional and criminal.
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Actually CO2 Zombie Apocalypse describes the alarmist crowd the best.