Posted on Jul 6, 2017
Goodbye World: We’ve Passed the Carbon Tipping Point For Good
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Alright, I'll be that guy. Yep, we've definitely got a spike in CO2, higher than they've measured from... what, core samples, I guess? And while that may be harmful, to say it's never going to dip again because 4 years it's been steady? That graph goes back 400,000 years. That's not even representative of 1% of 1% of the measured time of however they've been measuring CO2 levels, not to mention that it's versus today where they can directly measure those levels in air. And they still measured spikes and dips in the CO2 levels in the past (emphasis on dips).
Honestly, this fear-mongering gets tiresome. Can we be doing better about emissions? Yeah, and we should, and we probably will. No one likes smog. But end of the world? Never coming back from this point? Please.
Honestly, this fear-mongering gets tiresome. Can we be doing better about emissions? Yeah, and we should, and we probably will. No one likes smog. But end of the world? Never coming back from this point? Please.
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Col Joseph Lenertz
Agree. The number of interrelated positive and negative feedbacks to the global heat equation, set against the consistency of predictive failures, make this prediction just another chicken little cluck. Also agree we should reduce pollution, and find ways to reduce emissions wherever we can.
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CO2 levels during Cambrian times were far greater than today. Where did all that CO2 go? Oh yeah, plants grew to epic proportions thriving on it. Interestingly, there are more trees growing in the US today than when the first Europeans arrived. I wonder what that could portend?
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MCPO Roger Collins
Same place that it always went. Storage into plants and trees. Why is it that there are millions of tons of greenhouse gasses emitted each year and none can be found lying around? I have brought your point up in the past, CPT, no possibility of penetration.
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SSG (Join to see)
Seems no body wants to bring up that CO2 levels were 10 times today's levels at one time, I also find it hard to believe they are blaming extinctions on CO2 levels, man has been depleting animal habitat's for hundreds of years and competing with other species. CO2 levels have very little to do with extinction rates.
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MCPO Roger Collins
I'm far more concerned that a killer asteroid will hit us and really destroy the planet than our destroying life on this planet.
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