And April was rather cool in the Northern hemisphere
(CNN) Carbon dioxide (CO2), the No. 1 greenhouse gas leading to man-made global warming, has reached a dubious new milestone.
The level of the gas in the atmosphere, which is measured by instruments on top of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory, topped 410 parts per million (ppm) for the month of April.
This is the highest concentration of the heat-trapping gas ever recorded at the Observatory, where direct measurements have been taking place for more than 60 years, giving us the longest detailed record.
Passing 410 ppm “is important because it punctuates another milestone in the upwards march of CO2,” according to Ralph Keeling, head of the Scripps CO2 program at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California.
“At the recent pace, we’ll hit 450 ppm in a mere 16 years, and 500 ppm 20 years after that. That’s well within dangerous territory for the climate system,” Keeling added.
Wait, I thought 350 ppm was the doom number? No? And if it hits 450 ppm, and there is no doom, they’ll just move the number. Just like when they told us 400 ppm was doom.
The Paris Climate Agreement of 2015, which President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of in 2017, set out a global action plant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and hopefully keep the global average temperature below two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels.
In reality, most of the Paris signaturies aren’t doing a whole lot, just taxing citizens and giving some of the money to other nations.
Oh, and just because I ran across this bit of insanity
Our planet is dying and I believe trump has everything to do with it idc we didn’t have this much shit going on with climate change and weird ass weather before but now he in office volcanoes erupting , millions of earth quakes, fake snow , glaciers melting faster than ever
— J????R (@_fuckingMILF) May 4, 2018
Yikes.
And yet, for TEACHs bluster, the Earth continues to warm as CO2 increases. As predicted.
TEACH incorrectly claims that 350 ppm was the “doom” level, when actually it was a target to limit changes caused by global warming.
We were supposed to have been underwater and starved to death by now.
Can’t wait until one of the “warnings” actually comes to pass.
It’s like the deficit. Every milestone is doom. Then we just move the doom number up again and forget about it until next time we need to move the doom number. Or like all those time the climate scientists told us we were nearing the point of no return. then we pass it. Well, if we are past it, that’s a relief. If nothing can be done to change it, then it would be futile and foolish to try to change it. Basic logic. Better to invest our remaining energy into better air conditioning or warmer sweaters, whichever “science” tells us we need.
Looks like the obvious solution is to genetically modify humans to inhale CO2 and exhale O2.
This is CNN…