Greenhouse Gas Milestone; CO2 Levels Set Record

By | May 13, 2013

  • May 13, 2013 at 1:41 pm
    Dennis J. Byrne says:
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    Chances appear remote that the United States, or any other major emitter of carbon dioxide, such as China or Europe, will take aggressive steps to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Rules to cut emissions from power plants, the biggest emitters of carbon dioxide in the U.S. have stalled so far in the Obama administration. Senate Republicans have blocked voting on the president’s nominee to run the Environmental Protection Agency, in part because of her earlier work to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to signal their resistance to future efforts. Consumption of coal in the U.S. has fallen, but exports to power plants in China and India have risen. “This needs to be a wake-up call. If we don’t reduce carbon soon, we may no longer talk about searing summer temperatures, 100-year storms and intense droughts as something unusual because they may be the norm. When I started giving talks on climate change in the early 1990s, I was bemoaning the fact that carbon dioxide levels had reached just over 350 parts per million. Now I only wish for that level.” ~ Melanie Fitzpatrick, climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists.~

    • May 13, 2013 at 2:28 pm
      Dave says:
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      And China and India will continue to increase their usage of coal and other fossil fuels to produce energy for their growing middle classes. Any cut we might make (or have already made) in such usage will be more than offset by the increased usage in those two countries. And if we continue to reduce our usage of cheap energy and replace it with high cost Obama energy then we will also be shipping even more millions of manufacturing jobs to China and India. China will soon own us. And the standard of living here will be decimated.

  • May 13, 2013 at 2:10 pm
    Charlie says:
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    Beginning with the assertion that the Hawaii reading is 400 (it isn’t–I looked it up because Al Gore said it was factual–he’s never right), this entire piece is nonsense. Even if it were true, it would be a global shrug, and good for the plants.

    Where is the scientific proof the globe is warming? Quoting a “concerned scientist”–she concerned she is going to lose her grant money–is not a substitute for serious study. More and more people are looking at both sides of the issue, and finding the warm side wanting.

    • May 14, 2013 at 1:36 pm
      jw says:
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      “The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) revised its May 9 reading at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii, saying it remained fractions of a point below the level of 400 ppm, at 399.89.

      Individual readings at any of NOAA’s observation stations are subject to revision on a regular basis. Sometimes a data point is moved to another set when the sets are adjusted for the international date line.”

      Los Angeles Times
      By Geoffrey Mohan
      May 13, 2013, 9:40 a.m.

  • May 13, 2013 at 3:12 pm
    Breathe in, Don't breathe out says:
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    It won’t matter who the biggest emmiters are, it’s the people that will be blamed for it & pay the price.

  • May 14, 2013 at 4:19 pm
    Nan says:
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    There were naysayers about clear air and clean water back in the 1960s. Where would we be if we had thrown up our hands in defeat? Instead we tackled the problems and now our children are swimming in rivers that were polluted when we were children and many cites have healthier air to breathe. As a country we can tackle this problem. Why do so many Chinese want to immigrate to the USA? Becuase of our quality of life. They have to wear masks in many cities due to coal pollution. My daughter in LA gets a robo call (from her health insurance carrier) on her cell phone reminding her to take her inhaler on days that smog is predicted to be high. Why? To keep her out of the emergency room and keep their expenses down. Prudent investment of the health insurance company to send such a reminder.
    We are the greatest nation on earth and it will be a student now in high school or college who will be part of the solution! I believe in America and our young people to pay it forward.

  • May 14, 2013 at 11:32 pm
    stupid says:
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    If the level was this high 2 million and ten million years ago, what’s the problem? And how do they know anyway????????? I thought they just started testing in 1958??? The EPA and the UN is a sham. Skip that UN deal where we transfer billions more of our money to some crook in India, China or Africa to grow a forest.

  • May 15, 2013 at 1:21 pm
    wvagt says:
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    Wonder what caused the levels to be so high 2 million years ago? It certainly wasn’t burning coal – maybe dinosaur f**ts?
    The article makes the point (probably unintentionally) that so-called “climate change” is actually cyclical and influenced very little by human activity. I mean, if the level is the same now as it was 2 million years ago, what other conclusion can there be?



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