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Carbon dioxide level highest in 650,000 years
Mongabay.com ^
| 11/24/2005
| Staff
Posted on 11/25/2005 6:41:59 PM PST by writer33
Carbon dioxide levels are now 27 percent higher than at any point in the last 650,000 years, according to research into Antarctic ice cores published on Thursday in Science.
Analysis of carbon dioxide in the ancient Antarctic ice showed that at no point in the past 650,000 years did levels approach today's carbon dioxide concentrations of around 380 parts per million (ppm). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels could reach 450-550 ppm by 2050, possibly resulting in higher temperatures and rising sea levels (see "Ocean levels rising twice as fast"). There is fear that climate change could create a class of environmental refugees displaced from their homes by rising oceans, increasingly catastrophic weather, and expanding deserts.
Carbon dioxide is the principal "greenhouse" gas thought to be driving global warming. Humans boost carbon dioxide levels primarily by the combustion of fossils fuels and deforestation, and accordingly, atmospheric concentrations have risen sharply since the industrial revolution. Today the United States, the world's largest economy and consumer of energy, produces about 24% of global carbon dioxide emissions.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crevolist; fud; globalwarming; scam; scaretactics
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We're doomed. We're all doomed! You're not going to enjoy your Thanksgiving weekend!
:) HA!
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posted on
11/25/2005 6:42:00 PM PST
by
writer33
To: writer33
All right, let's call off the Industrial Revolution and go back to a hunter-gatherer society.
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posted on
11/25/2005 6:46:14 PM PST
by
Altair333
(Stop illegal immigration: George Allen in 2008)
To: writer33
If only the politicians would save us.
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posted on
11/25/2005 6:46:14 PM PST
by
GBA
(I believe Congressman Weldon! MSM do your job.)
To: Altair333
Finally, someone who gets it. Maybe, we can do away with electricity, plumbing, etc...
Things'll be great then. Good eye, A.
:)
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posted on
11/25/2005 6:47:33 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: GBA
That's right. Why isn't our government doing anything about this looming disaster? I know my whole Thanksgiving has gone down the tubes because of it.
I don't know if I can go back to work Monday.
:)
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posted on
11/25/2005 6:48:23 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: writer33
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posted on
11/25/2005 6:48:24 PM PST
by
Michael Goldsberry
(Lt. Bruce C. Fryar USN 01-02-70 Laos)
To: writer33; Clemenza; rmlew; Yehuda; firebrand; nutmeg
If liberals and mooselimbs stopped breathing it would go a long way to cutting carbon dioxide emmissions in half. It would also lower the amount of hot air in the atmosphere.
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posted on
11/25/2005 6:48:39 PM PST
by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
To: writer33
and everything that breathes produces the other 76%
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posted on
11/25/2005 6:48:55 PM PST
by
xcamel
(a system poltergeist stole it.)
To: writer33
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posted on
11/25/2005 6:50:29 PM PST
by
Swordmaker
(Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs.)
To: writer33
So CO-2 levels are the highest they've been in the last 650,000 years ... isn't live grand?! If carbon dioxide levels were much lower, we'd probably have a colder, dryer atmosphere - and that's not good at all.
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posted on
11/25/2005 6:52:01 PM PST
by
Ken522
To: writer33
Carbon dioxide levels are now 27 percent higher than at any point in the last 650,000 years
"...CO2 levels have not been this high since 650,000 years ago, when the last human industrial expansion took place."
To: Ken522
All those school kids playing with dry ice too....
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posted on
11/25/2005 6:53:17 PM PST
by
xcamel
(a system poltergeist stole it.)
To: writer33
Carbon dioxide level highest in 650,000 years
My backyard monitor says 649,648 years. I won't be able to sleep until I find that missing 352 years.
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posted on
11/25/2005 6:54:37 PM PST
by
crazyhorse691
(Diplomacy doesn't work when seagulls rain on your parade. A shotgun and umbrella does.)
To: Michael Goldsberry
You're right. Bush hasn't done a thing, and I want someting done now. Not to mention he's polluting more of the clean, pristine, Iraq environment with his war.
:)
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posted on
11/25/2005 6:54:50 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: writer33
I knew that I should have put the cap back on the Pepsi bottle.
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posted on
11/25/2005 6:54:56 PM PST
by
HereInTheHeartland
(Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or a Democrat to do serious work...)
To: Cacique
I'm with Cacique.
Good idea. :)
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posted on
11/25/2005 6:55:22 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: xcamel
And that's why we're doomed. Everyone should stop breathing.
I'm scared and I want you to be scared too.
:)
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posted on
11/25/2005 6:57:37 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: Swordmaker
I guess that's better than having a bone to pick with anyone.
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posted on
11/25/2005 6:58:06 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: Ken522
If this doesn't scare you, I don't know what will, Ken.
:)
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posted on
11/25/2005 6:58:38 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
To: billybudd
"...CO2 levels have not been this high since 650,000 years ago, when the last human industrial expansion took place."And that's why we need to regress, back to a better America, where we grew crops and were one with the Earth. :)
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posted on
11/25/2005 6:59:43 PM PST
by
writer33
(Rush Limbaugh walks in the footsteps of giants: George Washington, Thomas Paine and Ronald Reagan.)
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