Posted on 12/13/2009 1:33:57 PM PST by NormsRevenge
COPENHAGEN – As police cracked down on climate protesters, church bells tolled 350 times Sunday to impress on the U.N. global warming conference a number that is gaining a following, but is also awash in contradictions.
Conference negotiators, meanwhile, went behind closed doors in talks to pin down an elusive new pact on climate, talks in which the figure 350 looms as a goal for true believers, but one that appears impossible based on progress so far.
It refers to 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the highest concentration that some leading scientists say the world can handle without sparking dangerous climate effects.
"It's the most important number in the world," said Bill McKibben, founder of the environmental activist group 350.org. "It's the line between habitability on this planet and a really, really desolate future."
Not everyone buys into that.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Bon Appewtit!
Seth must be about partied out by now..
Environmental activists dressed up as CO2 molecules stage a protest in Berlin to coincide with the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. UN climate talks have shifted up a gear as ministers from 48 countries meet behind closed doors amid fresh protests a day after police arrested nearly 1,000 demonstrators in Copenhagen. (AFP/David Gannon)
Climate change demonstrators dressed as clowns hug a police officer outside the Danish Foreign Ministry during a climate march in Copenhagen. UN climate talks have shifted up a gear as ministers from 48 countries meet behind closed doors amid fresh protests a day after police arrested nearly 1,000 demonstrators in Copenhagen. (AFP/Adrian Dennis)
Climate change demonstrators gather outside The Parliament during the climate march in Copenhagen. Hundreds of demonstrators in six major Canadian cities held street marches Saturday to demand global warming solutions from world leaders attending the climate change summit in Copenhagen. (AFP/Adrian Dennis)
Why are the global warming nut carrying a snow man blimp?
“...350...a number that some leading scientists...”
Interesting use of the words “some” and “leading scientists”.
Translation:
“Some: = < 25% of the climate research crowd (if it’s indeed this much)
“Leading scientist” = a physicist who cannot hold any proper job in physics save for one funded by a government grant, who hides data, and who cannot support his conclusions unless vetted by another government grant physicist.
Someone should greet these fools with fire extinguishers.
Oh, and let us remember that the 350 stands for 3.1 one hundredths OF ONE PERCENT.
AND, the CO2 rise occurs AFTER any heat rise.
Inconvenient truths for lib arts majors and journalists.
Hint for climate change researchers: look up.
Oops, 3.5, not 3.1...but what are numbers when we’re dealing with liberals?
And how would we or any one else on earth know ...
numbers like 357 and 380 may come to mind for some. ;-)
What a utopia for green plants.
Sounds like a utopia for green plants. What they whining about?
The scary part is that these clowns are reproducing.
The first impression on seeing the massive number of professionally-printed signs and the elaborate costumes is that there is a high degree of organization and some serious money behind the “protestors.”
Church of Lies and Tyranny
There you have it. The reason we haven't seen global warming so far is because the CO2 levels haven't gone high enough to trigger it yet--but they're almost there.
Nice backtracking!!!! Nice way to cover the fact that there's no proof that current CO2 levels have any effect!!!
Exactly what are they basing this number on? I want to see all the data. I want to see all the algorithms and analysis. I don't trust any of these guys at all. I didn't trust them before Climategate, and I damn-sure don't trust any of them now.
My suspicion is that 350 was picked first, then justified by some very shaky (at best) "science." Why 350? Because it is just low enough to be a significant drop, requiring significant action. (ie. transfer of money and power, and redistribution of wealth) Yet it is not quite so low as to appear unreachable, which would cause people to blow it off as impossible. In short, I think it is an arbitrary, meaningless number.
Let's get rid of all of it!
Then, all vegetation will die!
Then, since the vegetation gives us oxygen and food, all herbivores will die and we will have trouble breathing!
But that's not a problem either because we won't have anything to eat....
Oh the beauty of it all...humans exterminated so the good old "Mother" Earth will never be abused again!
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