CO2 levels pass 400ppm for the first time in 3-5 million years - Polidicks

If the climate reaches 800 PPM then it is at the point of massive suffering and chaos including 70% of all species going extinct. [url]http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/03/28/202053/adaptation-trap-and-nonskeptical-deniers-roger-pielke-1[/url]

[QUOTE=don868;40598351][IMG]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vpE6uMJ37dk/UOScrne47aI/AAAAAAAAEL4/Ki-4IWO-SoY/s1600/ron-paul.gif[/IMG] [highlight] [B]THE ICE CAPS ARE MELTING, GLOBAL WARMING IN FULL SWING. QUICK NECKBEARD RETARDS GET YER GASMASKS AND GET TO DA BUNKER ITS HAPPENING![/B][/highlight] YOU DENSE MOthER FuCKERS COUlD HAvE SToPPED IT [editline]10th May 2013[/editline] wake up sheeple[/QUOTE]Wow you really don't understand why this is important do you.

[QUOTE=Killer900;40598454]Wow you really don't understand why this is important do you.[/QUOTE] He doesn't. He's one of those users that make me ashamed to be apart of this forum. When somebody will put that much effort into finding an image macro for something as unproductive and idiotic as his post was, It makes me question the future generation's ability to solve problems as a whole. Forget global warming. With people like don868 leading the future generation, we are [I]all[/I] [I][U]going[/U][/I] [B][I][U]to die.[/U][/I][/B]

[URL="http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs23/f/2007/365/b/a/New_York_on_Fire_by_SATTISH.jpg"]What Al Gore is thinking will happen[/URL] [editline]10th May 2013[/editline] this is shitty though

[QUOTE=don868;40596717]Take 999,600 people wearing red shirts, and put 400 people wearing blue shirts in. That's being one sample, which is almost nothing comparative to the entirety of the atmosphere. I'm not saying this isn't an issue, what I'm saying is don't lose any sleep over it.[/QUOTE] Well you exist at a concentration of 1 part per 7 billion and you're able to negatively affect the planet so 400 parts per million is astronomical

[QUOTE=Zeke129;40598729]Well you exist at a concentration of 1 part per 7 billion and you're able to negatively affect the planet so 400 parts per million is astronomical[/QUOTE] ur asTROnoMICALLY buttFLUSTRD

"oh don't worry, this co2 increase won't cause any problems, plus it was a bad measurement anyways and disagreed with me, so it's wrong" It's not like quite recently I posted an article which said that the arctic ice caps were literally on the point of collapse.

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;40598899]"oh don't worry, this co2 increase won't cause any problems, plus it was a bad measurement anyways and disagreed with me, so it's wrong" It's not like quite recently I posted an article which said that the arctic ice caps were literally on the point of collapse.[/QUOTE] Ice sometimes wants to just melt, what, do you oppose the freedom of ice to do what it wants? Fascist.

[QUOTE=don868;40598792]ur asTROnoMICALLY buttFLUSTRD[/QUOTE]You really aren't helping your case.

It's All Cows! they farts too much

We're boned [editline]11th May 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Flameon;40598416]If the climate reaches 800 PPM then it is at the point of massive suffering and chaos including 70% of all species going extinct. [url]http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/03/28/202053/adaptation-trap-and-nonskeptical-deniers-roger-pielke-1[/url][/QUOTE] That would almost certainly ruin your day

This last semester, I took a class for Intro to Physical Geography since I needed a natural science and my required sciences were full. Wow, is all I can say. I certainly have a new perspective towards the Earth and a new respect. If I wasn't so interested in Computer Science, I'd probably work towards an environmental degree. I agree with the user who said we need a sudden impact to occur in order to get people to work towards a better future. This gradual change in the environment isn't causing enough people to notice, and the sad thing is that what's happening isn't even gradual. It really is very sudden, in relative to the Earth, but yet people still don't notice nor care.

Why would you measure CO2 particles on top of a volcano. That's like measuring the average outdoor temperature in a freezer, and then claim we have another ice age on our hands.

[QUOTE=V12US;40599542]Why would you measure CO2 particles on top of a volcano. That's like measuring the average outdoor temperature in a freezer, and then claim we have another ice age on our hands.[/QUOTE][QUOTE=Xenocidebot;40596508] I get the feeling you don't know shit. They monitor the volcano specifically in addition to the atmospheric shit and then account for the former in measurements of the latter.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=smurfy;40596578][URL="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/climateqa/mauna-loa-co2-record/"]How do scientists know that Mauna Loa's volcanic emissions don't affect the carbon dioxide data collected there?[/URL][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Zareox7;40599538]This last semester, I took a class for Intro to Physical Geography since I needed a natural science and my required sciences were full. Wow, is all I can say. I certainly have a new perspective towards the Earth and a new respect. If I wasn't so interested in Computer Science, I'd probably work towards an environmental degree. I agree with the user who said we need a sudden impact to occur in order to get people to work towards a better future. This gradual change in the environment isn't causing enough people to notice, and the sad thing is that what's happening isn't even gradual. It really is very sudden, in relative to the Earth, but yet people still don't notice nor care.[/QUOTE] What really, deeply scares me is the potential for a multiple, cascading failure. It's like the NASA accidents: You design in enough redundancy that you can deal with problem A, problem B, or problem C. What gets you in the end is problem A, plus problems D, E, and F. If enough things stack up, something will always get you in the end. We can design new farming techniques and technology to, say, fight desertification caused by increased temperatures. We can engineer flood defenses to fight bigger, harder hurricanes. But we can't deal with the arctic ice melting, which exponentially increases warming, which opens up methane deposits below the permafrost, which again exponentially increases warming, which destroys the forests that sequester CO2. We can fix individual effects of climate change, but a sudden cascading greenhouse cliff could destroy everything faster than we can engineer our way around it.

[QUOTE=Mad Chatter;40596636]Let's poke a hole in the ozone layer, get some big fans, and blow all the CO2 into space.[/QUOTE] Hell, we don't even have to poke the hole, last I knew, there's already one there. Half the work is already done. :v:

I hope something like nanomachine technology will be able to equalize the situation. If not, we're bound to end our own species.