First Time in Human History CO2 Levels Exceed Safe Zone Permanently...Upworthy:

[Stuart G]

https://www.upworthy.com/for-the-first-time-in-human-history-global-co2-levels-have-exceeded-the-safe-zone-permanently?c=huf1


For the first time in human history, global CO2 levels have exceeded the safe zone — permanently.

December 07, 2015

By Thom Dunn


The big UN Climate Conference started on Nov. 30, and the timing couldn't be better — because as of Nov. 11, CO2 levels in our air have officially exceeded the safe zone.

According to measurements from the Scripps Mauna Lua Observatory in Hawaii, the amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere has risen above 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in 3 million years.

And sadly, it will never drop down again as long as any of us are living.

For reference, CO2 levels clocked in around 275 ppm before the Industrial Revolution and scientists have been urging us for years to get things down to 350 ppm in order to stop temperatures from rising even more and damaging the planet.
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Kind of frightening.

[valerief]

1. I wish we had a War on Climate Change instead of a War on Drugs. nt

[Stuart G]

2. I think what you have said in 1 sentence, makes more sence than the entire "war on drugs" no text

[Indydem]

3. Such drama.

CO2 has been much much higher in earths history. 400ppm is 1/5 of what it was during the Ordivician period.

"Permanently?" OMG! Freak out! Science got us into this mess, it will get us out. Within 10 years we will be using solar power or fusion, paired with a catalyst system, to create carbon and O2.

It is shortsighted and ignorant to believe that we will never get any smarter than we are right now.