Carbon Dioxide Levels Climb Into Uncharted Territory for Humans

[Lasonic TRC-920]

The amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere has exceeded 402 parts per million (ppm) during the past two days of observations, which is higher than at any time in at least the past 800,000 years, according to readings from monitoring equipment on a mountaintop in Hawaii. Carbon dioxide, or CO2, is the most important long-lived greenhouse gas responsible for manmade global warming, and it is building up in the atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas.

Read More Here:

http://mashable.com/2014/04/08/carbon-dioxide-highest-levels-global-warming/

 

[restocat]

Plants like co2.
Beware of the global warming hype; many are using it for political gain. If these non elected officals get their way with an undemocratic global tax, you and me will not be the ones to benefit from it. It will go in their pocket, and to their corporations.

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

Plants like co2.
Beware of the global warming hype; many are using it for political gain. If these non elected officals get their way with an undemocratic global tax, you and me will not be the ones to benefit from it. It will go in their pocket, and to their corporations.

Yeah, I think I'll listen to the global scientific community. I don't follow ANY political side.

 

[oldskool69]

Yeah, I think I'll listen to the global scientific community. I don't follow ANY political side.

They all have an agenda. The global scientist would have your Ferrari in a crusher by now to make more "smart" cars and recycled housing.

I can tell you first hand that LEED (Leadership in Environmental Engineering Design) is a joke. It jacks up the price of buildings, mainly public/government structures which WE pay for. And through the life cycle of the building, it becomes an energy hungry hulk like everything else by the end of year one, better known as the warranty. Why? Because you can no longer blame the contractor at that point, and you probably spent most of the time getting them to come back and work on it.

And to that last portion, no one has the time nor the education nor the money to maintain the things to maintain the "energy savings". So it gets torn up, abused, worn out faster, etc. because it takes so much to maintain it. So when something does go wrong, you try and blame the contractors.

And ultimately...the building doesn't save sh:t nor has a better "carbon footprint".

It's all a pile of guesswork, salesmanship, and glad handing between the parties and special interests. And they sit at the same table in the end together.

Read this...

"...As the animals look from pigs to humans, they realize they can no longer distinguish between the two..."

Excerpt from a review of the following which I have read many times to catch intricacies of Orwell...

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

I don't follow any BS when it comes to what government agencies tell me. Here in Cali we have C.A.R.B. (California Air Resource Board), another joke agency that thinks with their arse and not with reality. In the end, it's only about MONEY!

As far as I'm concerned, there is nothing the average person can do. You can buy all the fluorescent light bulbs you want, drive a Prius for 300,000 miles or eat apples that grow out of some hippies ass. As long as greed runs the world, it's all just misinformation and lies.

The fact is, this planet has been polluted by human's doing what they are doing. I really don't care who thinks what or what anyones opinion is. If you have kids, then it's a sad thing to hand them this mess.

But I do have a simple test that anyone can do at home which creates the same situation the world is in now.

Fill up your bathtub with water. Then sit in it. Then take a crap!

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

By the way OS69, I am not arguing with you. I take every word you're saying as the truth and say "See this ain't working". I don't see anything working.

I guess time will tell....But doing NOTHING....to me, that's a bigger crime from ME to MY daughter and it bums me out.

 

[restocat]

By the way OS69, I am not arguing with you. I take every word you're saying as the truth and say "See this ain't working". I don't see anything working.

I guess time will tell....But doing NOTHING....to me, that's a bigger crime from ME to MY daughter and it bums me out.

We can all help in our own way. buy locally, work locally, recycle. consume less. Boomboxery is great for the environment, we are restoring and using classic stereo equipment. We are well ahead of the prius owner who continues to buy chinese throw-away stereo systems every year.

 

[Beosystem10]

Mis

drive a Prius for 30 miles

I'd sooner eat my own eyeballs thanks.

The real problem is caused by people farting so I put it to you that if we all use the new "Shreddies" underwear which has built in carbon filters to keep the gas private and kill the smells, then there'll be no more unreconstituted gases getting loose, the trees will all grow back and apart from looking like we're all wearing filled nappies, the world will once again be a happy place.
Probably.

 

[oldskool69]

By the way OS69, I am not arguing with you. I take every word you're saying as the truth and say "See this ain't working". I don't see anything working.

I guess time will tell....But doing NOTHING....to me, that's a bigger crime from ME to MY daughter and it bums me out.

And that is the major point. People doing nothing. If you think about it we are really like the very ants we so readily wish to destroy when we see them in our house.

We wake up and go through our routine like robots daily, only getting excited when there's a "news event" or our feelings are hurt.

(BTW...My feelings were hurt when you called me OS69, not Freddie...have I been downgraded? )

Personally, I'll admit that I am not the 100% conscious guy who beats his chest and says look at me. I waste plenty on my own but I do know I recycle a lot. The issue is educating our people and making it less of a hassle to recycle. Not only that, we don't teach what it is to be real "Americans". We were a country that didn't for the most part, waste anything at one point. Building materials, animals, tools...It was a way of life out of necessity. What was once a milestone or luxury is an everyday thing that gets tossed even if it still has use. Even thrift stores are trashing stuff because no one will buy it when a new item isn't far out of reach. The other thing people will tell you is that cars, etc. are getting recycled...well it ain't the big stuff jamming our landfills, it's the everyday items. I mean, who knew that an infants Pamper (disposable diaper) would far outlive the crap dumped in it? The problem is us...and it's world wide.

I am glad there are some in agreement with us Chris...unfortunately, the majority just wants someone else to blame.

 

[Reli]

I was under the impression that there are bigger greenhouse gases than CO2. Like methane, which could increase dramatically if global warming causes permafrost in the sub-arctic regions to melt.

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

Sorry for referring to you as OS69, just being lazy. Typing on a tablet.

Your right about everything going in the trash. I think that's why its so hard to find these darn boomboxes. When Albert of Lasonic told me they had produced 800,000 TRC-975's all I could think of was " Where did they all go?". They went with my first 920, into the land fill.

But what can the average Joe, Chris or Freddie do? I recycle. Big deal. Its not even about us. Its about DuPont, Coke a Cola, General Mills, GM, Mac Donalds and all the other heartless careless greed mongers.

My daughter gets married in three weeks and I just think, her kids are going to feel this, if she doesn't in her life time.

The average person is just trying to survive. They dont have time to read environmental reports or scientific studies. They dont have time to educate themselves on the very subjects they argue. They rely on their politicians or ministers or drinking buddies to fill in the gaps. All while it goes down the toilet. And as best as I can tell, its all out of greed and power.

Your right about the ants, but at least they work as a team for the common good. Humans cant even do that anymore.

 

[oldskool69]

Sorry for referring to you as OS69, just being lazy. Typing on a tablet...

You did nothing wrong. Just lightening the mood a bit.

 

[restocat]

>her kids are going to feel this, if she doesn't in her life time.
The hype has been over done, I would not worry about it.

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

>her kids are going to feel this, if she doesn't in her life time.
The hype has been over done, I would not worry about it.

Yeah man....I just don't feel that light on the subject.

 

[Terry]

Natural or man made it doesn't really matter. We should all be doing our bit to reduce pollution. Even something as simple as growing a vege garden helps. Grow a portion of your own food and less fuel is burnt getting it. Solar panels on your house means less coal is burned getting power to you. Recycle those water bottles and there's less waste. and if everyone does it then we'll be fine.

 

[BoomboxLover48]

Natural or man made it doesn't really matter. We should all be doing our bit to reduce pollution. Even something as simple as growing a vege garden helps. Grow a portion of your own food and less fuel is burnt getting it. Solar panels on your house means less coal is burned getting power to you. Recycle those water bottles and there's less waste. and if everyone does it then we'll be fine.

I agree with Terry 100%. That is the right way. People don't think of the generations to follow and the damage they are creating by pollutions. Ozone layer is getting depleted to a great extend.
Since the ozone layer absorbs UVB ultraviolet light from the sun, ozone layer depletion is expected to increase surface UVB levels, which could lead to damage, including increase in skin cancer. This was the reason for the Montreal Protocol. Although decreases in stratospheric ozone are well-tied to CFCs and there are good theoretical reasons to believe that decreases in ozone will lead to increases in surface UVB, there is no direct observational evidence linking ozone depletion to higher incidence of skin cancer and eye damage in human beings. This is partly because UVA, which has also been implicated in some forms of skin cancer, is not absorbed by ozone, and it is nearly impossible to control statistics for lifestyle changes in the populace.



In addition to recycling and all we can drink more alcohol and burn less!