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Message Subject global warming for dummies
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
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Sure there nay be a variety of factors. BUT:
Before the Industrial Revolution – that is when society began to develop, use and rely on technology – carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were at about 280ppm.

Today, carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have increased to about 396ppm.

In order to put the current increase in carbon dioxide into context, look at the time of the fastest carbon dioxide rise in the past. In this case, it looks to be at about 130,000 years ago.

During this ‘rapid’ event, carbon dioxide increased from 198ppm to 287ppm (a total of 89ppm) over a period of 7,500 years.

Not only is the rate of current carbon dioxide emissions unseen in the last 400,000 years, the magnitude of the change is also incredible. We are now nearly at 400ppm.

We won't see the total effect of OUR efforts for many years because the earth can't react fast enough. But the damage is done. Weird weather is now the norm.

Remember Easter Island. Humans there thought they had unlimited growth potential there. Then a few hundred years later, they woke up and it was too late. It's too late already.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 13649018


I love this place. So the cycle we are in is perhaps the biggest one ever?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 4241337

How do you get that idea? The rate of carbon input is the fastest even. Obviously it's from the ten trillion tons we've put out our smokestacks since the 1880's. It's too fast for the natural systems to react too.
I must say, I love (and study) the speculations that seem like science fiction. Plazma ribbon, local dust clowd making the sun spark up, etc etc. The polar shift Is ongoing as well as the loss of protection from cosmic radiation. I just hope they aren't going to kill us before the party is over.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 13649018

You were doing good there but then...well lets just think for a moment how much we put in the air compared to idk volcanoes?
 
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