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The World Meteorological Organization issued a press release about its annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin:
Globally averaged concentrations of CO2 reached 403.3 parts per million in 2016, up from 400.00 ppm in 2015 because of a combination of human activities and a strong El Niño event. [...]
[...] Since 1990, there has been a 40% increase in total radiative forcing – the warming effect on our climate - by all long-lived greenhouse gases, and a 2.5% increase from 2015 to 2016 alone, according to figures from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration quoted in the bulletin.
[...] Atmospheric methane reached a new high of about 1 853 parts per billion (ppb) in 2016 and is now 257% of the pre-industrial level.
BBC News reported:
"The 3 ppm CO2 growth rate in 2015 and 2016 is extreme - double the growth rate in the 1990-2000 decade," Prof Euan Nisbet from Royal Holloway University of London told BBC News.
[...] Another concern in the report is the continuing, mysterious rise of methane levels in the atmosphere, which were also larger than the average over the past ten years.
The Aliso Canyon gas leak happened in 2016.
(Score: 5, Funny) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday November 02 2017, @11:31AM (4 children)
Oh down south in the Dixie,
In the deeps of Tennessee
There's a girl that I admired
just as pretty as can be
Her eyes as soft as redwood
Her hair like golden sun
Her lovely lips as red as fire
I was sure she was the one
But then one day I realised
That our love would have to pass
When I realised just how foul and dire
were the gasses from her ass
Oh Methane Rose...
Oh Methane Rose...
You're as pretty as a girl could be
from your head down to your toes
Oh Methane Rose...
Oh Methane Rose...
You're a pleasure to the eyeballs
but offensive to the nose
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @11:56AM (3 children)
Did you wrote it on the whim, just now, as a pun at the TFA ?
My hat off to you!
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday November 02 2017, @12:30PM (2 children)
Thanks. Feel free to make up more verses, everyone...
As graceful as an antelope
As peaceful as a lamb
As flatulent as a pickup truck
with a poorly fitted cam...
(Score: 4, Funny) by Thexalon on Thursday November 02 2017, @02:23PM (1 child)
One night I did invite her
To sleep between my sheets
But my joy was interrupted
By her bowel's fetid bleats!
And even when I kiss her
A kind and tender smooch
The noise and smell alert me
This can't be blamed on the pooch!
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday November 02 2017, @07:34PM
She did say "get down on me"
Yet past the navel to there
it couldn't be said more clearly
her biggest issue wasn't the hair.
Yet I tried, for I was dumb,
young, foolish, need exercise,
labored hard with teary eyes,
for two days my tongue was numb