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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @05:43PM (2 children)
For example, not a single human will die if you Americans stop using your car to get to the shop just around the corner, wasting tons of fossil fuel. Indeed, with less cars needlessly on the road, less people will die.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @06:41PM
False. Our shops aren't located "just around the corner" unfortunately they're rather far away. And many Americans would not survive a walk to the store and back.
(Score: 2) by ledow on Thursday November 02 2017, @09:51PM
So we all stop using cars.
Does that stop the process? Likely not.
Does that mean that we now have to source all food etc. locally? Yes. Are there areas of the country that therefore now cannot obtain food like they have in modern times but only by travelling miles by some other method?
Does that increase cost of food, cost of transport, cost of the logistics, perishability of food? Yes.
So... who suffers? How many? How much? Did they need to? Will that actually REVERSE or PREVENT anything worse happening?
You can be as facetious as you like, the fact is that "less cars on the road" = "less people die" isn't at all obviously correlative. How many more old people will struggle, suffer and die prematurely compared to those who can just jump in a car and go to the store and/or afford only the food that's mass produced and brought near their town?
Or you could stab at solutions without actually performing data, studies, investigating alternatives, etc. like I'm complaining about and just say "stop using cars" without thoughts of the knock-on effects.