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Concentration of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Continues to Increase

posted by mrpg on Saturday May 12 2018, @03:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the stop-killing-trees dept.

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For the first time since humans have been monitoring, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have exceeded 410 parts per million averaged across an entire month, a threshold that pushes the planet ever closer to warming beyond levels that scientists and the international community have deemed ‘‘safe.’’

The reading from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii finds that concentrations of the climate-warming gas averaged above 410 parts per million throughout April. The first time readings crossed 410 at all occurred on April 18, 2017, or just about a year ago.

Earth’s atmosphere just crossed another troubling climate change threshold

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by fritsd on Saturday May 12 2018, @10:48AM (1 child)

    by fritsd (4586) on Saturday May 12 2018, @10:48AM (#678771) Journal

    If the climate warms, well, look at a globe. Lots of land is in Canada and Russia. Even just looking at the USA, Alaska is bigger than Hawaii. More land becomes available to grow food.

    I'm excited about the prospect of the new vegetables and cereals that you have cultivated for 10000 years and that are able to thrive and yield harvest on Greenland bedrock and on thawed permafrost rotting peat bogs [wikipedia.org]!

    What are you going to plant in the Batagaika crater [sciencealert.com]? Might be a bit difficult to access with a tractor, so you'd need to become a spelunking farmer I guess.

    Any good Sphagnum peat moss [wikipedia.org] recipes? Seems it's mostly used for non-edible purposes.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @01:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @01:01PM (#678806)

    Any good Sphagnum peat moss recipes? Seems it's mostly used for non-edible purposes.

    Any cellulose is a polymer made of sugars. The ways to convert it into human-digestible foodstuffs are many and varied; a fraction of the money going into promoting the narrative of The Impending Doom (tm) would solve everyhuman's food problems many times over.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulosic_sugars [wikipedia.org]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungiculture [wikipedia.org]
    https://www.feedipedia.org/node/64 [feedipedia.org]
    The problem is, fear is more profitable commodity than food.