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ffr

(22,672 posts) Tue May 14, 2019, 02:45 PM May 2019

415 PPM C02 for context. 3 million+ years since the planet has seen such levels.

'We Don't Know a Planet Like This': CO2 Levels Hit 415 PPM for First Time in 3 Million+ Years

"How is this not breaking news on all channels all over the world?"

Atmospheric levels of carbon registered 415 parts per million over the weekend at one of the world's key measuring stations, a concentration level researchers say has not existed in more than 3 million years – before the dawn of human history.

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Writing on his Informed Comment blog Monday, historian Juan Cole said that life on Earth in that pre-historic era, known as the Pliocene Period, is not a place humans would recognize:

In the Pliocene, it was much hotter.

In the Pliocene, oceans were much higher, maybe 90 feet higher.

That is our fate, folks. That is what 415ppm produces. It is only a matter of time, and some of the sea level rise will come quickly.

Amsterdam, New Orleans, Lisbon, Miami – the list of cities that will be submerged is enormous. - Common Dreams

And it only goes up from here. We leave the next generations with a planet that is much worse off than the one we were given. That'll be our legacy.

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415 PPM C02 for context. 3 million+ years since the planet has seen such levels. (Original Post) ffr May 2019 OP

"How is this not breaking news all over the planet?" misanthrope May 2019 #1

+1 ffr May 2019 #2

Because Humans react slowly to long-term crises maxsolomon May 2019 #3

misanthrope

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1. "How is this not breaking news all over the planet?"

Reply to ffr (Original post)

Tue May 14, 2019, 02:49 PM

May 2019

Because there's money to be made, power to be grabbed and anything that distracts from that just doesn't earn priority. Because media companies are essentially selling consumerism like everyone else.

Oh, and New Orleans' days are numbered regardless due to subsidence and the alteration of the cycle that replenishes the delta land.

ffr

(22,672 posts)

2. +1

Reply to misanthrope (Reply #1)

Tue May 14, 2019, 02:55 PM

May 2019

And our (human) numbers keep growing by the second.

It's a race to watch the climactic inferno ending.

maxsolomon

(33,400 posts)

3. Because Humans react slowly to long-term crises

Reply to ffr (Original post)

Tue May 14, 2019, 04:56 PM

May 2019

our entire industrial society is dependent on enormous expenditures of energy. I'm using energy typing this useless post.

People want to sleep. They will not change unless they are forced, so they use the soothing lies of the Denialists to shrug it off.

A daily PPM report is a good way to make them aware of the reality of things, at least.

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