UN: Greenhouse gases at highest level since pre-industrial times

[Turborama]

Source: The Guardian

Concentrations of the main greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have reached their highest level since pre-industrial times, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said today.

Concentrations of the gases continued to build up in 2009 – the latest year of observations – despite the economic slowdown, the UN weather agency said in its latest Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. Rises in the amount of greenhouse gases increase radiation in the atmosphere, warming the surface of the Earth and causing climate change.

"The main long-lived greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have reached their highest recorded levels since the beginning of the industrial age, and this despite the recent economic slowdown," said WMO deputy secretary-general Jeremiah Lengoasa.

The findings will be studied at a UN meeting in Cancún, Mexico, from 29 November to 10 December to discuss climate change.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/nov/24/un-greenhouse-gases

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[Cal Carpenter]

2. You're a fucking genius, fella.

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[Cal Carpenter]

5. 1st I'm a leftist not a lib

Second, I think Al Gore is an opportunistic chump (former) politician.

Third, how much anthrax or ricin does it take to kill a person? Very very little. Your attempt at an argument is FAIL.

[time_has_come]

12. what'd i miss? what'd i miss?

Did he call you a lib? what else he say?

how is Gore opportunistic? what's that mean?

[Cal Carpenter]

14. The poster was a total RW troll

Who managed to get a few posts in before banning.

He was using 'lib' and 'liberal' as an insult (and frankly I don't identify as a liberal because of liberal economics but that's a complicated issue so we'll leave it at that).

The poster also made some comments about Al Gore under the assumption that he was my hero or something.

And I'm not a fan of Al Gore, he lays out the science of climate change pretty well but he doesn't put the responsibility the real culprit (corporations/capitalism and the politicians who support them) but rather on regular people and their 'consumer choices' which imo is distracting bullshit. This is a simplified, poorly worded version of what I mean, but so be it. Even Gore himself recently admitted that he supported the whole ethanol-as-alternative-energy more because of votes than science. (link: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/gore-annoys-corn-ethanol-lobby/?partner=rss&emc=rss ).

I don't say this as 'bashing' or some such, btw, it's nigh impossible for a politician *not* to be an opportunist so it isn't about him as a person.

[MrScorpio]

4. Around here, Spam gets you Pizza

What would you like on your Tombstone?

[fascisthunter]

6. ...you are so in denial, I'm kinda wondering if you were projecting

[fascisthunter]

7. Kick and Rec

[ProgressiveMajority]

8. In other news, more trash in trash dumps than yesterday, more plastic bags in the ocean, more nuclea

more nuclear waste...

This planet would be better off without humans on it.

[skip fox]

10. Robinson Jeffers is a beautiful poet who shres this sentiment.

You might dig him:

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/199

[ProgressiveMajority]

16. Very nice

Hadn't heard of him before but the poems capture exactly what I mean :( :)

[jwirr]

9. Am I reading that headline wrong? It seems to be saying that there

was an equally high level in pre-industrial times? What was causing it then?

[hughee99]

11. I read it the same way. Poorly worded, I suspect. n/t

[time_has_come]

13. there were higher levels at some point. in pre-industrial times

like, millions and millions of years ago

[XemaSab]

17. During dinosaur times, yes

Greenhouse gasses were at much higher levels, and the planet was a giant swamp.

[Playinghardball]

15. I'm afraid that the mammals of this earth are doomed...