Vergent Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0531/Climate-change-Arctic-passes-400-parts-per-million-milestone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabize Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 The silence in response to this is absolutely deafening. The accelerating rate of GFG production is like the Webcam view from a lemming's POV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben4vols Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 The silence in response to this is absolutely deafening. The accelerating rate of GFG production is like the Webcam view from a lemming's POV What should the response be? What does 400ppm mean to you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbcmh81 Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 General panic and rioting is warranted, like after every other post in this forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 Arctic monitoring stations show carbon dioxide levels are now above 400 parts per million. Carbon dioxide is the chief climate-change gas and stays in the atmosphere for 100 years. Before the Industrial Age, carbon dioxide levels were 275 ppm. Until we see the need to engineer it out and those levels will be manageable to any exact figure we would like.... Its just going to take money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vergent Posted June 1, 2012 Author Share Posted June 1, 2012 Arctic monitoring stations show carbon dioxide levels are now above 400 parts per million. Carbon dioxide is the chief climate-change gas and stays in the atmosphere for 100 years. Before the Industrial Age, carbon dioxide levels were 275 ppm. Until we see the need to engineer it out and those levels will be manageable to any exact figure we would like.... Its just going to take money. How much money? How many dollars per ton? Shouldn't there be a tax? Or, let the next generation pay for it like the national debt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonger Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 How much money? How many dollars per ton? Shouldn't there be a tax? Or, let the next generation pay for it like the national debt? I'm not able to pull it up right now, but there is a video with a developed plastic that collects CO2 at a rate that is unreal... They simply could built cell tower like structures with the coating applied and to remove the quickly collected CO2 is done by blasting it with water. The structure could be placed in a tube and rinsing within... Inject the CO2 underground. Basically put it back where it came from. They do a similar tactic now with Nature gas extraction. This might sound far fetched, but so is stopping CO2 emissions...At least in our lifetime. Theres no shortage of storage space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryM Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 Just a quick quip re the 100 year figure. Nowhere in these model results or in the published literature is there any reason to conclude that the effects of CO2 release will be substantially confined to just a few centuries. In contrast, generally accepted modern understanding of the global carbon cycle indicates that climate effects of CO2 releases to the atmosphere will persist for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years into the future. From https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:MY4EoihJ6b0J:forecast.uchicago.edu/Projects/archer.2009.ann_rev_tail.pdf+&hl=en&gl=ca&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESikqtrfn4XnSq8FwWoUnvpKfVoDUAXxclcbn33Gaxk-I9qJldNHy5aswKtpMBPVffvyV9AgnN6c_jpOWy0C8VDkvePqFcSiHO-RN4Q-mRppcDsitO-85dl1daEBG4J4QBWcolGN&sig=AHIEtbTi0pPCGMpsAIdwEhrc4a6cudmF3w&pli=1 Terry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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