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CO2 rise 10 X faster now than 50,000 years ago.

CO2 rise 10 X faster now than 50,000 years ago.

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https://phys.org/news/2024-05-chemical-analysis-natural-years-today.html

Direct evidence of the rise of CO2 compared to 50,000 years ago by analyzing how much CO2 is in present V ancient Antarctica ice.

How are the human caused climate change deniers going to rationalize this data?

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@sonhouse said
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-chemical-analysis-natural-years-today.html

Direct evidence of the rise of CO2 compared to 50,000 years ago by analyzing how much CO2 is in present V ancient Antarctica ice.

How are the human caused climate change deniers going to rationalize this data?
Easy, they will claim that the infrared window for CO2 is closed anyway (at least that is the standard).

That climate change is connected to Co2-levels is less generally accepted as one would expect.

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Tells a lot about the vaunted intelligence of the human race doesn't it.
Maybe humans don't deserve to live on the best planet for life in probably thousands of light years.

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Tells a lot about the vaunted intelligence of the human race doesn't it.
Maybe humans don't deserve to live on the best planet for life in probably thousands of light years.
Absolutely.
But who is going to turn the tide?
Not this generation for sure.

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In short, all the CO2 sequestration technology is going to come WAY too late to actually lower the count below what was in say 1800 or so.
I see developments along that line but getting literally millions of tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere in the next ten or twenty years? Don't think that will happen because it would take a world wide Manhattan project level to get the job done and don't think there will be a world wide effort there, individual countries, a few doing their best but way too late.

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@sonhouse said
@venda
In short, all the CO2 sequestration technology is going to come WAY too late to actually lower the count below what was in say 1800 or so.
I see developments along that line but getting literally millions of tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere in the next ten or twenty years? Don't think that will happen because it would take a world wide Manhattan project level to ge ...[text shortened]... re will be a world wide effort there, individual countries, a few doing their best but way too late.
The countries responsible for a significant percentage of CO2 emissions are China and the USA,closely followed by India Russia and Brazil
Are there any efforts to reduce them?
Even if we in the little old UK were to achieve net zero emissions(unlikely) it would make little difference.
There's too many people in the world.Even when we get a virus that could drastically reduce the earths population we find a way combat it!
I'm glad I'm 70 not 7!
Our granddaughter who is 8 is taught about climate change , so perhaps there is some hope for the future.

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@venda said
The countries responsible for a significant percentage of CO2 emissions are China and the USA,closely followed by India Russia and Brazil
Are there any efforts to reduce them?
Even if we in the little old UK were to achieve net zero emissions(unlikely) it would make little difference.
I'm glad I'm 70 not 7!
Our granddaughter who is 8 is taught about climate change , so perhaps there is some hope for the future.
...and of course those countries with the highest CO2-foodprint per capita should go into the lead, and those who can most easyilöy afoord it. Katar seems to be the worst emitter, followed by UAE, Saudi Arabia, USA, Australia, canada. (https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/167877/umfrage/co-emissionen-nach-laendern-je-einwohner/)

Relativeley poor countries also have a small CO2-footprint.

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@Ponderable said
...and of course those countries with the highest CO2-foodprint per capita should go into the lead, and those who can most easyilöy afoord it. Katar seems to be the worst emitter, followed by UAE, Saudi Arabia, USA, Australia, canada. (https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/167877/umfrage/co-emissionen-nach-laendern-je-einwohner/)

Relativeley poor countries also have a small CO2-footprint.
Obviously per capita will generate a different list from simply CO2 emissions by tons,but it seems no matter how many climate change conferences there are,little changes.

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Until it is too late and the glaciers in Greenland all melt and the ocean level goes up by some 50 feet. Goodbye Florida, Venice beach where we came from, goodbye Bahama Islands where I worked for years on Andros and so forth. Followed by the Atlantic ocean current keeping Europe from freezing over. Humans will learn the hard way.

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Until it is too late and the glaciers in Greenland all melt and the ocean level goes up by some 50 feet. Goodbye Florida, Venice beach where we came from, goodbye Bahama Islands where I worked for years on Andros and so forth. Followed by the Atlantic ocean current keeping Europe from freezing over. Humans will learn the hard way.
You're talking to the converted here my friend
I can quote an incident from a few years ago in the UK:-
The Somerset levels ,a rural area were badly affected by flooding.Little or nothing from the government.Then LONDON was affected by freak floods.You should have heard the outcry!

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Not only that but there will be a positive feedback when temps go up enough to start melting permafrost releasing methane by the ton, the only saving grace with methane is it has a relatively short half life, UV tears the molecules apart but relatively short is several generations of humans to subside. That bit has already started but not on a world crisis level yet.

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I saw your profile, you said you were retired, just wondered what you did for a living back in the day?

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I saw your profile, you said you were retired, just wondered what you did for a living back in the day?
I worked in production control at the steelworks on 3 shifts.
In 2009 there were some redundancies and they made me an offer too good to refuse

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Ah, we had steel here in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania but they all went belly up and now the land was bought out by a frigging casino🙂

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