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bylo
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Deep ice tells long climate story

Deep ice tells long climate story
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Carbon dioxide levels are substantially higher now than at anytime in the last 800,000 years, the latest study of ice drilled out of Antarctica confirms. The in-depth analysis of air bubbles trapped in a 3.2km-long core of frozen snow shows current greenhouse gas concentrations are unprecedented.The East Antarctic core is the longest, deepest ice column yet extracted.

Project scientists say its contents indicate humans could be bringing about dangerous climate changes. "My point would be that there's nothing in the ice core that gives us any cause for comfort," said Dr Eric Wolff from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). "There's nothing that suggests that the Earth will take care of the increase in carbon dioxide. The ice core suggests that the increase in carbon dioxide will definitely give us a climate change that will be dangerous," he told BBC News...

"Ice cores reveal the Earth's natural climate rhythm over the last 800,000 years. When carbon dioxide changed there was always an accompanying climate change. Over the last 200 years human activity has increased carbon dioxide to well outside the natural range," explained Dr Wolff. The "scary thing", he added, was the rate of change now occurring in CO2 concentrations. In the core, the fastest increase seen was of the order of 30 parts per million (ppm) by volume over a period of roughly 1,000 years. "The last 30 ppm of increase has occurred in just 17 years. We really are in the situation where we don't have an analogue in our records," he said...

digitalfutur
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And yet water vapour accounts for 70% of the "greenhouse effect" compared to 9% tops for CO2 but where is the water vapour treaty? And where is the treaty that applies to all nations regarding CO2?

Happyrat6
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said by digitalfutur:

And yet water vapour accounts for 70% of the "greenhouse effect" compared to 9% tops for CO2 but where is the water vapour treaty? And where is the treaty that applies to all nations regarding CO2?
Ya know, 30 years ago we all thought Chlorofluorocarbons were inert and environmentally harmless too. Up til that point we were happily spraying them from aerosol cans and leaking refrigerators into the environment, absolutely certain they were doing us no harm. Have you been outside recently without your SPF 50 sunblock?

Idiotic doubting Thomases, naysayers and oil company shills are going to keep on burying the global warming issue with "junk science" for as long as they possibly can to keep earning profits on a balance sheet. The truth is that these are serious warning signs that our world's environment is in danger and even if there is a slight chance of error, it remains best that we err on the side of prudence and caution.

It's a shame that so many supposedly intelligent corporate and government leaders can't see beyond the decade or two remaining to their lives and careers to stand up for what's right and try and save the planet for the next generation and the one after that (assuming there still is an environment by then.) Meanwhile they keep on spreading FUD until the debate becomes a meaningless exchange of noise and nobody gives a damn any longer.

Makes me damned proud that I never had kids though.

Perhaps the world won't last any longer than I will, but at least I have no investments in the future to lose.

dirtyjeffer0
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bah...Al Queida will get to us before the next environmental change.

Skipdawg
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A very cool report. Pun intended

Thanks for sharing

alamarco
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said by Happyrat6:

It's a shame that so many supposedly intelligent corporate and government leaders can't see beyond the decade or two remaining to their lives and careers to stand up for what's right and try and save the planet for the next generation and the one after that (assuming there still is an environment by then.) Meanwhile they keep on spreading FUD until the debate becomes a meaningless exchange of noise and nobody gives a damn any longer.
That's the thing, no one thinks about the future. They all have an attitude that it's not their problem, it's the future leaders problem. It's quite sad that it's like this, but that's today's world.

Something tells me that I'm not going to like what I see 10 or so years from now. Things keep getting worse and worse even though we have proof that what we do is bad for the environment. Might as well get it over with and launch missiles over every square inch of land.

Deafwood
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When are we going to stop buying into these bogeymen invented by those wanting us to surrender our liberties so they can push their new world order.

The Bilderberg Group is one of the most dangerous groups in the world. They are also about 'enlightening people' about global warming.

»www.cbc.ca/news/backgrou ··· g-group/
»www.americanfreepress.ne ··· boy.html

The real intent of global warming is to keep us in a constant state of fear making us believe our leaders are our only salvation!