Scientists monitoring global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations report that, for the first time in human history, CO2 levels could soon rise above 400 parts per million for a sustained period of time in much of the Northern Hemisphere.
Hourly readings have surpassed 400 ppm in the past week, but daily averages remain just below 400, reported The Guardian. Daily readings are expected to surpass 400 ppm in early May. They will reach theirannual peak by mid-month.
The measurements come from the NOAA-operated Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, which has maintained a continuous record of atmospheric CO2 concentrations since 1958. Records of earlier levels come from air bubbles inside Antarctic ice core samples.
"I wish it weren't true, but it looks like the world is going to blow through the 400-ppm level without losing a beat," said Scripps Institution geochemist Ralph Keeling in a press statement. Keeling's late father began taking the measurements which have come to form the "Keeling Curve."
"At this pace we'll hit 450 ppm within a few decades," he added.
The symbolic CO2 milestone comes amid an apparent slowdown from Obama on the climate and energy front, despite bold words at the outset of the president's second term.
Yet the Senate Finance Committee may soon take up discussion of a carbon tax, while Obama's former Climate Czar, Carol Browner, has suggested the White House will act on power plant emissions.
"I think what you’ll see this term is more greenhouse gas requirements, particularly on new and existing coal-fired power plants," she recently told The Chicago Maroon. Coal currently accounts for 80 percent of U.S. CO2 emissions from electricity generation.
Last summer, CO2 concentrationssurpassed 400 ppm in the Arctic, but that concentration has not been recorded for prolonged periods across the globe.
Emissions from industrialized nations have dipped recently, but increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations -- due to human activities like the burning of fossil fuels -- mean continued planetary warming and more record yearsfor temperature and extreme weather.
Environmental organization 350.org's name was inspired by the growing threat of climate change from rising CO2 levels. Scientists have argued that atmospheric CO2 levels must be reduced to 350 ppm to prevent disruptive climate change.
Increasing concentrations of long-lived greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide mean"largely irreversible" climate change for 1,000 years after emissions are curtailed, research has shown.
Scripps recently launched a Keeling Curve Twitter account to provide daily updates on CO2 measurements from Mauna Loa.
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NOT  SURE  HOW  THEY  FIGURE  IT  BUT  THEY  ARE  SAYING  THE  PLANET  HAS  NOT  SEEN  400  PPM  OF CO2  SINCE  THE  AGE  OF  THE  DINOSAUR  AGE.  AND  YES  THERE  WAS  A  DINOSAUR  AGE  BEFORE  MAN  WAS  CREATED.  AND  INDEED  IT  MAY  WELL  HAVE  THE  CREATOR'S  DOING  THAT  THE  CLIMATE  WAS  QUITE  DIFFERENT  FOR  THOSE  CREATURES.  I  SHOW  IN  STUDIES  ON  MY  WEBSITE  THAT  WHAT  WE  READ  ABOUT  IN  GENESIS  ONE,  WAS  THE  REFORMING  OF  THE  EARTH,  SOMETIME  AFTER  THE  AGE  OF  DINOSAURS  BECAME  EXTINCT,  WITH  A  SUDDEN  WORLD  WIDE  DISASTER  OF  SCIENCE-FICTION  DIMENSIONS. YOUR  BIBLE  REVEALS  THAT  AN  ARCH  ANGEL  REBELLED,  WANTED  THE  VERY  THRONE  OF  HEAVEN.  ONE  THIRD  OF  THE  ANGELS  REBELLED  WITH  HIM;  THERE  WAS   A  GREAT  WAR,  COULD  HAVE  COVERED  A  VAST  AMOUNT  OF  THE  UNIVERSE.  BUT  THE  REBELLS  WERE  DEFEAT.  THE  REBEL  LEADER  BECAME  THE  ONE  KNOWN  TODAY  AT  SATAN  THE  DEVIL,  AND  THE  FALLEN  ANGELS  BECAME  DEMONS.  THIS  PLANET  EARTH  WAS  COVERED  WITH  A  WORLD-WIDE,  GLOBAL  COVERING  OF  WATER;  THE  EARTH  BECAME  ONE  UNIVERSAL  FLOOD.  THAT  IS  WHERE  GENESIS  ONE  PICKS  UP  THE  STORY,  AS  GOD'S  SPIRIT  MOVED  ON  THE  WATERS,  AND  IN  6  DAYS  THE  LORD  RESHAPED  THIS  EARTH  WITH  LANDS  AND  SEAS,  AND  A  CREATION  FOR  MANKIND  WAS  BROUGHT  INTO  BEING.  SINCE  THAT  TIME  THE  EARTH  HAS  NOT  RECORDED  A  CO2  OF  400  PPM [400  PARTS PER  MILLION]  -  AS  THAT  400  PARTS  INCREASES,  WE  ARE  IN  FOR  A  CLIMATE  CHANGE  UNKNOW  IN  HUMAN  HISTORY.  THE  GLACIERS  AROUND  THE  WORLD  ARE  DIMINISHING  -  GREENLAND  IS  MELTING  -  THE  NORTH  POLE  IS  MELTING  FAST  THAN  PREDICTED.  CERTAINLY  LIVING  IN  CANADA  FOR  OVER  40  YEARS  I'VE  SEEN  THE  CANADIAN  CLIMATE  GET  WARMER.  WE  HAVE  MIXED  UP  WEATHER  IN  MANY  PARTS  OF  THE WOLRD.
IF  MAN  DOES  NOT  DO  SOME  DRAMATIC  CHANGES  IN  CO2  EMISSIONS,  WE  ARE  IN  FOR  A  PHYSICAL  WORLD  NEVER  BEFORE  EXPERIENCED  BY  MANKIND.
PUT  ALL  THAT  TOGETHER  WITH  THE  BIBLE  PROPHECY  OF  THE  BOOK  OF  REVELATION  AND.........WE  ARE  FACING  A  ROLLER-COASTER  RIDE  NEVER  BEFORE  HAPPENED  AND  NEVER  WILL  AGAIN,  THANKS  TO  THE  RETURN  OF  CHRIST  JESUS,  WHO  WILL SAVE  MANKIND  FROM OBLITERATING  THEMSELVES  FROM  OF  THE  FACE  OF  THE  EARTH.

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