May Tied 6th Warmest in 142 Years-NOAA, page-44

ah Zipperlip, you’ve returned to ground zero i see. Your belief climate science is in its infancy is essentially a justification for your do-nothing approach.

so, your lack of support for actions to limit carbon emissions hinges on a belief that isn’t shared with people who might reasonably be called experts in the field.

in May, the average level of CO2 in the atmosphere rose to 419ppm from 417ppm a year earlier.

Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Scripps Institute of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego working at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory in Hawaii said the May measurements mean that “the atmospheric burden of CO2 is now comparable to where it was during the Pliocene Climatic Optimum, between 4.1 and 4.5 million years ago, when CO2 was close to, or above 400 ppm.”

””During that time, sea level was about 78 feet higher than today, the average temperature was 7°F higher than in pre-industrial times, and studies indicate large forests occupied areas of the Arctic that are now tundra,” they said in an article in Pearls & Irritations weekly republished today. The original piece came US news website Common Dreams.

Pieter Tans, a senior scientist at NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory, noted that CO2 is stored in the Earth’s oceans and atmosphere for thousands of years after it is emitted.

””We are adding roughly 40 billion metric tons of CO2 pollution to the atmosphere per year,” Tans said in a statement announcing the new figures. “That is a mountain of carbon that we dig up out of the Earth, burn, and release into the atmosphere as CO2—year after year.”

“If we want to avoid catastrophic climate change, the highest priority must be to reduce CO2 pollution to zero at the earliest possible date,” stressed Tans.

“The solution is right before our eyes,” said Tans. “Solar energy and wind are already cheaper than fossil fuels and they work at the scales that are required. If we take real action soon, we might still be able to avoid catastrophic climate change.”

Zipperlip, you can see the problems you and your type face, that is those who deny or discount the existential threat from manmade climate change.

armed with ignorance, you propose doing nothing, or at the very least ignoring the knowledge of experts who don’t share your relentless pessimism, which just happens - coincidence? - to match the position of vested interests including fossil fuel producers.