On May 2nd Mauna Loa Observatory released atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) data for the month of April. For the first time on record, the average amount of carbon dioxide — the main long-lived gas responsible for global warming — in the air passed 410 parts per million (ppm) for an entire month... Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist at TTU is quoted on multiple websites:
As to why the continued growth... is so alarming, it is because it is a continued indicator that we are conducting an inadvertent and unprecedented experiment with our planet, the only home we have. It’s as if we discovered that something we eat every day is causing our body to run a fever and develop all kinds of harmful symptoms — and instead of cutting back, we keep on eating it. If that isn’t alarming, I don’t know what is.It is NOT... and Why? Because we humans love GOOD LIFE... A game of golf. Skiing slopes. A trip to Hawai'i. No-sweat summers. Virtual worlds... and all those SPECIALS... these are all CO2 pleasures and feel-goods of our lives... Are we ready to give them up? For the only home we have?... Marching on into the future... with SOLAR, WIND, and GREEN... the buzzwords that make us feel good about our feel-goods...
