U.N. Report: Greenhouse Gases Continue to Climb with All Time High
May 16
The WMO indicated that humans began contributing higher carbon emissions with the beginning of the industrial revolution in 1750. Half of the contributing effects were being absorbed by carbon sinks, but the natural process of carbon storage facilities such as forests and oceans cannot continue in our future. In essence, there is a maximum amount that can be processed naturally, and then it goes into overdrive. The oceans are already increasing in the acidic levels and this is affecting the underwater coral reefs and food chains.
The Swiss-based U.N. agency, that uses the input data from over fifty countries, has compiled a report with details stating that there is a rise of other greenhouse gasses including nitrous oxide and methane. According to WMO, approximately 60% of the methane that is released into the atmosphere is derived from human activities such as fossil fuel exploitation, rice agriculture, farming, biomass burning and landfills. The 2011 data is showing that these concentrations achieved a new high point of 1813 ppb (parts per billion), which is 259% higher than our pre-industrial levels. Nitrous oxide emissions are contributed by human activity at 40%, 324.2 ppb, which is up one ppb from the 2010 numbers and 120% higher than our pre-industrial timeline.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/20/world/europe/greenhouse-gases-record-high/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
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Mother Earth cannot absorb everything that we are doing to her. There is a natural sense of checks and balances, but we have thrown it completely off kilter by dumping so much, that she is sick and potentially dying. It’s not enough that we have done it, but too many are just turning their backs on the entire topic. As a species, we need to stand up together and agree to make changes, big ones.
May 27th, 2013 at 5:34 pmWhat does it take for those in power to sit up and admit that there is a problem? I think most of the world’s population of every day people have come to grips with the fact that carbon emissions have been and continue to cause major effects on the earth. So what do we have to do to get the politicians and big business to wake up?
May 26th, 2013 at 8:28 amHave you talked to any conservatives lately? As far as they are concerned, there isn’t any problem. Weather patterns are becoming drastic, fires are destroying the land, icebergs are melting and all of this is normal. Scientific evidence on a global scale doesn’t seem to shake their opinions. The problem is – why are they making the choices for the rest of us?
May 25th, 2013 at 11:51 pmHave you talked to any conservatives lately? As far as they are concerned, there isn’t any problem. Weather patterns are becoming drastic, fires are destroying the land, icebergs are melting and all of this is normal. Scientific evidence on a global scale doesn’t seem to shake their opinions. The problem is – why are they making the choices for the rest of us?
May 16th, 2013 at 6:47 pmWhat does it take for those in power to sit up and admit that there is a problem? I think most of the world’s population of every day people have come to grips with the fact that carbon emissions have been and continue to cause major effects on the earth. So what do we have to do to get the politicians and big business to wake up?
May 15th, 2013 at 5:15 pmMother Earth cannot absorb everything that we are doing to her. There is a natural sense of checks and balances, but we have thrown it completely off kilter by dumping so much, that she is sick and potentially dying. It’s not enough that we have done it, but too many are just turning their backs on the entire topic. As a species, we need to stand up together and agree to make changes, big ones.
May 14th, 2013 at 8:49 am