... across the Arctic this spring monitoring stations are measuring more than 400 parts per million of CO2.
... years ago, it passed 350 ppm mark that many scientists say is the highest safe levelof CO2 in the atmosphere.
... before the Industrial Age, levels were around 275 parts per million.
... been more than 800,000 years since the Earth saw carbon dioxide levels in the 400's.
... entire decade of 2000 to 2009 was warmest on record.
... unlikely the world can achieve the goal of limiting global warming to just 2 degrees celsius based on increasing pollution and greenhouse gas levels.
... further evidence the world’s political leaders, with a few honorable exceptions, are failing catastrophically to address the climate crisis.
... political dynamics in the U.S. mean there’s no possibility of significant restrictions on man-made greenhouse gases no matter what the levels are in the air.
400 is extremely significant... "... a depressing reminder to everybody we haven’t fixed this... we’re still in grave trouble.”
“It's an indication we’re now living in a very different world.”
Despite over 20 years of climate stabilization campaigns, the year 2010 saw annual greenhouse gas emissions that were the highest ever recorded. Humanity is in a survival crisis... a crisis of identity, conscience and spirit. Who are we as an evolving species... do we really care more about money than our future generations.
"If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current level to at most 350 ppm.
If the present overshoot of this target CO2 is not brief, there's probability of seeding irreversible, catastrophic effects."
Survival dictates, there must be a collective spirit stirring millions to rally for more just and equitable societies.
