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[Lizzie Zoom]

News has been released that the concentrations of CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere surged in 2016  to the highest level recorded for over 800,000 years according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41778089

So at the risk of being called a "socialist tree huger", which actually couldn't be further to the truth, and so, so gullible, isn't it just wise and  prudent for mankind to do everything we can NOW to reduce all CO2 output, even though there HAS been improvements in the last few years?

So we as keen motorists do not want to be restricted in any way, but what the likes of the Mayor of London is doing must go a little way to help and should be appaulded

[zirk]

Wow, that some news, I never realised the WMO has been recording CO2 emissions in our Atmosphere for the last 800,000 years.

If theve been busy doing that it might explain how they managed to miss the Multiple Meteor Strikes only 10,000 years later. -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3461650/Ancient-Earth-pummeled-meteors-790-000-years-ago-Multiple-impacts-caused-tsunamis-global-fires.html


 

 

[aaronjb]

Wow, that some news, I never realised the WMO has been recording CO2 emissions in our Atmosphere for the last 800,000 years.[/img]

I believe they get the historical data from core samples taken from deep ice in the polar regions

As for the news.. *shrugs* I can't muster much enthusiasm for caring, I'm afraid!

[Sir Tigger KC]

Think of the poor little children.                                                                                                                                                 

[Viral_Jim]

So at the risk of being called a "socialist tree huger", which actually couldn't be further to the truth, and so, so gullible, isn't it just wise and  prudent for mankind to do everything we can NOW to reduce all CO2 output, even though there HAS been improvements in the last few years?

So we as keen motorists do not want to be restricted in any way, but what the likes of the Mayor of London is doing must go a little way to help and should be appaulded

Nope, because it's all a left-wing eco-Nazi conspiracy and turning to renewables will bring about the economic downfall of us all. Man-made climate change is a myth and only the terminally gullible would believe in any of it*.
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* disclaimer: I don't actually believe any of that stuff, I'm just filling in until Rods2 gets here 

[2boxerdogs]

More useless information , that loads of cash has been squandered on will any of us do anything different  I know I won't.😀

[Lizzie Zoom]

More useless information , that loads of cash has been squandered on will any of us do anything different  I know I won't.😀

No matter what you may think personally, none of us will have any choice. The clock is ticking on diesel cars, and internal combustion engines in general, just like it did once with leaded, full strength, petrol.  The government will tax and regulate to achieve whatever goals are considered necessary with the environment.  After all, who is going to build a coal fired power station in the UK?  Even China is trying to get it's act together as smog is overwhelming their major cities.

[Doctor Gollum]

One volcanic eruption releases more CO2 than all the Omegas ever produced...

[Lizzie Zoom]

One volcanic eruption releases more CO2 than all the Omegas ever produced...

For all skeptics on here fully read this please:

www.skepticalscience.com/human-co2-smaller-than-natural-emissions.htm

and
https://whatsyourimpact.org/greenhouse-gases/carbon-dioxide-emissions

and for DG and other volcano submissions to the discussion:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11638-climate-myths-human-co2-emissions-are-too-tiny-to-matter/

and

https://climate.nasa.gov/blog/984/

But, of course, there will be some people everywhere who will still not believe the facts.

[Sir Tigger KC]

One volcanic eruption releases more CO2 than all the Omegas ever produced...

So that make's it OK for mankind to carry on polluting our environment?    

[TheBoy]

Its well known the BBC have an agenda in this regard, so not surprisingly they are pushing this good news (as far as they are concerned) so hard in the last 24hrs.


But then, Greenland was once green.  No doubt all the medieval eskimos driving all their Range Rovers caused that.

[Olympia5776]

It could be suggested that all that feel strongly about it sell their cars buy a bicycle and lead by example .....

[Toledodude1973]

 Fair point

[BazaJT]

Mankind as a species has been polluting the environment since day one and will continue to do so until the earth is no longer habitable.If as a species we crack the idea of travelling to another planet and colonising it we'll start the whole process over again[because we never seem to learn].This is not to say we shouldn't be trying to do something to at least slow the process-I doubt it can be stopped let alone reversed-but what the real answer is I don't know,renewable energy sources[wind farms and the like]they say can't or won't provide for all the needs,nuclear power they say is pollution free,but what of all the radioactive stuff left over when a nuclear station is decommissioned?They used to drop it in the ocean,but what happens when the sea and all the creatures living in the real depths break down the containers and concrete[or whatever they were filled with]and this stuff is released into the water?Meanwhile I'll keep driving my "gas guzzlers"until I'm either physically unable to do so or forced to by legislation.

[STEMO]

We don’t have to wait for space travel to start polluting the rest of the universe. We can fire our nuclear waste off into deep space. But, of course, there will be some who object to us polluting the galaxy.