Let's call the average .0388% now, and the next peak should be about .0392% with the average .0389% at that time. It's going up by 2 parts per million per year.

I want to convert that tiny number that the denyers jump on into a large number. The mass of the atmosphere is about 5 x 10^15 metric tonnes. That's 10,000,000,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide for each .0001%, and it is increasing by twice that number each year, distributed over the entire earth, currently 3,880,000,000,000 tonnes of just this one greenhouse gas. As the carbon dioxide percentage increases, where does it come from? The percentage of oxygen is reduced by a tiny amount, mostly from combustion, but we don't notice the drop in oxygen since it is approximately 21% of the air. The amount of water vapor that the atmosphere can hold is relatively constant, so the extra water from combustion of dug up fossil fuels ends up adding to the ocean.

The slope of the change has also obviously increased over each 10-20 year span or so, confirming an ever increasing rate of change. In the 1960s it was only increasing by 0.5 ppm per year, and 1980s by 1 ppm per year.

Those are regional weather differences. South Texas has been in an extreme drought exceeding that of the 1950s and creeping up on the 1930s. The lake level of the nearby reservoir is 35 feet below average. We're getting ready to turn off the tap for downstream rice farms. Central Texas had 68 days of 100 degrees F or more this summer. The average is 12 days over the whole summer, and it used to be 11. On the other hand, the increasing El Nino may give us some rain.

I suppose they would absorb more if we weren't cutting them down faster than they are being added.

from Global Disaster Watch:

HEAVY SNOW / EXTREME COLD -
RECORD-BREAKING early snowfall in New York, New Jersey - An autumn storm brought snow to parts of Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, the EARLIEST SNOW ON RECORD in some towns used to harsh winters. The snow that started Thursday, October 15, set records for the earliest date with an inch of snow in Binghamton, Ithaca and Olean in New York and Altoona and State College in Pennsylvania.

EXTREME HEAT / WILDFIRES / DROUGHT / CLIMATE CHANGE-

AUSTRALIA - Children traumatised by Victoria's Black Saturday bushfires are experiencing a fresh wave of fear as predictions spread of another horror fire season. Children were already becoming frightened as the bushfire season drew closer. Children affected by the February 7 inferno, which killed 173 people, or those living in high bushfire risk areas, have been exposed to media reports that the upcoming season could be worse than the last.

Britain's Prime Minister warns of climate 'catastrophe' - The UK faces a "catastrophe" of floods, droughts and killer heatwaves if world leaders fail to agree a deal on climate change. World delegations meet in Copenhagen in December for talks on a new treaty. In recent days there have been a number of warnings that progress is stalling. The prime minister has warned that negotiators have 50 days to save the world from global warming and break the "impasse". He told the Major Economies Forum in London, which brings together 17 of the world's biggest greenhouse gas-emitting countries, there was "no plan B". "Once the damage from unchecked emissions growth is done, no retrospective global agreement, in some future period, can undo that choice." The costs of failing to tackle the issue would be greater than the impact of both world wars and the Great Depression combined, the prime minister said. Whether current scientific understanding warrants his warning of "catastrophe" for the UK if greenhouse gas levels rise unchecked is perhaps open to question. A recent report by Kofi Annan's Global Humanitarian Forum found the UK was one of 12 nations least likely to be affected by climate impacts.

There are many discussions on sequestering CO2 the natural way. Read up on the Biochar solution. A quick link to a wiki on the topic of biochar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar and a dedicated website: http://www.biochar.org/joomla/

Yes, and lucky us again us silly (read stupid if you will) humans, we cut down the forests to create agricultural land which has a higher albedo... some will claim this was by higher design.

Question: Is it still that North Americans dump their food-waste into the kitchen sink processor and flush it out their sewers? Never understood that for a second. Substantially this method also uses allot more water and that's getting more scarce.

It's not propaganda

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8317998.stm

...but it is

;-)

Let's see if the watchdog has teeth or if they get extracted by the time they report

Dave

Yep have to admit it's good propaganda because indeed it does pull on the heartstrings

but unfortunately retsof there isn't a Climate Catastrophe in the making and if the climate is changing, as it does constantly, the change is not down to our emissions of CO2.


Want some more propaganda courtesy of Her Majesty's Government and the UK Met Office

Get a belly full of this from the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change (Oh the irony)

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/pressoffice/2009/pr20091022.html

http://www.actoncopenhagen.decc.gov.uk/conten...4-degrees-large-map-final

Enjoy

All the doom mongerers can go into meltdown over it

While the rest of us can stand back and see it for what it is


Take care all and have a nice (pretty typical weather for the time of year) day


Dave

Merely saying it isn't so hardly makes it not so.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26251600-20261,00.html

Now climate change denial is a psychological condition

October 24, 2009, The Australian (a very up-to-date article from the future, since they are ahead of me and it is only October 23 here.)





Here is another last wrap up thought from your own reference.