Better this late in the story than never regarding the mainstream media reporting on the critical crisis of human caused climate disruption. More stories are beginning to surface, facts which have been covered by independent media resources for years.
Meanwhile decades have been squandered while most Americans were exposed to “debates” between the vital facts about climate change and those who promoted the toxic fossil fuel funded influences of doubt and denial. Obviously the poisonous propaganda has worked for the enormous financial interests rather than the people and the planet or we would not have tolerated for a moment electing anyone for the highest office or any office who claimed that climate change is a “hoax.”
So now, here we are living on a different planet where the CO2 has topped 415ppm. Gone is the planet where 350 was the norm. I keep wondering what it will take for us to collectively agree that we must make addressing human caused climate disruption our top priority above all else. What will it take?? The eyes of the children are watching. — Molly
(CNN)"We don't know a planet like this."
That was the reaction of meteorologist Eric Holthaus to news that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen in the entirety of human existence -- not history, existence.
According to data from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is over 415 parts per million (ppm), far higher than at any point in the last 800,000 years, since before the evolution of homo sapiens.
Holthaus spotted the new high on Sunday when it was tweeted out by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, which measures daily CO2 rates at Mauna Loa along with scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Measurements have been ongoing since the program was started in 1958 by the late Charles David Keeling, for whom the Keeling Curve, a graph of increasing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, is named.
"This is the first time in human history our planet's atmosphere has had more than 415ppm CO2," Holthaus said in a widely shared tweet.
"Not just in recorded history, not just since the invention of agriculture 10,000 years ago. Since before modern humans existed millions of years ago," added Holthaus.
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