[Coral-List] CO2 hits 400ppm

[Stablein, Wade]

“We’re going to race through 400 like we didn’t see it go by,” Dr. Keeling
said.

Dr Keeling predicted we would see 400ppm sometime around May, 2014..  One
year earlier than predicted, the curve becomes steeper.



On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:00 PM, BRUCE CARLSON <exallias2 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Probably everyone (in the U.S.) has heard the news that the Dow Jones
> average has surpassed 15,000 and everyone is jubilant.
>
> You may have missed another story that appeared at almost the same time.
>  Here is an excerpt of that story from The Economist:
>
>  "At NOON on May 4th the carbon-dioxide concentration in the atmosphere
> around the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii hit 400 parts per million (ppm).
> The average for the day was 399.73 and researchers at the observatory
> expect this figure, too, to exceed 400 in the next few days. The last time
> such values prevailed on Earth was in the Pliocene epoch, 4m years ago,
> when jungles covered northern Canada.  There have already been a few
> readings above 400ppm elsewhere—those taken over the Arctic Ocean in May
> 2012, for example—but they were exceptional. Mauna Loa is the benchmark for
> CO2 measurement ... because Hawaii is so far from large concentrations of
> humanity."
>
> We all know the predictions for climate change and ocean chemistry change
> as we now head, inevitably it appears, to 450ppm.
>
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