{"id":91113,"date":"2017-04-24T12:01:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T11:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=91113"},"modified":"2017-04-23T16:32:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T15:32:28","slug":"indescribable-feeling-we-just-hit-410-ppm-of-co2-welcome-to-a-whole-new-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/04\/indescribable-feeling-we-just-hit-410-ppm-of-co2-welcome-to-a-whole-new-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Indescribable Feeling: We Just Hit 410 ppm of CO2 – Welcome to a Whole New World"},"content":{"rendered":"

21 Apr 2017 – <\/em>This is not normal: We\u2019re on track to witness a climate unseen in 50 million years<\/a>\u00a0by mid-century.<\/p>\n

In pre-industrial times, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere stood at 280 parts per million. And that number has been rising ever since, warming\u00a0the planet by 1.8 degrees F (1 degree C) along the way.<\/p>\n

CO2 levels\u00a0fluctuate with the seasons, climbing a bit higher each spring. We first hit 400 parts per million<\/a>\u00a0back in 2013, and that\u00a0became the new norm just four years later<\/a>. And on April 18 this year, as predicted<\/a>, we crossed the\u00a0410 ppm<\/a>\u00a0threshold for the first time at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.<\/p>\n

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Climate Central<\/a><\/p>\n

While\u00a0El Ni\u00f1o and other natural factors have sped up CO2 concentration increases in the past two years, fossil fuel emissions are the major driver,\u00a0according to Climate Central.<\/p>\n

As fictional carb-thief\u00a0Aladdin once said<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cUnbelievable sights\/Indescribable feeling\/Soaring, tumbling, freewheeling\/Through an endless diamond sky.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was talking about the feeling you get when thinking about carbon concentration levels, right? Because that\u2019s how WE feel! Just kidding, we feel terrified.<\/p>\n

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Susan Melkisethian<\/p><\/div>\n

And here\u2019s some good reading for the bus ride to\u00a0the march:\u00a0Andrew Jewett in the Atlantic explains<\/a> what needs to be done beyond\u00a0<\/em>marching for science. (Hint: It involves addressing the social structures that dictate how\u00a0scientific policies are applied.)<\/p>\n

Stay tuned to our Apathy Detox<\/a>\u00a0to learn why showing up to protests actually matters.<\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

21 Apr 2017 – This is not normal: We\u2019re on track to witness a climate unseen in 50 million years by mid-century. We first hit 400 parts per million back in 2013, and that became the new norm just four years later. And on April 18 this year, as predicted, we crossed the 410 ppm threshold for the first time at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}