January 2016 Atmospheric CO2 Content 402.52; January 2015 399.96; January 2014 397.81

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https://www.co2.earth/

[Lorien]

1. Amazing how a "terrorist" shooting will motivate the whole world

to take action against a relatively small group of people, but climate change, which has the potential to destroy much of life on earth in our lifetimes, gets a shrug and a quick change of topics.

[LiberalArkie]

2. Some things are too hard.

But you can make a bet that if the military contractors could figure out a way of cleaning up the atmosphere, the governments would do it in a heartbeat.

[Lorien]

3. Well, sure, if there were giant *short term* profits to be made

but the profits in disaster Capitalism are just too appealing to them. Want to make enormous profits from bottled water? Just poison most of the fresh water we have with Fracking fluids! It's awesome! And hey, people will need more of all consumer goods if we regularly wipe them out with monster storms, right? And they'll need more fossil fuels if we have record cold or record breaking heat waves. The money and power obsessed see environmental collapse as the gift that keeps on giving. It's hard for them to support the idea of changing course.

[Gregorian]

6. Terrorists don't really affect our abilty to be lazy consumers.

I live on a tiny one lane road that should be essentially silent. No, it's like a small freeway with people driving everywhere. If it's not the locals driving with their bikes for a bike ride, or neighbors jumping in the car for a quart of milk. There is no reason why anyone here even needs a car, since everything is within a few miles. Our lives are so luxurious that we don't dare consider what would happen if it stopped being that way. I've been watching this so long it's pathetic. I once had a foreign girlfriend. One day we were walking along, and she looked at me and said "Californians are car crazy". That was 1976. Since then we've become car insane. Everything is designed around that poisonous box that is literally killing us all. I'm not sure it's wrong. It just looks that way to someone who likes to preserve beauty.

Not to pester you with my reply, but since I'm already posting, there is something very peculiar I've noticed over the years of being a cyclist. The power we get through petroleum has turned us into something that is very similar to the way the 1% feel. They have it all, and they won't tolerate less. We even let Bush invade Iraq without so much as a few million people on the streets. I've always felt that part of what kept Americans so quiet was that they were comfortable. Why rock the boat when they can just jump in a car and do whatever they want without any notion of limits. Well the limit is presenting itself now.Change is happening, but it's all done in order to support the life we have designed. The one that's killing not only our planet, but our souls.

[GliderGuider]

4. Today's reading: 405.83...

No one here gets out alive.

[Gregorian]

5. Poisoning our own nest. Brilliant.

[NickB79]

7. It's like all the renewables we've installed in the past 20 years has had no effect at all

CO2 just keeps rising and rising and rising......