BBC: Greenhouse gases hit record high

[blackhorse]

Greenhouse gases hit record high

The steady rise in atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gases blamed for climate change shows no signs of abating, a UN agency has announced.

The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide rose by about half a percent in 2005, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6114250.stm

[hatrack]

1. Uh . . . .hello? K&R

Is there anybody out there?

[Lindacooks]

2. Not at all surprising, but very frustrating and sad.

We have GOT to kick repukes out of office. This is, quite literally, save the world time.

[many a good man]

3. How can this be?

I thought all the other countries in the world adopted Kyoto targets? Is all the increase from US, China and India?

[Xithras]

4. Most of the continuing increase is coming from China at this point.

US CO2 production is as high as ever, but there hasn't been any real expansion in our CO2 production for a few years now. The number of SUV's is fairly stable, and there aren't any large new sources here. Ditto for western Europe. Most of the increase in CO2 production, at this point, is coming from China. Other developing nations in Asia and eastern Europe are also contributing to the increase, but by and large China is the biggest culprit, as they have been building coal fired power plants like crazy.

Developing nations, of course, are exempt from Kyoto production limits.

[mom cat]

5. China may be the biggest source of the increase, but the US is by far

the worst poluter. Also, I saw yesterday, that the sales of SUVs has skyrocketed since the manipulated dip in gas prices. For the US to stay steady in its output would be enough by itself to destroy life as we know it on the planet. Radical reduction is necessary and is the responsibility of everyone of us.

[Algorem]

6. breathe deep the gathering doom

for whom the smell blows

death may be your santa claus

[OneBlueSky]

7. the problem is corporations -- and the power they wield in . . .

our modern world . . . until we rein in the power of corporations, nothing is going to change -- not greenhouse gases, not the pollution of our oceans, lakes and rivers, not our propensity for war, nothing . . .

the great challenge facing this nation in the very near future will be restructuring our capitalist society and economy to dis-empower corporations and re-empower the people . . .