The WMO reports that levels of carbon dioxide have reached 389 parts per million, meaning that this is a whole lot more CO2 in the atmosphere than is possible to contain global warming to 2 degrees Celcius and we are now looking at a new mean global warming of 5 degrees at least — within the next thirty to fifty years…
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) published data Monday showing that the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new record in 2010 and that the growth of the buildup is accelerating.
The WMO — an arm of the United Nations — issued its latest report on concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and other gases.
“The atmospheric burden of greenhouse gases due to human activities has yet again reached record levels” said WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud in a statement.
He warns: “Even if we managed to halt our greenhouse gas emissions today — and this is far from the case — they would continue to linger in the atmosphere warming up the planet, for many decades if not many hundreds of years to come, and so continue to negatively affect the delicate balance of our living planet and climate.”
These new meteo-data arrives ahead of the next big round of U.N. climate talks, set to begin in Durban South Africa on Nov. 28 and are a clarion call for action to combat emissions by replacing the fossil fuel burning for energy with renewable clean energy sources, as our last ditch effort to save our Goldilocks planet from catastrophe that poses an existential threat to our civilization.
“The fact that we surpassed with such speed the 350 ppmv CO2 particles in the atmosphere and we are accelerating the upwards slope is a catastrophe in and of itself. And this is primarily caused because of our emissions from the burning of fossil fuels for energy, from rapid deforestation, drying up of the permafrost with the resultant methane emissions, air transport and rainforest changes in land-use,” the Environmental Parliament Climate Chnage Energy Chief David Selles states. And he goes on to state that because the increase between 2009 and 2010 was way above the average for the last two decades it appears the trends work against any environmental progress.
And the WMO states that: “Between 2009 and 2010, its atmospheric abundance increased by 2.3 parts per million — higher than the average for both the 1990s (1.5 parts per million) and the past decade (2.0 parts per million).”
The report tracks several other major and even more damaging greenhouse gases, including methane, a potent greenhouse gas that’s again on the rise after a temporary period of “relative stabilization” between 1999 and 2006.
“Environmental Parliament scientists are now conducting research into the reasons for this accelerating increase of CO2 including the devastating role of the thawing of the methane-rich Northern permafrost and increased emissions from tropical wetlands,” notes.
Yours,
Pano
PS:
Little doubt remains amongst the public and intelligent Life forms abut which way we need to go…
And if we can put our Climate Politics aside, then we can address this issue as the human existential crisis it truly is.
A threat to Life unlike any we have ever seen before and we need to come together and address it as one species lest we become a footnote memory and the fossil history of the future much like the dinosaurs…
Currently found only in the museum of natural history for our species to maybe learn a lesson…
