Here is your Hero! Surveying the vast domain he has protected so that I can't even go there. I was there before he was born for a week repairing our ship after surviving a terrific hurricane. Another time, hanging out behind French Frigate Shoal waiting to rendezvous with a Troop ship en-route to Korea. The dude thinks he protected the area by preventing sailors from going there! He didn't do shit about the trash that comes there from China, Philippines, Korea on the Pacific currents. Looks Proud though, hey!! Damn! It pisses me off. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/obama-hawaii-midway-marine-climate-change/ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/us/politics/obama-climate-change-midway-marine-monument.html?_r=0 http://www.friendsofmidway.org/
What should he have done? Some sort of global anti polution regulation? That's a pretty radical idea, maybe he should save the whales while he's at it?
So basically, and correct me if I'm not understanding this properly. We should just say fuck it, and pour gas on a burning house? Next time a hurricane hits (and there's going to be a lot more of those, on a much larger scale) we should just say fuck it. "Nature didn't want us to have this city" Of course, I'm not taking into account the fact that, our actions are making the world heat up much faster than it naturally would.
Hey! That sounds like an interesting plan. Might make a hell of lot more sense than closing the place down to sailors. If you want to sell shit in the US, clean up the shit you dump in the ocean that comes to the US.
I can't believe a judge sitting in some landlocked territory in the middle of the continent could overturn an executive order by the president. barfo
Sounds like some hippy dippy shit to me. You want to what, regulate corporations to make them clean up pollution?
Really? And what personal insults are you talking about? And yet according to you I'm a piece of shit? But what, that's not an insult, that's the truth? Fine, I'm a piece of shit.
We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2 Carbon dioxide has not reached this height in millions of years The world just passed another round-numbered climate milestone. Scientists predicted it would happen this year and lo and behold, it has. On Tuesday, the Mauna Loa Observatory recorded its first-ever carbon dioxide reading in excess of 410 parts per million (it was 410.28 ppm in case you want the full deal). Carbon dioxide hasn’t reached that height in millions of years. It’s a new atmosphere that humanity will have to contend with, one that’s trapping more heat and causing the climate to change at a quickening rate. In what’s become a spring tradition like Passover and Easter, carbon dioxide has set a record high each year since measurements began. It stood at 280 ppm when record keeping began at Mauna Loa in 1958. In 2013, it passed 400 ppm. Just four years later, the 400 ppm mark is no longer a novelty. It’s the norm. “Its pretty depressing that it’s only a couple of years since the 400 ppm milestone was toppled,” Gavin Foster, a paleoclimate researcher at the University of Southampton told Climate Central last month. “These milestones are just numbers, but they give us an opportunity to pause and take stock and act as useful yard sticks for comparisons to the geological record.” Earlier this year, U.K. Met Office scientists issued their first-ever carbon dioxide forecast. They projected carbon dioxide could reach 410 ppm in March and almost certainly would by April. Their forecast has been borne out with Tuesday’s daily record. They project that the monthly average will peak near 407 ppm in May, setting a monthly record. Carbon dioxide concentrations have skyrocketed over the past two yearsdue to in part to natural factors like El Niño causing more of it to end up in the atmosphere. But it’s mostly driven by the record amounts of carbon dioxide humans are creating by burning fossil fuels. “The rate of increase will go down when emissions decrease,” Pieter Tans, an atmospheric scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said. “But carbon dioxide will still be going up, albeit more slowly. Only when emissions are cut in half will atmospheric carbon dioxide level off initially.” Even when concentrations of carbon dioxide level off, the impacts of climate change will extend centuries into the future. The planet has already warmed 1.8°F (1°C), including a run of 627 months in a row of above-normal heat. Sea levels have risen about a foot and oceans have acidified. Extreme heat has become more common. All of these impacts will last longer and intensify into the future even if we cut carbon emissions. But we face a choice of just how intense they become based on when we stop polluting the atmosphere. Right now we’re on track to create a climate unseen in 50 million years by mid-century. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-just-breached-the-410-ppm-threshold-for-co2/
Solution: Carbon Tax of $25 every time you fly. Carbon Tax of $100 for every car you have. Carbon Tax of $1000 for every child you have. Carbon Tax of $1 per square foot of your dwelling per year
400PPM 400 miles is the distance from Chicago to Memphis. 1M miles is the distance from the earth to the moon and back and there and back again, and part way there again. 1M miles is a trip around the equator about 40 times. To put it in perspective.
Interesting. Since I haven't said what I think the Scientific American article means what do you think I think it means?
