In your free time, check some relevant information in the field of spiel

This story illustrates just how securely the Bush admin is tethered to big business, oil, pharmaceuticals, etc…

Let’s break it up, folks. Nothing to see here….

As measured in air samples collected from over 60 sites in NOAA’s Global Cooperative Observing Network, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere increased by nearly 5 parts per million (ppm) between 2001 and 2003. The increase in 2002 was 2.43 ppm; the increase in 2003 was 2.30 ppm. In other words, more than two additional carbon-dioxide molecules were added to each million molecules of air each year during that period. The annual increase was higher than the long-term average annual CO2 increase of approximately 1.5 ppm.

315 ppm of CO2 in 1960

353 ppm of CO2 in 1988

But, according to David Hofmann, director of NOAA’s Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) in Boulder , Colo. , the rate of carbon-dioxide increase returned to the long-term average level of about 1.5 ppm per year in 2004, indicating that the temporary fluctuation was probably due to changes in the natural processes that remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

1.5 ppm x 115 = 172.5

172.5 + 290 = 362.5 ppm of CO2 in atmosphere in 2005

The industrial revolution replaced all of the natural CO2 that was in the atmosphere before the industrial revolution.

Of the 362.5 ppm, the 290 ppm is from natural evapotranspiration, i.e. animals that exhale CO2. Lots of birds and other wildlife on earth besides humans, but includes humans, too. The bird population of North America, including Mexico is estimated at 20 billion. Every time you exhale, you release CO2 into the atmosphere.

The carboniferous period in geologic time epochs had ten times more CO2 in the atmosphere than it does today.

362.5 ppm translates to 362.5 cubic feet of CO2 for every million cubic feet of atmosphere.

If we’re going to live on this earth, we must accept the facts that ‘anthropogenic’ forces will factor into the scheme of things.

The Chinese are buying autos at the rate of 20,000 per week. Exxon will probably increase their profits again this year.

If the answer is to go without a car, a furnace to heat your home, etc., I don’t know what will have to be done to stop manmade CO2. Go back to living in a hut with no electricity or heat and live to the ripe old age of 45 again. Otherwise, we’ll have to grin and bear it.

Next thing you know, they will be wanting approval of William Myers, a government lobbyist and anti-environmentalist, to a lifetime appointment as a judge of the 9th circuit. The man doesn’t even have judicial experience–just spent his time working as a lawyer for industrial interests at the Dept. of Interior.

Next thing you know, they’ll be expecting me to go out and buy my own Vaseline.

A few years ago they bought Mobil and i have checked them off my list also.

I’m 42 now and this passive boycott is so ingrained in me that I don’t even see thier signs anymore.

Hopefully this act by them will disappear thier logo from many more disgusted citizen’s minds.