{"id":1175,"date":"2013-05-26T12:05:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T16:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2023-10-07T11:34:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T15:34:02","slug":"atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-has-surpassed-400ppm-for-the-first-time-in-human-history-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/2013\/05\/atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-has-surpassed-400ppm-for-the-first-time-in-human-history-scary\/","title":{"rendered":"Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide has Surpassed 400ppm for the First Time in Human History &#8211; SCARY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1177\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/2013\/05\/atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-has-surpassed-400ppm-for-the-first-time-in-human-history-scary\/mauna-loa-observatory\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1177\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1177\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1177\" title=\"MAUNA LOA OBSERVATORY\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MAUNA-LOA-OBSERVATORY-010-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"MAUNA LOA OBSERVATORY\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MAUNA-LOA-OBSERVATORY-010-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/MAUNA-LOA-OBSERVATORY-010.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hawaii&#8217;s Mauna Loa observatory, where record CO2 increases are beibng documented. (AP Photo\/Richard Vogel) Photograph: Richard Vogel\/AP<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have been very busy so it has been a while since my last post (although I have lots still to talk about), but this needs to be mentioned. We have surpassed the 400ppm (part per million)\u00a0threshold\u00a0of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, which is a very scary place to be. <strong>This is the highest concentration of this heat trapping gas in millions of years, way before humans existed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Humanity &#8211; well all life on earth for that matter &#8211; should be very concerned that this line has been crossed. This is bad news. And the worst and most concerning thing about this is, nobody noticed. Well that isn&#8217;t true, all the top\u00a0scientists\u00a0along with all the <strong><em>environmentally engaged<\/em><\/strong> people on this planet noticed, but for the most part this very concerning\u00a0milestone\u00a0 was surpassed in silence.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Wow. What is wrong with us?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/400.350.org\/\">http:\/\/400.350.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1178\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/2013\/05\/atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-has-surpassed-400ppm-for-the-first-time-in-human-history-scary\/ayaqctol4zu6iigrnfmq\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1178\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1178\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1178\" title=\"ayaqctol4zu6iigrnfmq\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ayaqctol4zu6iigrnfmq.jpg\" alt=\"400PPM CO2 - Scary\" width=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ayaqctol4zu6iigrnfmq.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ayaqctol4zu6iigrnfmq-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">400PPM CO2 &#8211; Scary (350.org)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been very busy so it has been a while since my last post (although I have lots still to talk about), but this needs to be mentioned. We have surpassed the 400ppm (part per million)\u00a0threshold\u00a0of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, which is a very scary place to be. This is the highest concentration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[178,383,1],"tags":[483,480,481,482],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifeofbrian.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}