Even if the "milestone" headline were true, saying it "raises fears" is a lie. China is by far the world's largest CO2 emitter, dwarfing the rest of the world and rendering stunning US CO2 reductions meaningless. Nor is mention made of global temperatures in the headline or article. The "fear" has never been about CO2 alone. It was always claimed that rising CO2 would cause higher global temperatures, but that hasn't happened. Climate scientists and the head of the UN IPCC all say global temperatures haven't increased in many years. The NY Times knows it can lie about anything and no one will care:
5/13/13, "NYT's Gillis, Writing Under False Headline, Rants Against Warming Skeptics With 'Little Scientific Credibility'," NewsBusters, Clay Waters
"New York Times's environmental reporter Justin Gillis earned an unusual two-column lead story part in Saturday's paper, part of his long-running scarefest series, "Temperatures Rising." The latest entry: "Heat-Trapping Gas Passes Milestone, Raising Fears." (Though that scary headline turns out to be upon further review a bit premature.) Gillis committed his usual smear of warming skeptics:
"Climate-change contrarians, who have little scientific credibility but are politically influential in Washington...."
"The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years.
Scientific instruments showed that the gas had reached an average daily level above 400 parts per million
-- just an odometer moment in one sense, but also a sobering reminder
that decades of efforts to bring human-produced emissions under control
are faltering.
The best available evidence suggests the amount of the gas in the air
has not been this high for at least three million years, before humans
evolved, and scientists believe the rise portends large changes in the
climate and the level of the sea."
But the Los Angeles Times threw cold water on the warming-planet milestone this morning with an update that renders the New York Times's over-eager front-page headline officially false: "Carbon dioxide measurements in the Earth's atmosphere did not break the symbolic milestone of 400 parts per million at a Hawaiian observatory last week, according to a revised reading from the nation's climate observers."
Gillis continued:
"Carbon dioxide rises and falls on a seasonal cycle, and the level will
dip below 400 this summer as leaf growth in the Northern Hemisphere
pulls about 10 billion tons of carbon out of the air. But experts say
that will be a brief reprieve -- the moment is approaching when no
measurement of the ambient air anywhere on earth, in any season, will
produce a reading below 400.
“It feels like the inevitable march toward disaster,” said Maureen E.
Raymo, a scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, a unit of
Columbia University.
....
For the entire period of human civilization, roughly 8,000 years, the
carbon dioxide level was relatively stable near that upper bound. But
the burning of fossil fuels has caused a 41 percent increase in the
heat-trapping gas since the Industrial Revolution, a mere geological
instant, and scientists say the climate is beginning to react, though
they expect far larger changes in the future.
Indirect measurements suggest that the last time the carbon dioxide
level was this high was at least three million years ago, during an
epoch called the Pliocene. Geological research shows that the climate
then was far warmer than today, the world’s ice caps were smaller, and
the sea level might have been as much as 60 or 80 feet higher.
Experts fear that humanity may be precipitating a return to
such conditions -- except this time, billions of people are in harm’s
way.
“It takes a long time to melt ice, but we’re doing it,” Dr. Keeling said. “It’s scary.”"
Gillis committed his standard smear of global-warming skeptics.
"Climate-change contrarians, who have little scientific credibility but are politically influential in Washington,
point out that carbon dioxide represents only a tiny fraction of the
air -- as of Thursday’s reading, exactly 0.04 percent. “The CO2 levels
in the atmosphere are rather undramatic,” a Republican congressman from
California, Dana Rohrabacher, said in a Congressional hearing several
years ago.
But climate scientists reject that argument, saying it is like claiming
that a tiny bit of arsenic or cobra venom cannot have much effect.
Research shows that even at such low levels, carbon dioxide is potent at
trapping heat near the surface of the earth.""
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Ed. note: The NY Times' point is to cause more demonization of Americans, and as much economic and physical suffering among lower and middle class Americans as possible. Writing a scary headline on this topic can trigger further transfer of billions of rube US taxpayer dollars to elites in the "climate" industry and equatorial dictators.
5/13/13, "Carbon dioxide in atmosphere did not break 400 ppm at Hawaii site," LA Times, Geoffrey Mohan
"Carbon dioxide measurements in the Earth's atmosphere did not break the symbolic milestone of 400 parts per million at a Hawaiian observatory last week, according to a revised reading from the nation's climate observers.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) revised its May 9 reading at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii, saying it remained fractions of a point below the level of 400 ppm, at 399.89.
Individual readings at any of NOAA's observation stations are subject to revision on a regular basis. Sometimes a data point is moved to another set when the sets are adjusted for the international date line."...via Climate Depot
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CO2 goals claimed necessary by CO2 activists can never be reached because of China's CO2 volume that will only continue to skyrocket. The US is no longer the demon, US emissions are dwarfed by China's:
5/8/13, "Jack Mintz: Canada unfairly Gored," Financial Post opinion
"Al Gore likened Alberta’s oil sands to an “open sewer” that contributes “to the reckless spewing of pollution into the Earth’s atmosphere.”
The proof, however, is in the statistics rather than political conjecture.
"Carbon emissions coming from the emerging countries swamp trends from advanced countries in North America and Europe. China alone has increased carbon emissions by almost 60% from 2005 to 2011. The absolute increase in metric tons is three times more than all the reduction that has taken place in all of Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States. Add India and Russia to China and CO2 emissions have increased by four billion metric tons in six years time....
Despite the efforts in the advance countries to reduce GHG emissions, their efforts are swamped by the huge increase of such emissions in emerging economies. If climate policies have any effect, they must be achievable at the global level. It makes little sense for advanced countries to take on policies that hurt their own economic growth if environmental benefits are unattainable."...
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VP Joe Biden says China opens a new coal mine every week:
5/9/2013, "Joe Biden: The Rolling Stone Interview," by Douglas Brinkley
"The Chinese are building something like one new coal-fired plant a week – a week. So pick the biggest coal-fired plant you know around here that's spewing pollution, and they're building them every week, and they've been doing that for the last six or seven years."...
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China emitted 4 billion tons more CO2 than the US in 2011:
12/2/12, "Carbon pollution up to 2 million pounds per second," AP, Seth Borenstein
"The overwhelming majority of the increase was from China, the world’s biggest carbon dioxide polluter. Of the planet’s top 10 polluters, the United States and Germany were the only countries that reduced their carbon dioxide emissions....
The latest pollution numbers, calculated by the Global Carbon Project, a joint venture of the Energy Department and the Norwegian Research Council, show that worldwide carbon dioxide levels are 54 percent higher than the 1990 baseline.
The 2011 figures for the biggest polluters:
1. China, up 10 percent to 10 billion tons.
2. United States, down 2 percent to 5.9 billion tons
3. India, up 7 percent to 2.5 billion tons.
4. Russia, up 3 percent to 1.8 billion tons.
5. Japan, up 0.4 percent to 1.3 billion tons.
6. Germany, down 4 percent to 0.8 billion tons.
7. Iran, up 2 percent to 0.7 billion tons.
8. South Korea, up 4 percent to 0.6 billion tons.
9. Canada, up 2 percent to 0.6 billion tons.
10. South Africa, up 2 percent to 0.6 billion tons."
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More record lows in Alaska's interior:
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5/13/13, "Record low temperatures recorded over Interior Alaska," newsminer.com, Tim Mowry, Fairbanks
.
.
"Just when you thought summer was finally peeking its head out from under the melting snow.
Fairbanks
set a new record low temperature of 22 degrees on Monday at Fairbanks
International Airport. That broke the old record of 26 degrees in 1938....
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.
The cold air mass resulted in record-low temperatures in other locations besides Fairbanks.
The
low of 22 degrees at Eielson Air Force Base broke the record of 26 set
in 1965. Bettles had a low of 10 degrees to shatter the old record of 20
degrees in 2007."...
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Europe badly wants to revive its bankrupt emissions trading system that was also a failure at improving the climate. The NY Times is the only entity in the world that could revive a bankrupt European scam, lie in order to do it, and get away with it:
5/9/13, "Commission should move to structural reform of the ETS," centreforeuropeanreform
"The UK House of Lords European Union Committee issued a report on 2nd May calling for an ETS price floor....So the Commission should be ambitious and press ahead with structural reform proposals, including a price floor....
National governments’ desire for extra revenue may actually help the ETS reform process. A €30 carbon price, rather than the current €3, would increase tenfold the amount of revenue that governments receive from the auctioning of emissions allowances. Many European governments badly need extra revenue. Even the German government needs more money in order to pay for its Energiewende."...
(Ed. note: The EU "climate" program is sold as "extra revenue" for bureaucrats. It's not sold as a remedy for climate because it isn't).
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