PixelheadFeb 23
Peter Gleick
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We've breached 430 ppm CO2.
#climatechange
Feb 21 at 10:17pmWeb
Show threadKim Possible Feb 21
@petergleick no wonder we all have hacking coughs.
Show threadNicole ParsonsFeb 21

@petergleick

The fossil fuel industry is funding an extinction level event.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html

Koch Political Operation Spent Nearly $550 Million During 2024 Cycle

The huge sum shows that while the Koch network may not hold significant power at high levels of the Republican Party, it remains a financial juggernaut.

The New York Times
Show threadnanowizFeb 21

@Npars01 @petergleick

Roberts court owns this Financial obscenity

Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShellFeb 21

@petergleick

Emissions keep going up, and more and more of the planet continues to be pillaged, poisoned, razed or paved over. The insects are dying. The animals are dying. The plants are dying. The soil is dying, which happens to have twice as much carbon and water in it relative to the vegetation on top so the productive capacity, the biomass, is collapsing, along with the hydrological and carbon cycling this implies. And these crazy huge dams which turn countryside into methane

Show threadcrumbletiltskinFeb 21

@petergleick 6 points in 2 years?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1091926/atmospheric-concentration-of-co2-historic/

Atmospheric CO2 ppm by year 1959-2024| Statista

The average global atmospheric CO₂ concentration has increased by almost 20 percent since 1990, and set a record high in 2022.

Statista
Show threadRichard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️Feb 22

@petergleick

<<so what's the problem it's been going up and down for the last thousand years>>

Show threadslotosFeb 22
@petergleick So we’re rushing into territory where human cognitive capabilities measurably suffer, aren’t we?
Show threadKanaMaunaFeb 25

@slotos @petergleick

Within a few decades, driving a car with the windows rolled up will be dangerous.

Show threadFlaming CheetoFeb 22
@petergleick
Show threadTaran RampersadFeb 22

@petergleick yup. 870 ppmv is getting mighty close with that gradient.

This from 2023:

"...That would be edging close to the average CO2 concentrations (870 ppmv) associated with huge crashes in marine biodiversity over the last 534 million years, according to a study published June 22 in the journal Earth's Future..."

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/19-mass-extinctions-had-co2-levels-were-now-veering-towards-study-warns

19 'mass extinctions' had CO2 levels we're now veering toward, study warns

The research looked at peaks in biodiversity loss and their relationship with atmospheric CO2, finding 50 events over the last 534 million years that can be considered mass extinctions.

Live Science
Show threadTaran RampersadFeb 22

@petergleick my brain catching up with what i read today before bed...

Oxygen levels can be increased by nuclear reactors... but that isn't really a solution because it does so by electrolyzing water. It's too late for me to math, but glancing at estimates isn' giving me high optimism, particularly against thst gradient (and implicit ratio of atmosphere is in that ppmv)...

We need to STAHP BURNING DA STUFFS.

Show thread@iveylineFeb 22
@petergleick And its still going up.
Show threadNick44 🇪🇺 🇮🇹Feb 22

@petergleick the problem isnt' the absolute value of 430pm (or in future much more) becasue millions year ago it was so much higher.

the real problem is the rapid change: animals and environments hasn't enought time to adapt