"CO2 close to lowest levels ever for our planet"

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:59:28AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 05:13:57PM -0400, John Newman wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > On Oct 17, 2017, at 4:39 PM, John Newman <jnn at synfin.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > >> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 10:02:45AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > >>> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 12:53:56PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> > >>>> On 10/15/2017 10:50 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > >>>> This is one of the best put together summaries of the ???Global
> > >>>> Warming??? (originally global cooling, now PC "climate change") debate
> > >>>> I've ever seen:
> > >>> 
> > >>> Damn! Even I understood that!! Thanks! Ric
> > >> 
> > >> Here's an even easier one - see the picture on page 8 (another little
> > >> doc put together by Gil May) - 4 pine trees grown in controlled
> > >> conditions with varying CO2 levels.
> > >> 
> > >> Plants really needed the CO2 from the industrial revolution -
> > >> otherwise the levels were quite literally precariously low for life
> > >> on this planet. I'd like to see how long we'll be "right" for going
> > >> forward with the amount of plant food we've pumped into our
> > >> atmosphere. At least we're nearly out of the red zone...
> > > 
> > > Who the fuck is Gil May?
> > > 
> > > You are the most gullible idiot I've ever... wait, actually, you're
> > > quite representative of a bunch of gullible fucking morons that seem to
> > > dominate humanity. 
> > > 
> > > Link:
> > > 
> > > https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/
> > > 
> > > See attached graph.
> > > <24_co2-graph-021116-768px.jpg>
> > 
> > in case the significance doesn't dawn - look
> > at the time scale.
> 
> Thanks for your graph.
> 
> Sorry for the docx file - I guess you were unable to open that first
> one properly, I've saved it as PDF (attached) - check out the graph
> on page 10, and note its timescale - it's another time scale again.
> 
> These geologic time scales can be a little deceptive - you see a
> graph with a time scale of 400,000 years and think "oh wow, that's
> yuge! That's the bees knees of the facts we need to know" and then
> along comes another time scale - an order of magnitude greater.
> 
> Oh wait, let me recalibrate - actually TWO orders of magnitude
> greater.
> 
> So thinking you have the full picture is, of course, an easy mistake
> to make...
> 
> Regards,
> Z
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