How NOAA measures and tracks GHG's

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How NOAA keeps track of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases | NOAA Climate.gov

The extent to which our home planet changes in response to increases in man-made heat-trapping gases is one of the foremost questions for the scientific community, policy makers, and the general public alike. To help answer this question, NOAA’s Global Monitoring Division produces the Annual Greenhouse Gas Index—a yearly report on the combined influence of long-lived greenhouse gases on Earth’s surface temperature.

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Thank goodness for the Montreal Protocol.
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[Mr. H.]

Here's how the EIA measures C02, the "main driver"....

Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions declined in 2012

The lowest level in the U.S. in 20 years.

Too bad Liberals deny the science of hydraulic fracturing.

 

[Mr. H.]

Hydrocarbons are what have propelled mankind to magnificent heights, and hydrocarbons are what will save mankind in the end- despite politics.

 

[SSDD]

How NOAA keeps track of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases | NOAA Climate.gov

The extent to which our home planet changes in response to increases in man-made heat-trapping gases is one of the foremost questions for the scientific community, policy makers, and the general public alike. To help answer this question, NOAA’s Global Monitoring Division produces the Annual Greenhouse Gas Index—a yearly report on the combined influence of long-lived greenhouse gases on Earth’s surface temperature.

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Thank goodness for the Montreal Protocol.
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Great, a post about CO2 and you show us dramatic pictures of steam. Pretty good indication that it is a political propaganda piece. How much more stupid can you get? How about instead of showing dramatic pictures, you just provide some plain old unexciting evidence that an increase of 100ppm or even 200ppm or so of CO2 can actually cause warming.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

 

[Dot Com]

Hydrocarbons are what have propelled mankind to magnificent heights, and hydrocarbons are what will save mankind in the end- despite politics.

yeah, its what has allowed us to farm in the desert then send a head of lettuce across country on a carbon-spewing, air sled. Those things aren't necessarily "advancements"

 

[Mr. H.]

Hydrocarbons are what have propelled mankind to magnificent heights, and hydrocarbons are what will save mankind in the end- despite politics.

yeah, its what has allowed us to farm in the desert then send a head of lettuce across country on a carbon-spewing, air sled. Those things aren't necessarily "advancements"

Why are you stuck in a perpetual state of morose defeatism?

 

[SSDD]

Hydrocarbons are what have propelled mankind to magnificent heights, and hydrocarbons are what will save mankind in the end- despite politics.

yeah, its what has allowed us to farm in the desert then send a head of lettuce across country on a carbon-spewing, air sled. Those things aren't necessarily "advancements"

Why are you stuck in a perpetual state of morose defeatism?

Side effect of being liberal.

 

[Crick]

Side effect of being sentient.

 

[Dot Com]

I refuse to let deniers tear this thread down!!!

 

[SSDD]

I refuse to let deniers tear this thread down!!!

This idiot thread is tearing itself down. It is a fraud and that's what eventually happens to all cases of fraud. They are unable to support themselves.

Why did your idiot video have to begin with dramatic images off steam when it was supposedly about CO2? Answer: Fraud.

 

[jc456]

Side effect of being sentient.

you meant sediment right?

 

[jc456]

I refuse to let deniers tear this thread down!!!

But you're doing such a find job of it. Thanks!

 

[Dot Com]

this is a denier-free thread

 

[CrusaderFrank]

How NOAA measures and tracks GHG's

 

[mamooth]

The OCO-2 satellite (Orbital Carbon Observatory) launches July 1 (OCO-1 was lost by launch failure). OCO-2 is going up on a Delta, a much more reliable rocket than the Taurus rockets (which failed 3 times out of 9).

Pity the poor deniers. The amount of wiggle room they have to explain their constant failures keeps shrinking. They're like fish in a pond that's drying up, hence all their gasping and flopping around.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The OCO-2 satellite (Orbital Carbon Observatory) launches July 1 (OCO-1 was lost by launch failure). OCO-2 is going up on a Delta, a much more reliable rocket than the Taurus rockets (which failed 3 times out of 9).

Pity the poor deniers. The amount of wiggle room they have to explain their constant failures keeps shrinking. They're like fish in a pond that's drying up, hence all their gasping and flopping around.

Can you show us how a 120PPM increase in CO2 raises temperature and drops ocean pH from 8.25 to 8.15?

 

[Crick]

Can you show us how a 120PPM increase in CO2 raises temperature and drops ocean pH from 8.25 to 8.15?

No. We could show almost anyone else. But your combination of ignorance and prejudice (that is, you'd made up your mind there was no evidence before you ever looked) prevents us from showing you pretty much anything.

Now if you were actually open minded about this and had enough smarts to understand what you're looking at, you could quite easily do a search on your very own that would show you mountains of science clearly demonstrating that the CO2 humans have put into the atmosphere since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution is responsible for the acidification that the ocean has suffered. It would also tell you that this acidification has happened so rapidly that the weathering of CaCO3 ashore that normally buffers pH changes from atmospheric CO2 excursions will not be able to fulfill that function and the result will be a MUCH more dramatic acidification of the ocean than at any time in the past - and that includes several extinction events.

That brings up a good point. In the chemistry discussions around here you will often see the term "equilibrium". Well, assuming equilibrium in a system works pretty well in the lab, where you're looking at a test tube or a beaker in which you've poured the reagents and mixed them thoroughly. It doesn't work so well in the real world. Most natural systems are NOT in equilibrium. The acidification of the ocean is one of them.