Mauna Loa Observatory - Another CO2 Record

[alaskyn66]

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Originally posted by 1voyager1
[There, that aught'a start a totally new and different fire.]

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How dare you..

[Guest]

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Originally posted by imagtek

During the Permian/Triassic mass extinction event, runaway global warming cooked the oceans into anoxic graveyards and 95% of all species on earth went extinct.

And that was BEFORE humans were around to transport countless gigatons of buried carbon into the atmosphere. During the Permian/Triassic event, the coal and oil from the earlier Carboniferous geologic epoch were still buried.

Get ready to rumble and be glad you are not young.

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You can't fix Samsara.

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You are more likely to freeze than fry, IMHO. You go into winter, and just stay there, stuck on frozen - year after year after year after year after decade after century, after millennium.

[kalakoa]

Maybe a water selling industry is the golden egg for hawaii.. sell it by the tanker full to west coast.

Sounds like "desecration", so expect some "protectors" on that one.

Move to other areas. The pendulum of climate change swings from one extreme to the other.

Land in Alaska is still cheap -- get some now before climate change makes it tropical.

[randomq]

We won't cook or freeze, we'll all be cannon fodder in World War 3, which will be fought over dwindling food, water, and inhabitable land...

[kalakoa]

we'll all be cannon fodder in World War 3

Not quite; those who aren't vaporized in WW3 will be fighting WW4 with bows and arrows.

[tada]

I just thought of something. Why is this facility located at Mauna Loa? How do they insure that volcanic activity doesn't interfere with the count?

[kalakoa]

Why is this facility located at Mauna Loa?

Protector activities would definitely interfere with the count -- Mauna Loa is obviously not sacred, or it would attract $1.4B construction projects.

[alaskyn66]

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Originally posted by tada

I just thought of something. Why is this facility located at Mauna Loa? How do they insure that volcanic activity doesn't interfere with the count?

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https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-mea...tainty.htm

Good explanation...as any.

[MarkP]

Given the wind up there it is hard to imagine a plume of CO2 coming out of the ground remaining intact more than a few inches above the ground.

[Eric1600]

I've toured the HAO facility. They 3 altitude sample points to determine if the CO2 is local or atmospheric. And they use a calibration gas to make sure sensors are working correctly. They also have sites around the world to compare against as well. Here are some details of the measurements and calibrations: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/about/...ments.html

They also track global changes in fossil fuel burnings because most of the worlds population is the in northern hemisphere so you can see it change with the seasons.

The site on Mauna Loa has been the longest recording CO2 site in the world, it's a pretty amazing place and there is a lot of good science experiments going on up there.

https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/mlso/mlso-home-page

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/weekly.html