Understanding 350. . . .
•And what does this 350 number even mean?
350 is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide—measured in "Parts Per Million" in our atmosphere. 350 PPM—it's the number humanity needs to get back to as soon as possible to avoid runaway climate change.
•How do we get the world on track to get to 350?
We need an international agreement to reduce carbon emissions fast. The United Nations is working on a treaty, which is supposed to be completed in December of 2009 at a conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. But the current plans for the treaty are much too weak to get us back to safety. This treaty needs to put a high enough price on carbon that we stop using so much. It also needs to make sure that poor countries are ensured a fair chance to develop.
•Isn't America the biggest source of the problem? What about China and India?
Yes—America has been producing more CO2 than any other country, and leads the industrialized world in per capita emissions. Even though China now produces as much CO2 annually, the US still produces many times more carbon per person than China, India, and most other countries. And America has blocked meaningful international action for many years. . . .
China and India and the rest of the developing world need to be involved. But since per capita they use far less energy than the West, and have been doing so for much shorter periods of time, and are using fossil fuels to pull people out of poverty, their involvement needs to be different. The West is going to have to use some tiny percentage of the wealth it built up filling the atmosphere with carbon to transfer technology north to south so that these countries can meet their legitimate development needs without burning all their coal.
Wonder how much C02 emissions would have been saved if these people that are full of nothing but hot air would have stayed home?
OMG. . . .I see a dog and it uses more CO2 than an SUV. . . . .
Wonder if they offered these kids a sandwich to show up like they offered free beer in Germany for Obama's speech?
Watch this video and you will see what kind of fruitcakes we are dealing with. . . .One blogger wrote: So, they don't want us to eat meat, because farting cows emit too much co2, they don't want us to drive co2 emitting cars, farmers in CA have been destroyed financially to save the 2 inch Delta Smelt fish, and now they cry (literally) about the loss of trees.
At least the hippies of the 60's and 70's were mellow on their marijuana, these nutjobs must be on Meth. . . . . .
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The 350.org website does nothing but demonize America. . . .We are the real threat to the world. It sounds like they got their talking points from listening to President Obama going around the world apologizing for America.
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Chart below from the huffingtonpost. . . . .
Makes you wonder who was testing the CO2 levels in the atmosphere 400,000 years ago. . . . .Wonder if it was Adam and Eve :) :)
According to gotquestions.org:
As Christians, we should be concerned about our effect on our environment. God appointed man to be the steward of this world (Genesis 1:28), not the destroyer of it. However, we should not allow environmentalism to become a form of idolatry, where the “rights” of an inanimate planet and its non-human creatures are held in higher esteem than God (Romans 1:25) and man created in His image.
go to this website to see the rest of the pics and to read more about 350:
http://www.350.org/home?page=45
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEaHyzbqTA
http://www.gotquestions.org/global-warming.html
