Please watch the Planet's Forests, Inhale and Exhale, with the Seasons ...
Observing Plant Life Health From Space
http://www.youtube.com/...
Now, watch Earth's "Ocean Forests", Breathe in and out, as well ...
Observing The Biosphere From Space
http://www.youtube.com/...
We live in Epic Times.
For nearly the last Million years, CO2 levels in the Atmosphere, stayed mostly below 300 ppm (parts per million).
Well those happy days are apparently over.
Welcome to the New Normal!
Earth's CO2 Home Page
Atmospheric CO2 for May 2010
392.94 ppm
Preliminary data released June 7, 2010 (NOAA-ESRL MLO)
Well maybe 393 PPM of CO2 is not really that big of a deal?
What level is safe?
The upper safety limit for atmospheric CO2 is 350 parts per million (ppm). Atmospheric CO2 levels have stayed higher than 350 ppm since early 1988.
Well maybe that extra 43 ppm's is not really big enough to matter? (... we can hope.)
Imagine your local Widget Factory, employs dozens of workers,
to put together hundreds of the latest Must-have Widgets, each and every day.
Now imagine this Widget Factory, in the hopes of increasing profits,
took all its industrial by-product Gunk, gathered them up each day,
and quietly dumped them, each night around midnight, when no one was looking,
in the local River waterway. Pollution be gone!
Instant Profit Gain, right? No costly "Gunk Processing" equipment to buy or operate. No extra hidden costs, need be added to that Price of a Widget -- which could keep consumers from flocking to Widget Retail Outlets, right?
Wrong ... ONE Big Problem in this Free Market scheme ...
The Folks living downstream on that local River waterway!
The Folks making a living on the beauty and productivity of that River --
They all might notice that somethings up, in their once pristine Waterway?
They might eventually figure it out too, that "Widget One" has been "cutting corners", in its responsibility to be "good neighbors".
