@CNN was among many mainstream media outlets promoting the Global Warming Scare of the Week.
Under the headline “Greenhouse gas reaches alarming new record,” CNN claimed the pace of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions has become alarming.
A look at the objective data, however, reveals just the opposite. While atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels continue to gradually rise, they are rising at a pace that is at the very bottom of warmists’ projections.
That is hardly “alarming,” CNN.
The global warming activist community has long predicted rapid rises in atmospheric CO2 concentration.
The Association for Canadian Educational Resources (ACER), for example, projects that “by 2100 the atmospheric CO2 concentration (the gas responsible for most temperature change) will be between 540 and 970 ppm,” depending on anthropogenic emissions.
CO2.Earth predicts that under a business-as-usual scenario, CO2 concentrations will be approximately 900 ppm.
The OECD projects CO2 concentrations will be between 725 ppm and 950 ppm under its business-as-usual scenario.
Given those predictions, CNN’s “alarming new record” would be true if CO2 concentrations are rising at a pace to reach or breach the top range of projections – in other words, at a pace for at least 900 ppm by the year 2100.
But that is far from the case.
CNN, apparently not expecting people to critically examine its data, published a chart showing CO2 concentrations going back to the 1950s.
The most striking aspect of the chart is that CO2 concentrations have been rising along a straight line of just over two (2) ppm per year, with very little variance.
With current concentrations at 410 ppm, we can multiply the 82 years left in the century by 2.1 and expect CO2 concentrations to be 582 ppm in the year 2100, even if there is no concerted effort to reduce CO2 emissions.
That is at the very bottom of warmists’ projections.
Absent some unforeseen and unexplained reason why CO2 concentrations will in the near future rise much more rapidly than is presently occurring, the pace of atmospheric CO2 concentrations is quite modest rather than alarming.
Read more at CFACT
CCD Editor’s Note: Ever wonder why outlets like CNN use CO2 graphs that stop at 500,000 years like they do in their current article? Because it completely defeats their cause. Overall, the Earth is CO2-starved based on historical data:
It is important to note the difference between increasing CO2 concentration and increasing human CO2 emissions. These emissions have risen again this year after stabilizing for about 4 years. This has not resulted in any change in the growth rate of the concentration. There are several papers demonstrating that concentration growth rate is not dependent on emissions rate presumably because it is controlled by natural emissions. In my opinion there is no reason to believe that reducing or even stopping human emissions will have any measurable effect on the concentration growth rate.
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If it comes from CNN then its all fake news after all CNN was the creation of Red Ted Turner who created other junk like Captain Planet and the Planeteers,Network Earth,One Child One Voice and National Geographic Explorer
Once again CNN lies with manipulated bogus data.
Once again exposed for the liars they are.
The MSM might think of telling you this
BUT
They’re to busy counting George Soros’ payments.
If the decision is between truth and money,
They’ll take the money.
The biggist Garbage Truck is CNN it hauls its garbage to the viewers that then the landfill or dump then these the New York Manure Spreader(Times)spreading it far and wide
What will disappear first CNN or ice from the Arctic ?
Ok dumb question, I give CNN 3 years .