BoJo Bids Adieu



Boris Johnson's experiment in premiership is drawing to a close. It was a matter of one gaffe upon another until his cabinet finally took away the keys to No. 10. With that the big oaf took to the airwaves to announce his retirement.

In other news, it looks like Spaceship Earth will narrowly avoid colliding with a 40 foot asteroid. The rock is travelling at some 25,000 miles per hour and will miss our little tushies by an astronomical whisker, barely 55,000 miles.

Meanwhile, it seems we're in a mad rush to render this same Spaceship Earth a ball of greenhouse gas.

I read a piece on CBC's website about the Keeling Curve, a measurement of changes in atmospheric CO2 levels.  During the 20th century we went from around 260 parts per million all the way to 370 ppm.  Over the first two decades of the 21st century we've hit 420 ppm.

What got my attention was the prediction that we will likely hit 450 ppm by the end of this decade.

Climate activist Bill McKibbin created a web site a few years ago called 350.org. He chose 350 as the CO2 target we must achieve to have a future.  Oops.


Comment Response:

"What, me worry?"  That does sum it up, NPoV.

I spoke to a friend, a doctor, the other day. It seems his patients now often voice concerns about the future and he has no helpful advice to convey.  He tells them just to try not to dwell on it.


Comments

  1. Northern PoVJuly 8, 2022 at 7:42 AM

    tRump, Bojo, Lil'PP*

    Perhaps the almighty looked down at her failed experiment and decreed: 'Send in the clowns'.

    "Not only is CO2 now at its highest levels in human history, but one would have to go all the way back beyond the beginning of human history — to the Pliocene Epoch, between 4.1 to 4.5 million years ago — to find a time when Earth's atmosphere held a similar amount of carbon."
    "Tans emphasized the long-lived nature of CO2, with each molecule lasting in the air for as long as 1,000 years. "In terms of human civilization, these emissions are forever," he said, endorsing plans to drive emissions down to net zero as soon as possible.
    ......
    Tans emphasized the long-lived nature of CO2, with each molecule lasting in the air for as long as 1,000 years. "In terms of human civilization, these emissions are forever," he said." ~Axios

    The clowns provide useful distractions for the likes of Trudeau, Biden and next UK-CON-PM.

    What, me worry?

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