Political Quotes

“I am here today for the 99th time to remind us that we are sleepwalking our way to a climate catastrophe, and that it is time to wake up. NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States, recently announced an ominous milestone. This March, for the first time in human history, the monthly average of CO<INF>2</INF> in our atmosphere exceeded 400 parts per million. This chart shows the global concentration of carbon dioxide over the last few years as measured by NOAA. The level varies with the seasons. The Earth sort of inhales and exhales carbon dioxide as the seasons pass. But overall, we can see the steady prominent upward march of CO<INF>2</INF> levels, rising right here to above 400 parts per million for the month of March 2015. Scientists at NOAA's Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii first measured an atmospheric concentration of CO<INF>2</INF> above 400 parts per million in 2013--for the very first time. It reached up and it touched 400 parts per million for the first time and then receded again. Now, 2 years later, as we continue dumping carbon pollution into the atmosphere, the average weekly air sample from NOAA's entire global network of sampling stations measured an average--a month-long average--of 400 parts per million for the entire month of March. That is a daunting marker. Global carbon concentrations haven't been this high for at least 800,000 years, much longer--much longer--than humankind has walked the Earth.…”