Harry, it seems that I'm not the only gloom and doomster when it comes to atmospheric CO2 levels.
Ed http://www.alternet.org/environment/what-will-it-take-us-recognize-way-we-live-could-be-destroying-life-we-know-it?akid=10436.1074389.CIvo9E&rd=1&src=newsletter840307&t=11 Excerpt: Along with the news that we had hit the 400 ppm mark on the CO2 curve for the first time since the Pliocene epoch came scary quotes from scientist after scientist calling this our last chance before the point of no return. Unless we act, children born today will see temperatures rise irreversibly and sea levels rise catastrophically. Weather patterns will be disrupted, deserts and drought will spread and—in the words of Lord Stern, head of the U.K.’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment—“hundreds of millions of people will be forced to leave their homelands because their crops and animals will have died ... [W]hen they try to migrate into new lands ... [they will be brought] into armed conflict with people already living there. Nor will it be an occasional occurrence. It could become a permanent feature of life on Earth."
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