Sunday, March 6, 2016

The Humor Page: February, 2016, Atmospheric CO2 Posted -- Saturday, March 5, 2016


In January, 2016, the previous month, atmospheric CO2 was 402.52 according to the same source, same location.

From 402.52 to 404.16 is a 0.25% change.

400/1,000,000 = 0.04%.

402.52/1,000,000 = 0.04%

404.16/1,000,000 = 0.04%

According to wiki, just to help keep things in perspective:
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is an important trace gas in Earth's atmosphere currently constituting about 0.04% (400 parts per million) of the atmosphere.
Reconstructions show that concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere have varied, ranging from as high as 7,000 parts per million during the Cambrian period about 500 million years ago to as low as 180 parts per million during the Quaternary glaciation of the last two million years.
There are credible reports that we may have dodged a "silver bullet": had CO2 continued to decrease we may have experienced a worsening Cold Age. The "Dinosaur Era" had CO2 concentrations 5 times higher than current CO2 levels.

I can go back to sleep now.

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What Else Might Be On That San Bernardino iPhone?

From a comment over at Macrumors, it could also hold the...
  • Secrets to Life, the Universe, and Everything (42)
  • Nuclear Launch Codes (000000000 - Kennedy was afraid that he would forget them)
  • The lost books of the Bible (What did Moses and Jesus do on their days off?)
  • The highest word score possible for a good game of Scrabble (No, JXQUIZ isn't a word)
  • What the San Bernardino terrorists had for lunch that day (wait, that's already on Facebook)
  • How men can know what women are thinking (If this makes you mad, well, how was I supposed to know?)
  • The sports scores for every T-Ball game for the next 50 years (Back to the Future reference)
  • My lost homework from 8th grade (Started a downward trend that kept me off of the volleyball team)
  • The Lost Hits of Hansen, 2005-2015 (I do have a pirate recording of them in concert...)
  • Where Nicolas Cage put the roll of microfiche he found in "The Rock" (according to JHUFrank) 
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Boogie Woogie Blowout

Mitch Woods' Boogie Woogie Blowout featuring Pinetop Perkins

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