{"id":47727,"date":"2018-06-08T08:37:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T14:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=47727"},"modified":"2018-06-08T08:37:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T14:37:46","slug":"wtft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=47727","title":{"rendered":"WTFT"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the broad world of WTFT! That last T is for Trump.<\/p>\n

\"twilight_trump\"Meanwhile in the Trump dimension:\u00a0 “Trump Orders a Lifeline for Struggling Coal and Nuclear Plants,”\u00a0\u00a0 NYT, June 1, 2018<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Essay question for the day, compare and contrast these news articles. This one found in the MPR Updraft<\/a> blog by friend Tom Crane.<\/p>\n

“The rate CO2 is increasing in our atmosphere is accelerating. The average CO2 increase was 1.6 ppm per year in the 1980s. It\u2019s now increasing at a rate of 2.2 ppm per year during the past decade.<\/p>\n

\"co2Yale Environment 360 elaborates<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of us had hoped to see the rise of CO2\u00a0slowing by now, but sadly that isn\u2019t the case,\u201d\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0Ralph Keeling, director of the University of California San Diego\u2019s Scripps CO2 Program, which maintains the Mauna Loa record with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. \u201cIt could still happen in the next decade or so if renewables replace enough fossil fuels.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cCO2\u00a0levels are continuing to grow at an all-time record rate because emissions from coal, oil, and natural gas are also at record high levels,\u201d Pieter Tans,\u00a0lead scientist of NOAA\u2019s\u00a0Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network<\/a>, said in a statement. \u201cToday\u2019s emissions will still be trapping heat in the atmosphere thousands of years from now.\u201d”<\/p>\n


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