Once a moron, sometimes always a moron - David Sirota
I first
ran across Mr. Sirota's "work" in April when he published
this piece in Salon:
Let�s hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American
The usual yadda, yadda, yadda...
I was reading
Watts Up With That tonight and see that he is up to his usual journalistic stylings:
Tastes Great, Less Incinerating!
How much stupidity is needed to win a Pulitzer? The competition is fierce, apparently certain writers are piling it on high and deep in the attempt.
For example, there is a sterling example of post-modern post-journalistic brilliance that just popped up at Salon by David Sirota, Would we give up burgers to stop climate change? As will be seen, the heaping begins with the subtitle: �A new report suggests that adjusting our diet can slow global warming. Now let�s see if our politics will let us�
The first paragraph is quite revealing:In case you missed the news, humanity spent the Earth Day week reaching another sad milestone in the history of catastrophic climate change: For the first time, measurements of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surpassed 400 parts per million, aka way above what our current ecosystem can handle.
On the NOAA/ESRL Mauna Loa Observatory CO₂ measurements page, currently the last released monthly atmospheric concentration mean was March 2013, 397.34 ppm. Where the �surpassed 400� came from is quite unknown, not revealed. And overall not that important, as about now is when the annual cycle is peaking. The annual mean is far more scientifically relevant, and was 393.82ppm in 2012. The 2013 mean will not be breaking 400ppm. There may indeed have been a recent daily measurement above 400ppm, which shows why they use monthly means due to the range of daily variations. It will be quite surprising if the final April mean breaks 400ppm.
And how has the ecosystem responded to the �earth-shattering� increase? Crop yields up, the Sahel is greening, etc. Perhaps the ecosystem is having the equivalent of a surge of manic behavior right before a nervous breakdown. Sure, it looks great now, but soon it�ll all come crashing down. Yup, any decade now. No longer away than the next century, certainly.
Yup - CO2 -- the
Gas of Life.
Without it, there would be zero plants on Earth. The marine environment thrives on it as well. More CO2, more plants, more corals, more plankton. Everybody's happy...
Posted by DaveH at May 5, 2013 10:04 PM