CO2 and other sad tales.

 

Notice the red line at the right of the CO2 trace. Also notice how many thousands of years are represented. The red line is what we have been doing. Even the clean air from the lockdowns does not help this problem.  


This is US happening to the Atmosphere. I didn't mean United States. Pun not intentional, but interesting. 

Remember Marshall MacLuhan's The Medium is the Massage?  We have a collective short memory.   McCluhan categorized media as hot or cold (IIRC). I wonder what he'd say about Facebook. A clearly incendiary "medium" (is that a fair category?). I know and am related to people who seem to have had their brains eaten out by Triffids that Facebook infected them with. I have noticed that I myself get sucked in to the "conversations" as I try to overwhelm their echo chambers. 

 Some media, such as the movies, were "hot"—that is, they enhance one single sense, in this case vision, in such a manner that a person does not need to exert much effort in filling in the details of a movie image. McLuhan contrasted this with "cool" TV, which he claimed requires more effort on the part of the viewer to determine meaning, and comics, which due to their minimal presentation of visual detail require a high degree of effort to fill in details that the cartoonist may have intended to portray. A movie is thus said by McLuhan to be "hot", intensifying one single sense "high definition", demanding a viewer's attention, and a comic book to be "cool" and "low definition", requiring much more conscious participation by the reader to extract value^{.(From Wikipedia)}

 

This graph is for real. Taken from https://www.co2.earth/co2-ice-core-data