Why are my CO2 readings the same now as they were in 1969?

Question

In my job I have taking CO2 readings in ppm since 1969 on a weekly basis and they are the same today as they were in 1969.

Answer 1

b/c there is no such thing as "global warming" and the lies Gore tells us about CO2 going up are his way of getting back on TV!

Answer 2

one would hope nobody's using those readings.

they're wrong.

you can read all over the place that they're wrong.

the world isn't flat.

heavy things don't fall faster than light things.

gravity and global warming are more just than theories, they're real.

CO2 is climbing.

Answer 3

Where are you taking readings?  On the surface of the earth or at an elevation?  What elevation?

If you truly worked in a job where you had to do this, you wouldn't be asking this question.

Answer 4

Because the people who say global warming is real have no idea what they're talking about.

Answer 5

Some possible explanations:

1) You are measuring the CO2 levels in blood samples (mine was recently 32 mEq/L)

2) You are measuring the CO2 level indoors where the buildings heating/cooling system, human/plant population, etc. has created a stable air-quality environment somewhat isolated from our planets atmosphere

3) You are measuring in an area where high CO2 output is present (e.g. exhaust of coal generation power plant).

4) You are completely making this up

If you are really looking for a serious answer, you should provide at least enough information so we'd know what you're referring too.  There are numerous measurements of CO2, but the one of concern in this forum is our atmosphere where it causes global warming.  And there it's clearly rising:

http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends...

Answer 6

I don't know, but thousands of scientists all over the world are getting different results.  Many years of data at many stations here, pretty much all show a substantial rise.

http://gaw.kishou.go.jp/wdcgg/

Outside of urban areas, they're all pretty consistent too.  An increase from about 320 ppm in1969 to about 390 ppm now.

Something is very wrong with your data.

Answer 7

Because you're taking readings at the surface where local effects (i.e. emissions from cars) dominate, instead of up in the atmosphere.

Answer 8

Because you're right....CO2 levels have not increased.  The extreme thin-line measurement may fluctuate slightly due to natural causes, but overall the level remains constant.

Answer 9

Probably because you live in a city. If you were to take carbon monoxide readings at the tailpipe of your car, they wouldn't change much either, even if the overall level of CO in the atmosphere were changing.

To get a reliable reading of background CO2, you need to get as far away from industrial sources of CO2 as you possibly can, such as an island in the middle of the Pacific, or Antarctica. That's where scientists do it, and that's what shows that the background level of CO2 has risen 38% since preindustrial times.

Answer 10

I wonder if the ADULTS were equally as pissed at the save the whales croud as I am at this stupid mascarade about CChange

Answer 11

This is interesting, there are to few reading areas to prove CO2 has been rising.  I think there is one on Honolulu in the US.  That is the most common sited that levels have increases.  What area were yours taken?

Answer 12

'Cause Global Warming is a lie!

Answer 13

Someone posted that "gravity and global warming aren't theories"??? I beg to differ. Do not link a defined and provable scientific fact like the existence of gravity with the THEORY of global warming.  This makes you sound like a religious zealot. Even the most informed and most biased scientists that believe in global warming will parse their words and say that is is "very likely" that there is human caused global warming or "there is consensus" that humans are causing global warming. Even they know, it is a THEORY. It is NOT a fact. In fact, it is debatable that the Earth is warming at all, let alone humans being the cause.

   Your CO2 readings are the same as they were in 1969 because CO2 levels are the same as they were in 1969. If there has been any change, it has be so infinitessimally small that you would only find it if you were being paid to look for it by a government grant or environmental group.

    It's similar to proclaiming a 0.6 degree celsius temperature increase over a century is a crisis. Am I the only one who thinks that kind of temperature change is amazingly stable for a century of measurement on a planet that alternates between ice ages? Again, you would only notice it if you were being paid to look for it and exploit it for political reasons.  Carry on, keep doing your job, don't expect to see any big surprises!

Answer 14

Because global warming is the worlds latest religion that NO ONE can prove the validity of!!!! If you really want something real to worry about, how about trying to figure out how to save abused children!!