The Onion hasn’t lived up to its journalistic standards of fake news, so I’m writing a piece for The Garlic, and interviewing Carbon Dioxide to get its thoughts on surpassing the dangerous 400 parts per million mark.
John Klein (JK): So, Carbon Dioxide, do you mind if I call you Carbon for short?
Carbon Dioxide (CO2): Sure John, no problem. I’ll even let you abbreviate my name to CO2 without making the two subscript.
JK: Very kind of you, Carbon.
CO2: No problem, it’s my pleasure to help out. It’s the least I can do, for helping to destroy your climate.
JK: It’s really humanity’s fault though for burning so much fossil fuel. You can’t take responsibility for that, you’re just a molecule created through oxidation of carbon.
Let’s get to the questions. How do you feel about surpassing 400 ppm in the atmosphere for the first time during human civilization?
CO2: I feel pretty negative about the whole situation, right down to my electrons. I was quite content at levels under 300 ppm, and it seems like only a few years ago that I was at 350 ppm.
JK: It was only a few years ago you were at 350 ppm, before 1988.
CO2: Anyway, I feel really burned out by all of this talk about sequestering me. I’d rather spend time at the ocean.
JK: You mean you by becoming carbonic acid in the Earth’s oceans, and harming shell fish and other aquatic life?
CO2: There’s no malice intended, I’m just a molecule, as you’ve already pointed out. If you had a choice between taking a soak in the ocean, or being put into a high pressure situation under the Canadian plains, what would you choose?
JK: I see your point.
CO2: It’s not easy being humankind’s most despised molecule, with some many millions out to reduce my levels. I can count on some support from misguided, or well paid carbon fluffers, but it’s not easy being anti-green. At least plants (and potted plants in Congress) love me.
See:
https://twitter.com/PeterGleick/status/332290008906080257
JK: The plants that don’t end up underwater from flooding, or burned from drought, love you?
CO2: Yes.
JK: My city has been trying to cut back on creating Carbon Dioxide since the early 1990s. Here’s a sign from 1999’s Cool Down The City Challenge:
They installed one bike rack for ten bikes. There are over 220,000 people in Regina. It would appear people don’t take Carbon Dioxide very seriously.
CO2: My influence on human civilization and daily life is vastly underestimated by most people.
JK: Indeed. It was a pleasure speaking to you, I should let you get back to warming our atmosphere too much.
CO2: Thanks for asking me to talk, John. I think I’m going to chill for a bit (as a liquid, naturally).
JK: Poor Carbon gets such a bum rap. There are so many good politicians on its case.
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http://o.canada.com/2013/07/02/unprecedented-ocean-acidification-from-greenhouse-gases-putting-canadian-waters-at-risk-says-report