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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
400 ppm: A Milestone that Means Everything, and Nothing
Climate Central: I'm not big on taking note of milestones. They're artificial, and usually meaningless, but people get all worked up about them anyway. I don't like to stay up late on New Year's Eve, for example, because Dec. 31 is a purely arbitrary date. Nothing real actually begins the next day, but we all pretend otherwise. I have similar feelings about the first day of spring, the temperature reaching 100° as opposed to 99° and all sorts of other magic-sounding dates and numbers that don't have any real significance....
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