Originally Posted by
73qanda
It is misleading to me the way any CO2 graphic displayed in the media only ever goes back far enough to make the current level of around 430 look disastrous compared to the oscillations around the 200 mark for the last 800,000years or so.
It is much more informative if the graph goes back enough to see that CO2 levels have been significantly higher than they are today in the earths history. There is clearly a desire to create alarm rather than present the facts as they are, and that in turn creates mistrust.
Perhaps a graphic of climate against time, marking out those 'sweet spots' when we could thrive? Perhaps then it would better show that to deliberately choose (as we now do) to act in a way which will move us out of one of those rare 'sweet spots' is not a good idea.