CO2 Levels Expected to Rise Rapidly in 2019, Met Office Scientists Warn

by | Jan 29, 2019

Why we’re heading for a ‘climate catastrophe’ and what are we doing?

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Why we’re heading for a ‘climate catastrophe’ – BBC Newsnight

This year will see one of the biggest CO2 surges in more than six decades of measurements, according to the Met Office.

Rising emissions due to the world’s continued appetite for fossil fuels will combine with reduced absorption of greenhouse gas by withering grasslands and forests.

Describing the prediction as “worrying and compelling”, scientists said it was an urgent reminder that the time to cut out carbon is now

CO2 levels will be at a record high once again after emissions reached unprecedented levels last year, dashing hopes the world had finally hit “peak carbon”.

Besides fossil fuels pumping out the harmful gas, natural weather fluctuations will exacerbate the problem as they hamper the ability of carbon sinks to store it.

In 2019 an upward swing in tropical Pacific Ocean temperature will make many regions warmer and drier.

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As drought sets in and plants dry out, they will be less capable of sucking CO2 from the atmosphere, and massive deforestation in places like the Amazon is making this problem even worse.

The new predictions were based on monitoring at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii, which has registered a 30 per cent increase in the concentration of CO2 since 1958.

“Carbon sinks have saved us from what has already happened – the future rise would have been about double if it wasn’t for the sinks. So we are lucky they exist, to be honest,” Professor Richard Betts of the Met Office Hadley Centre told The Independent.

“But the sinks themselves are affected by the climate, and that’s an important thing because it shows that as climate change continues in the future it may affect their strength.”

If emissions continue to rise, a major concern is that the carbon sinks currently storing carbon will cease to function, potentially leading to uncontrollable warming and a scenario dubbed “hothouse Earth”.

a close up of a map: Forecast CO2 concentrations at the Mauna Loa station for 2019 (orange), along with previous forecast concentrations and the real observed data (Met Office)

© Provided by Independent Digital News & Media Limited Forecast CO2 concentrations at the Mauna Loa station for 2019 (orange),

Last year Mauna Loa observatory recorded concentrations of over 410ppm in April, marking the highest level that had been reached in at least 800,000 years.

This year CO2 levels in the atmosphere are likely to hit 411 parts per million (ppm).

The Met Office forecast predicts the average increase in CO2 will be around 2.75ppm, the third largest annual rise on record, matched only by two years in which El Nino Pacific warming events took place.

Gallery: Places around the world already affected by climate change (Photo Services)

  • Slide 1 of 25: In this photo taken Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017, baobab trees grow alongside one another in a field in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe. Africa's ancient baobab, with it's distinctive swollen trunk and known as the "tree of life," is under a new mysterious threat, with some of the largest and oldest dying abruptly in recent years. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)
  • Slide 2 of 25: A picture taken on May 10, 2017 shows bare sand and dried tree trunks standing out at Theewaterskloof Dam, which has less than 20% of it's water capacity, near Villiersdorp, about 108km from Cape Town. South Africa's Western Cape region which includes Cape Town declared a drought disaster on May 22 as the province battled its worst water shortages for 113 years. This dam is the main water source for the city of Cape Town, and there is only 10% of it's usual capacity left for human consumption, at the last 10% is not useable, due to the silt content. / AFP PHOTO / Rodger BOSCH (Photo credit should read RODGER BOSCH/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Slide 3 of 25: ANTARCTICA - OCTOBER 28: Ice is viewed near the coast of West Antarctica from a window of a NASA Operation IceBridge airplane on October 28, 2016 in-flight over Antarctica. NASA's Operation IceBridge has been studying how polar ice has evolved over the past eight years and is currently flying a set of 12-hour research flights over West Antarctica at the start of the melt season. Researchers have used the IceBridge data to observe that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet may be in a state of irreversible decline directly contributing to rising sea levels. NASA and University of California, Irvine (UCI) researchers have recently detected the speediest ongoing Western Antarctica glacial retreat rates ever observed. The United Nations climate change talks begin November 7 in the Moroccan city of Marrakech. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
  • Slide 4 of 25: In this April 2, 2017 photo, a man bathes in a spring water pool along the Dead Sea shore near the Israeli Kibbutz of Ein Gedi. The Dead Sea, a marvel of the natural world, is shrinking. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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“We need to reduce emissions from fossil fuel use, increase soil carbon sequestration to ‘lock-up’ CO2, decelerate deforestation and land conversion, and promote less polluting more sustainable agriculture,” said Professor Nick Ostle from Lancaster University, who was not involved in the Met Office research.

We Review Delicious EVO Hemp Shakes

by | Jun 18, 2017

Today Hempington Post does a live HEMP Product review. Darlene Mea and Tysha Tinney try Randy’s Hemp Remedy products and talk about a hemp water filter. They also made delicious smoothies with EVO hemp products.

@randys_hemp_remedy is a family owned business started after Randy Strause, their father/husband passed away from brain cancer. Their products are botanically complete containing naturally occurring cannabinoids from hemp. These are the products they wished they had when Randy was diagnosed.

Please follow them and to find out more go to randysclub.org.

The hemp microfiber water filters were developed by Michael Crippen of foundation for industrial hemp production and research (FIHPR). As a non-profit, FIHPR’s goal is to provide filters at no-cost to in-need communities and to help modernize aging and developing infrastructure around the world.  To help support and purchase one of these filters go to fihpr.org.
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Hemp Makeover

by | Jun 18, 2017

Darlene Mea and Tysha Tinney of Hempington Post talk about doing a hemp lifestyle make over.
There are many health reasons to add hemp to your diet, and using hemp products is good for the environment and your body. Darlene explains why.

 

Hemp Is Revitalizing the Global Economy After 80 Year Prohibition

by | May 4, 2017

The more we learn about hemp the quicker we can get things to where they should have been all along.

Hemp is one of the most desirable, industrial plants on the planet.  From its tensile strength to its hardiness, the plant can grow almost anywhere and requires half the water that wheat would require.  Its seeds are incredibly healthy food and the herb, itself, is used as one of the greatest medicines on the planet.

Before the media-manipulated hemp prohibition of 1937, 30% of Americans were farming and US hemp was among the best in the world.  It was a hugely popular export and the backbone of much of the agricultural economy of the time.  80 years of ignorance has left the plant on the Schedule 1 narcotic drug list, pretending as if it is more dangerous than crystal meth and cocaine (both schedule 2 drugs).  Regardless, since entering the age of information, knowledge of the plant and the willingness of farmers to grow it has skyrocketed.

Canada, a front-runner in the legalization effort, is already raking in $1 billion a year on the production and sale of hemp.  Many are seeing that it is the key to the revitalization of the agricultural economy and have followed suit.  In 2014, Barack Obama signed the farm bill that legalized the use of industrial hemp for research purposes.

Rick Trojan, founder of Colorado-based Hemp Road Trip, has been hard at work petitioning the US government to pass the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2015, which would make it legal to grow hemp for use in manufacturing a variety of products.  “Hemp, as a rotational crop, leaves the ground better than it found it,” Trojan told KSNT.com in Kansas. “It is also a great alternative for farmers.”

Recent moves to reinvigorate the hemp industry has given farmers hope for a new cash crop and inspired others to begin farming.  It’s an easy plant to handle and the demand is soaring.

For now, the importation of seeds must take precedence, as the supply was depleted over the 8 decades of prohibition.

*Article originally appeared at Minds.

Cannabis + Cancer = CURE?

by | Apr 25, 2017

Can Cannabis Cure Cancer?

Is Western Medicine and Big Pharma killing Americans? This is a question, not a statement.  Reports from around the world continue to point to the Cannabis Plant as having the healing properties and the food our body requires to heal itself.  

Yet the plant is still illegal in most states and on the federal level… Up until recently most of us didn’t know we had an endocannabinoid system in our body.  This endocannabinoid system which exists within each of us has receptors throughout our body, receptors for Cannabis.  Our Body has a system set up for the richness of the cannabis plant.  Endocannabinoid system acts as a regulator of immune homeostasis in the gut.  Discovering this fact alone, three years ago, was the primary reason I became the founder of HempingtonPost.com. How could something so majorly important be kept from the American public for over 70 years?  No more secrets – no more lies – we have human rights!

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Since 1974 studies have shown that cannabis has anti-tumor effects. The results of the 1974 study, reported in an Aug. 18, 1974, Washington Post newspaper feature, were that cannabis’s component,THC, “slowed the growth of lung cancers, breast cancers and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratory mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36 percent.” In 1975 an article in the Journal of the National cancer institute titled “Antineoplastic Activity of Cannabinoids,” they reported that “Lewis lung adenocarcinoma growth was retarded by the oral administration of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabinol (CBD). Mice treated for 20 consecutive days with THC and CBD had reduced primary tumor size.”

In 1998, a research team at Madrid’s Complutense University Led by Dr. Manuel Guzman discovered that THC can selectively induce programmed cell death in brain tumor cells without negatively impacting surrounding healthy cells. They reported in the March 2002 issue of “Nature Medicine” they had destroyed incurable brain cancer tumors in rats by injecting them with THC. And in 2007 even Harvard Researchers found that compounds in cannabis cut the growth of lung cancer. There is also an organization called The SETH Group that showed compounds in cannabis can stop the growth of human glioblastoma multiforma (GBM) brain cancer cells. The SETH Group says “No chemotherapy can match this nontoxic anti-cancer action.” Even last year in 2012 a pair of scientists at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco found THC stops metastasis in many kinds of aggressive cancer.

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