Speaking of being in it for the money and the perks, there’s this.
Just the Gold
Michael Tobis
Michael Tobis, editor-in-chief of Planet3.0 and site cofounder, has always been interested in the interface between science and public policy. He holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences where he developed a 3-D ocean model on a custom computing platform. He has been involved in sustainability conversations on the internet since 1992, has been a web software developer since 2000, and has been posting sustainability articles on the web since 2007.
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Here is my preliminary number:315 ppmvCO2 in the atmosphere. This is about the concentration in the 1950s when Dr. Keeling first began his Mauna Loa measurements. That was the first time that the Swiss glaciologists began to notice definite mass wasting in the Alps. Not much. Just some. But basically no countervaling advances.It has to be made a still smaller value to offset the higher concentrations of methane and whatnot today (and in the future) as compared to the 1950s. I don’t know how much less, it is enough that the point is made.And yes, I do know that the CO2 concentration is currently about 385 ppmv…