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Thanksgiving is upon us - one of the most underappreciated and yet important holidays of the year. This day stands as the beginning of the home stretch to any year, as well as the beginning of the holiday season. More importantly, Thanksgiving symbolizes a time when we take a break from our hectic lives to give thanks for our family, our friends, and the many gifts that God has provided us throughout the year. [ 130 more words ]

Happy Thanksgiving! From all of us at TangibleGreen to all of you Thanksgiving is upon us – one of the most underappreciated and yet important holidays of the year. This day stands as the beginning of the home stretch to any year, as well as the beginning o…

In yet another sign that human activity is having a significant impact on all aspects of the environment on this earth - the United Nations World Meterological Organization this morning reported in its annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) are at levels not seen for "millions of years" on our planet.

The Bulletin listed a number of sobering statistics:
- carbon dioxide levels are now at 403.3ppm (parts per million) after reaching the 400ppm level in 2015 - for the first time in 3 to 5 million years.
- human CO2 emissions from sources such as coal, oil, cement and deforestation reached record levels in 2016.
- the rise in CO2 caused by humans is happening 100 times faster than it did "when the world was emerging from the last ice age," a rate of change never seen on earth before.
- the last time CO2 levels were this high ice sheets near both the north (Greenland) and south (Antartica) melted to such a large extent they caused sea levels to rise 10 to 20 meters higher than today.
- concentrations of the other two main greenhouse gases, methane and nitrous oxide, also grew to record concentrations in 2016, although at a slower pace than CO2.

We continue to push our environment away from levels of different elements in which we and other earthly inhabitants have evolved and thrived, and toward levels that will eventually be unsustainable for life as it currently exists on earth. We need to start reversing these trends now, or else we will pass a "point of no return." ... and it looks like that point is coming sooner, rather than later.

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Carbon dioxide levels reach 1 million-year record GENEVA — The amount of carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere grew at a record rate in 2016 to a level not seen for millions of years, potentially fuelling a 20-meter rise in sea levels and…