> Would people die of CO2 asphyxiation long before glaciers melt? Remember 1000 ppm is ASHRAE and OSHA limit?

Would people die of CO2 asphyxiation long before glaciers melt? Remember 1000 ppm is ASHRAE and OSHA limit?

Posted at: 2015-03-12 
Not a chance, and here's why!

CO2 has no measurable effect on the climate!. If anyone watched the recent series presented by Professor Brian Cox on the Solar system, and you knew anything about astronomy, you would see that the weather on Earth is affected by gravity, in exactly the same way as Io, a moon of Jupiter, is affected. Io is a solid lump of rock the same size as our moon, that due to gravitational forces, liquefies and causes volcanoes. The same applies to one of the moons of Saturn, the name of which I missed. EXACTLY the same forces that are causing the increased volcanic and earthquake activity here on Earth in the past 20 or so years due to the line up of the major planets and the Sun.

The OSHA limit for CO2 is 5 pptv, not 1 pptv. http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp....

5 pptv CO2 is also the standard for ASHRAE. Typical indoor concentrations for office buildings is 1.0 to 1.2 pptv CO2. This is considered acceptable. https://www.ashrae.org/File%20Library/do...

People dying of CO2 asphyxiation already happens, but it is not a common occurrence. http://www.cevl.msu.edu/~long/nyos.htm

Extrapolating the current rate of CO2 increase of 1.54 ppmv/year, http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadsst2...

it would take 39 decades to get to 1 pptv. As for when the glaciers will melt, they already are. http://skepticalscience.com/himalayan-gl...

That and the thermal expansion coefficient (0.001) of water http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_%28da...

is why sea level is rising at a rate of 1 foot per century. http://ibis.grdl.noaa.gov/SAT/SeaLevelRi...

Generally, this has been going on since the end of the Little Ice Age. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_acros...

However, not all glaciers have been melting, and some have been growing. http://iceagenow.com/Alaskan_Glaciers_Ad...

Unless the warming resumes, [2] and starts warming in the places that have cooled during the recent global warming, [1] Many of the glaciers will never melt away, and the CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere will equilibrate with the rate of production, and the new ocean temperature. [3]

The 1000ppm is a comfort limit, not a IDLH limit which is 40000. At 1000, some people may feel discomfort from poor indoor air, but most people can work well at that level.

Don't be daft. By the time there was enough C02 to smother you the weight of the atmosphere would crush you. Feel better now?