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jameshartyesterday at 5:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

Sure. It just draws attention to the fact that a throwaway piece of advice for checking calibration of a CO2 sensor is ‘it should read 400-450ppm outside’ when a few short decades ago that advice would have been ‘it should read 300-350ppm outside’.

It’s like if someone said ‘you can check if your chatbot’s news feed is complete and up to date by asking it for ‘recent mass shootings’. There should be two or three in the past seven days’. It’s true and a valid methodology but holy crap does it say something dark about where we are.


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youarenaive343yesterday at 11:04 PM

450 ppm is fine. It can go a lot higher and the world will only benefit from the increased plant growth. You do want faster plant growth to compensate for ongoing desertification, right?

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colechristensenyesterday at 8:47 PM

Calm down. "We're doomed!" performative moralizing does not need to be attached to every possible conversation.

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