Be afraid, be very afraid

Here is a scary headline in today’s Times.  “Carbon Dioxide Levels in Atmosphere Reach 4-Million-Year High and Continue to Climb.”

The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now is 50 percent higher than in the preindustrial age.  In the 19th century we began to burn coal, gas, and oil, and we haven’t stopped since.

Here is another scary thing.  I would have thought this would rate a top-of-the-fold story with a banner headline.  Instead it is at the bottom of page nine.   

The good thing is you probably read about this in your Twitter feed or from your Facebook friends.  Surely Fox and MSNBC covered it.