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Every meeting room in our office building has a little meter in it which rotates through displaying three different measurements: temperature, relative humidity and CO2 ppm. Most of my colleagues are surprised when I point this out to them.

The floors of our office that I sit in has two sizes of meeting rooms: one for eight/nine people and one for three people. Free meeting rooms are scarce during regular hours, so sometimes we cram in to three-person room.

It's fun watching the CO2 measurement climb from 800 to 1400. Supposedly 400 ppm is outdoors, 800 ppm is indoors and anything higher is a little unusual. I have fun pointing out the reason why we are all feeling sleepy and docile towards the end of a meeting is because of the CO2!

See also: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/health/conference-room-ai...



I think by 2050 it might be 800+ outdoors

That’s what scares me


The trajectory the Keeling Curve (+3ppm/year) is on, the dumbing down of (human) cognitive abilities seems to be challenging climate change sooner than I thought on what is the more immediate problem to civilization.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeling_Curve


Soon the wealthy will have C02 scrubbers in their homes and cars, and hoi polloi will have to live in a cognitive stupor.


In 2050, solving global warming will become impossible, because whenever you arrange a meeting about it, all participants will die.




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