We should give our age in ppm. No, hear me out. (I’m 97ppm, btw.)

One thing people don’t get about climate change is just how quickly the blanket of C02 is thickening because of our emissions.

Sure, there’s that Al Gore on his elevator stunt in the film “An Inconvenient Truth.”

And there’s this that shows we are thickening the blanket more and more quickly (because we are burning more and more fossil fuels).

But we need more.

You may have noticed the trend in Twitter bios to say “born at xxx ppm”.

Well, I found a site that automates this and my tweet about it on the @our_yesterdays account has gone “viral” (it’s all relative”)

Brilliant simple website that lets you find out the atmospheric CO2 (presumably at Mauna Loa) on the day you were born, tells you how much it has gone up since then, and the percentage.https://t.co/bvJRrFzZjP

— All Our Yesterdays (@our_yesterdays) June 4, 2022

A user called Chad made the simple and profound step to give his actual age in ppm

I’m nearly 100 ppm old?

Or another way, nearly a third of the CO2 in the atmosphere today didn’t even exist the day before I was born in 1971.

Clever account name. Like the planet from that Trek episode, we are so very screwed. If we had an atavachron, we’d screw that up, too. https://t.co/dFfI9e1Xtp

— Chad, no longer surprised (@Cruelshoe) June 4, 2022

Now, recently, James Murray of Business Green did this excellent tweet.

305ppm 407ppm 340ppm 399ppm pic.twitter.com/we18jHfmhO

— James Murray (@James_BG) June 3, 2022

Finally then, this tweet – we could give our ages in ppm amount of C02 added to the atmosphere since we were born.

There seems to be a bug though, with the agilq.com website, it stops last year. So while the start point is accurate, you will – for now – have to do your own maths. Here’s a site with today’s c02.

[https://www.co2.earth/daily-co2]

Therefore, I am 97ppm. I will be getting a telegram from the Queen next year, I reckon.