Posted on 11/30/2022 10:33:25 PM PST by Olog-hai
The eruption of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa volcano has temporarily knocked off power to the world’s premier station that measures heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but officials Wednesday say it won’t be a problem.
There are hundreds of other carbon dioxide monitoring sites across the globe. The federal government is looking for a temporary alternate site on the Hawaiian island and is contemplating flying a generator to the Mauna Loa observatory to get its power back so it can take measurements again, said officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Monitoring Lab in Colorado that operates the station.
The Hawaiian station goes back to 1958 and is the main site for the famous Keeling Curve that shows rising carbon dioxide levels from burning of coal, oil and natural gas that tracks with rising temperatures. Levels of carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa have increased 33% since 1958. *
The station at 11,300 feet high (3,444 meters), has a 131-foot (40-meter) tower that collects air to measure levels of carbon dioxide, radiation and other materials. Even though the flow of lava isn’t near the station it cut off power lines further down the mountain, officials said. …
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Carbon explosion knocks carbon monitor off line.
Irony.
Never mind the carbon they’ve been measuring that’s been coming from the mountain at a constant rate even though they don’t admit it.
Clever volcano.
How conveeeeninet.
Mauna Loa says, “Hold muh beer and watch this.”
Ironic that a volcano knocks out its own CO2 emissions monitoring.
Out of credits.
Volcano is smarter than most western humans.
Just the headline is so hilarious. “We have a station carefully monitoring the delicate levels of CO2 from this giant volcano”.
And the volcano flattens it.
Why can I not stop laughing?
Madam Pele says, “I no like da monitoring stuffs.”
It’s funny how no one ever seems to mention that for all of the ML Observatory’s premier CO2 atmospheric monitoring capacities, that it is located not 40 miles from one of the greatest natural sources of CO2 emissions on the planet; the Kilauea volcano. Whether it is in a state of eruption or not Kilauea continually leaks massive amounts of CO2 into the Hawaiian atmosphere. Of course, since Kilauea is located thousands of feet lower than the MLO facility and is usually downwind, it couldn’t possibly be a factor. Right?
Cumulative with the emissions coming from Mauna Loa itself, certainly.
Maybe they will try to make the volcano illegal, because it’s spouting carbon. /S
Wow, equipment that can distinguish the source of the CO2 it collects. That’s pretty sophisticated technology.
Clever volcano.
How conveeeeninet.
related story: nasa canned co2 measuring satellite because it's 'too expensive'
unrelated story: ukes get another $500M
The Hawaiian station goes back to 1958 and is the main site for the famous Keeling Curve that shows rising carbon dioxide levels from burning of coal, oil and natural gas that tracks with rising temperatures. Levels of carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa have increased 33% since 1958. *>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!
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Or take a chill pill:
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The rise in carbon dioxide over the end of the ice age was significant, from about 180 carbon dioxide molecules for every million in the atmosphere to 260, a measurement called parts per million or ppm, according to study author Jeremy Shakun.
THE BIG MELT
This increase took place over about 7,000 years, Shakun told a telephone news briefing. By contrast, the current level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is 392 ppm, a rise of about 100 ppm in the last century or two, he said.
“In this century, we’re probably going to be going up about 100 (ppm) more,” Shakun said, but added that Earth probably won’t feel the total impact from this carbon dioxide rise for centuries.
“The system has a lot of inertia to it,” he said. “To warm up the oceans takes quite a while, and we’ve also got ice sheets and you can’t melt an ice sheet in 100 years.”
But while carbon dioxide pushed temperatures up to accelerate the ice age’s end, that was not the initial cause. Instead, the big melt was first prompted by a periodic wobble in the Earth’s axis, the scientists said.
At some points in the wobble, the Northern Hemisphere leans slightly closer to the sun and this occurred at the beginning of the end of the Pleistocene, when ice sheets covered much of what is now North America and Europe.
That slight sun-ward tilt melted those northern ice sheets within a few hundred years, pushing global sea levels up by about 33 feet, or by more than the total melting of the ice covering Greenland now would do, said co-author Peter Clark of Oregon State University.
Greenland’s ice sheet covers most of the island, over 656,000 square miles (1.7 million square kilometers), three times the size of Texas. Summer melt of this ice sheet increased by 30 percent from 1979 through 2006, and reached a new record in 2007, according to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado.
Because ice sheets are made of compacted snow, they produce fresh water when they melt, and the gush of fresh water into the salty North Atlantic altered ocean chemistry enough to shut down the Atlantic Merdional Overturning Circulation, sometimes called the conveyor belt, which typically sends heat from the tropics northward, moderating northern Europe’s climate.
When the conveyor belt slowed or stopped, cool temperatures stayed in the north and warmth stayed in the south, letting the Antarctic get warmer. That warming trend may also have shifted the winds and melted sea ice, drawing carbon dioxide out of the deep ocean, where quantities of it are stored, Shakun said.
Editing by Philip Barbara
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-carbon-iceage-idUSBRE8330ZE20120404
This location has been the most cited source for CO2 measurements for 60 years.
I have read several explanations for its location - directly above a volcano - and also for the claims that it measures ONLY pristine Pacific air that has traveled thousands of miles over the ocean with no exposure to CO2 pollution.
I am not a scientist and cannot disprove the claims, but the location is so absurd, and the scientific optics are so contrary to common sense, I cannot believe this location is still the gold standard for CO2 measurements.
More recent studies have indicated that when atmospheric CO2 rises, plant life grows faster and larger, which results in greater carbon sequestration. Climate morons need to look up the word “homeostasis”.
CC
Yes, but it is so much more important to determine if this volcano has been wearing its Covid mask. Just how many other volcanoes have been affected, infected, reflected, and / or rejected by this completely irresponsible, selfish volcano that does not have the sense to not knock over the most important monitoring device in the history of monitoring devices.
Come on, man...
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