Posted on 01/21/2025 2:36:51 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Earth has broken another greenhouse gas emissions record: The levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere above Hawaii made an unprecedent jump in 2024, according to a new analysis by the Met Office, the United Kingdom’s national climate and weather service.
Between 2023 and 2024, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose by 3.58 parts per million (ppm), to reach a total of 427 ppm—the largest increase between calendar years, as measured by Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory, since records began 67 years ago.
Scientists say that a “safe” concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide is 350 ppm.......
Scientists suggest the rise is the result of a year filled with major wildfires, record-breaking fossil fuel emissions and ongoing deforestation. Wildfires alone released billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere—a study published in October found that carbon emissions from forest fires increased by 60 percent globally between 2001 and 2023. An El Niño event was also in progress for part of the year, bringing warmer and drier weather to an already warming planet.
These trends are not compatible with any of the pathways set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit), the team writes in Carbon Brief. In fact, 2024 was the first calendar year warm enough to cross that threshold. Though a single year above that marker does not mean the world breached the Paris Agreement, many top climate scientists predict temperatures will rise to at least 2.5 degrees Celsius (4.5 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.
The Met Office analysis also forecasts a further rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations for 2025. “You could regard [these findings] as another nail in the coffin of 1.5C,” says Betts to New Scientist. “That’s now vanishingly unlikely.”
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
Since Trump's "Drill baby drill", and the left is in all out attack on fossil fuels.
Yeah, I was going to mention the volcanoes have a serious impact on their study.
Must have caused the blizzard in Houston.
but it’s still .04% of the atmosphere ,LOL
Not only volcanoes, but land fires. Obviously Hawaii needs to be fined by the EPA billions of dollars for those emissions.
Just a coincidence, I’m sure.
Wild fires?
Volcanos?
Plant food
The trees in the Amazon rain forest send their thanks...
My plants luv some CO2.
I thought I read somewhere recently that China was bringing dozens of new coal power plants online each year. I’m guessing those emissions would drift over Hawaii on their way around the world. CO2 was much higher in our atmosphere in different eras and the world survived just fine, so I’m not particularly concerned even if the data isn’t skewed by area volcanoes; but if any concern is to be raised, it should be aimed at China and India - not the USA.
- Control the rotational speed of the earth
- Set the temperature of the planet
- Adjust the size of The Ozone Hole
- Set the levels of the oceans
- Set the orbit around the sun
- Limit the amount of CO2 above Hawaii
Bill Gates says cutting down ALL the trees is the way to reduce Carbon Dioxide 🤡
Why would you put an atmospheric research center on the north flank of an active volcano?
could be results of that gasbag mazie hirono...
“Scientists say...”
“Scientists suggest...?
Same ones that warned of an upcoming ice age?
Same ones whose models have NEVER proved successful at predictions?
Same ones who’d be stumped at explaining why there were periods in our past where the ave temp exceed their “doomsday” temperatures?
Same ones who altered temperature data to demonstrate the oft used phrase, “Never let bad data ruin a good dissertation.”?
Silly me, of course, those weren’t the same ones.
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