Amount of warming triggering carbon dioxide in air hits new peak, growing at near-record fast rate

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By SETH BORENSTEIN

The cause of global warming is showing no signs of slowing as heat-trapping carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere increased to record highs in its annual Spring peak, jumping at one of the fastest rates on record, officials announced Monday.

Carbon dioxide levels in the air are now the highest they’ve been in more than 4 million years because of the burning of oil coal and gas. The last time the air had similar amounts was during a less hospitable hothouse Earth before human civilization took root, scientists said.

The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration announced that the carbon dioxide level measured in May in Hawaii averaged 424 parts per million. That’s 3 parts per million more than last year’s May average and 51% higher than pre-industrial levels of 280 ppm. It is one of the largest annual May-to-May increases in carbon dioxide levels on record, behind only 2016 and 2019, which had jumps of 3.7 and 3.4 parts per million.

“To me as an atmospheric scientist, that trend is very concerning,” said NOAA greenhouse gas monitoring group leader Arlyn Andrews. “Not only is CO2 continuing to increase despite efforts to start reducing emissions, but it’s increasing faster than it was 10 or 20 years ago.”




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[cilla4progress]

1. K&r

Just look up

[BOSSHOG]

2. The greed of billionaires and the republicans they own

[bronxiteforever]

3. Not good.

[Traildogbob]

4. We have

Been under Air Quality Alert in Western North Carolina for 3 days now.😷 It may be getting to a masking situation before long. This could thin out anti maskers (GQP) for the good of the world. If poison air has a bright side.

[roamer65]

5. 523 ppm CO2e last year.

Don’t forget, we are loading the atmosphere with other more potent GHGs as well.

https://gml.noaa.gov/aggi/#:~:text=In%20terms%20of%20CO2,amount%20and%20rate%20of%20increase.

We are cookin with GAS now, baby.

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[markodochartaigh]

6. On Brad Friedman's show tonight

a lady called in seeming to say that the government was altering the climate (her phone connection was bad). Brad said that it could be considered that government policies which don't reign in fossil fuels might be "government altering the climate". I thought that that was a good way of turning some climate change deniers arguments on their heads.

[moniss]

7. I had a positive

thought (yes I know) the other day about a simple change that we could make in our country that would improve several situations at once. Let's end "drive-through" anything (use curb service for the disabled). That change would eliminate plenty of time spent idling cars. There would be the side benefit of people getting in more walking. I would also take the existing drive through lanes at the fast food restaurants and make them people-centric/nature/cultural friendly by city-scaping them with homegrown art and plants etc.

What's that you say? Why yes as a matter of fact I did spend all day working in the hot sun. But I think it's a nice sort of delirious vision. We used to get along fine without everything having a drive-through.

[calimary]

12. Good ideas!

We ALL need to be thinking creatively to start trying to get a handle on a problem as dreadfully serious as this one.

[BigmanPigman]

8. Climate Change is here and now, not "the future".

"War, natural disasters left record 71 million people internally displaced in 2022, report says"

"A new report says the war in Ukraine helped push the number of people left internally displaced across the world last year to a record high of 71.1 million."

"The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre cited the La Nina weather phenomenon, which continued for a third consecutive year in 2022, as a major factor in disaster displacements. It contributed to record levels of flood displacement in Pakistan, Nigeria and Brazil and to the worst drought on record in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia, the report said."

"There was a “perfect storm” of conflict and natural disasters in 2022, leading to “displacement on a scale never seen before,” said Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council."

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/war-natural-disasters-left-record-71-million-people-99246770

[RussBLib]

9. Not really a surprise

It seems we have not done nearly enough as a species, as a "global community" or as a nation. Getting the whole world to cooperate and to seriously cut their output is proving very difficult, if not impossible.

The most we can hope for in the short term is a levelling off of the carbon dioxide readings. I'm afraid it's going to take some revolutionary sea change in attitudes and behaviors that we cannot currently muster to get those levels to drop.

[BadgerKid]

10. Companies could rethink manatory daily commutes

[calimary]

11. Scary any way you look at it.