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Related: About this forumRelentless: Atmospheric CO2 Levels Tracking For 440 PPM By 2030; Growth Rate Increasing
?itok=yVPf_N7LThe primary driver of global warming, disruptive climate changes and ocean acidification is the ever-increasing amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere.
Despite decades of global efforts towards climate policies, clean energy and efficiency, CO2 levels continue to rise and are actually accelerating upwards. For those of us hoping for signs of climate progress, this most critical and basic climate data is bitter news indeed. It shows humanity racing ever more rapidly into a full-blown crisis for both our climate and our oceans.
That's the story told by the newest CO2 data released by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Let's take a look....
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My first chart, on the far right, (Ed. - Above) shows NOAA's CO2 data thru 2016. Each vertical bar shows how much the level of CO2 in the atmosphere increased that year. You can see at a glance how the annual changes keep getting larger. Indeed, the last two years (dark orange) saw CO2 rise by three parts-per-million (3 ppm) for the first time ever recorded.
And the relentless upwards march of CO2 is even more clear in the ten-year averages. My second chart shows these ten-year average increases as yellow columns. Up, up, up.
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http://www.nationalobserver.com/2017/04/10/opinion/atmospheric-co2-levels-accelerate-upwards-smashing-records
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Relentless: Atmospheric CO2 Levels Tracking For 440 PPM By 2030; Growth Rate Increasing (Original Post)
hatrack
Apr 2017
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NNadir
(33,523 posts)1. Don't worry, be happy.
By 2030, we'll be producing one trillion percent of all of our energy needs on a million solar roofs, seven billion of us driving around in our Tesla electric cars to view our personal wind farms and ethanol fields.
Carbon dioxide will be so intimidated by this huge change in our habits it will jump out of the atmosphere and get out of the way so we can drive in our wind powered electric cars to our wind powered ski lifts.
I've heard that so many times, it must be true.
Some people are so negative.
NickB79
(19,246 posts)2. Carbon sinks are saturating, and in some cases emitting carbon instead
Positive feedback loops like permafrost thaw and forest fires are now self a perpetuating loop out of our control.
We've lost the war on climate change.