April 2019 Represents the 2nd Worst April Ever For Monthly Increases in CO2 Recorded at Mauna Loa.
Since 1958, year to year increases in the average CO2 concentrations for each month of the year have been recorded at the Mauna Loa carbon dioxide observatory.
Below is the data just published for April of 2019, comparing it to April 2018.
Recent Monthly Average Mauna Loa CO2
April 2019: 413.32 ppm
April 2018: 410.24 ppm
Last updated: May 6, 2019
The increase reported here, 3.06 ppm over April of 2018 represents the second worst April ever recorded going back to 1958. The worst April ever occurred in 2016, when the value was 4.16 ppm over April of 2015, which was, by the way, the worst increase recorded for any month over the same month of the previous year going back to 1958. (June, 2016 was the only other such value to exceed 4.00 ppm, at 4.01 ppm.)
As of this writing, 711 such data points have been recorded. April 2019 is the 22nd worst such data point reported among all months among 711 such data points. This places it in roughly the 97th percentile for worst ever.
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If you feel as if you've been hearing all about "Battery. Fuel Cell. Wind Turbine. Solar Cell and all that," year after year, decade after decade, and as a result are just a tiny bit demoralized in recognizing that for all that rhetoric things are getting worse, not better, you're not alone.
What many people think is environmentalism, isn't.
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