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hatrack

(59,583 posts) Sat Oct 16, 2021, 09:49 AM Oct 2021

September 2021 Atmospheric CO2: 413.30 ppm; September 2020 411.52 ppm; September 2019 410.18 ppm

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/data.html

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September 2021 Atmospheric CO2: 413.30 ppm; September 2020 411.52 ppm; September 2019 410.18 ppm (Original Post) hatrack Oct 2021 OP

I still can't believe it didn't go down in 2020 jimfields33 Oct 2021 #1

The rate of increase slowed, but that was about all . . hatrack Oct 2021 #2

That's why this is going to be an impossible task. jimfields33 Oct 2021 #3

GAME OVER. Moostache Oct 2021 #4

jimfields33

(15,759 posts)

1. I still can't believe it didn't go down in 2020

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Sat Oct 16, 2021, 09:56 AM

Oct 2021

If having the entire world shut down doesn’t combat these numbers, what can. That is really disappointing that shutting down the entire world didn’t even move the needle down but actually made it increase? WTF!

hatrack

(59,583 posts)

2. The rate of increase slowed, but that was about all . .

Reply to jimfields33 (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 16, 2021, 10:18 AM

Oct 2021

And since each ppm represents 2.13 billion tons of carbon, even during COVID we managed to bump up atmospheric content by about 2.5 billion tons.

jimfields33

(15,759 posts)

3. That's why this is going to be an impossible task.

Reply to hatrack (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 16, 2021, 11:36 AM

Oct 2021

Unfortunately slowing it down might be the best we can do.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)

4. GAME OVER.

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Sat Oct 16, 2021, 12:49 PM

Oct 2021

Even a global pandemic and enormous economic crisis can't slow it down...the end will come within the lives of people already born...

Humanity has written its own demise.

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