Where is COVID in the Mauna Loa data?
Shouldn't there be a noticeable dip or plateau in that data due to COVID? It was the largest decrease in worldwide energy usage in my lifetime for over a year.
Factories were shut down.
People were staying home
Airline traffic was reduced
Office building weren't being used
etc.
You can see it in total usage of Natural Gas in the US going from 2019 to present.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/ng_cons_sum_dcu_nus_a.htm
Wouldn't that support the assumption that CO2 is being significantly added from other sources beside burring FF?
My guess is it's coming from thawing Artic regions releasing carbon. And the oceans and the Artic isn't getting cooler - they are getting warmer and not sure what's going to change that.
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