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Related: About this forumWow. Carbon dioxide concentrations measured at Mauna Loa on April 3 were 421.21 ppm.
Accessed April 8: Recent Daily Average Mauna Loa CO2
April 07: 418.46 ppm
April 06: 418.64 ppm
April 05: 418.71 ppm
April 04: Unavailable
April 03: 421.21 ppm
I never saw a number like that before there, but I will for sure see many more such numbers in the future.
Heckuva job humanity, heckuvajob.
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Wow. Carbon dioxide concentrations measured at Mauna Loa on April 3 were 421.21 ppm. (Original Post)
NNadir
Apr 2021
OP
When oh when will we ever realize we humans are destroying our only planet? Utterly irresponsible!
George McGovern
Apr 2021
#3
Look at how the Covid pandemic and the related shutdowns took a bite out of that rate
True Dough
Apr 2021
#4
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)1. We're killin it!
eppur_se_muova
(36,246 posts)6. And us. nt
LT Barclay
(2,594 posts)2. We are so screwed.
Even if climate change wasn't an issue, we are destroying the planet in so many other ways.
There is a video on weather.com right now describing a swath of tree deaths from Maine to Florida from salt water incursion.
George McGovern
(5,420 posts)3. When oh when will we ever realize we humans are destroying our only planet? Utterly irresponsible!
True Dough
(17,246 posts)4. Look at how the Covid pandemic and the related shutdowns took a bite out of that rate
Not a HUGE bite, but a nibble. Didn't last long though.
caraher
(6,278 posts)5. Not even much of a nibble
The dip you see isn't COVID so much as the vegetation of the northern hemisphere making their regular seasonal withdrawal of carbon from the atmosphere. That's clearer if you look at basically the same graph extended back over last few years; there's maybe a little dip in the running average (black curve) but much smaller than you might guess from the single year's worth of data: