The Climate Change Deniers Have Won - Guardian/Observer

[Benton D Struckcheon]

29. Last six days of readings at Mauna Loa

400.13
401.12
401.18
401.28
400.87
400.73

It was actually trending at about a .3% year over year change before the last two weeks, and then POW! Shot up like a rocket, relatively speaking.
What has to be understood is that this is mildly exponential, meaning that each little increase brings a little more warming than the last, even if the percent change is the same.
On the hopeful side, the US has decreased the amount of CO2 its pumping into the atmosphere by a very large amount over the past decade.
On the not-so-hopeful side, that trend stalled this year and reversed a bit, mostly because the effect of economic recovery overwhelmed the continuing progress being made on bringing in renewables.
I'm pretty sure it'll be very close but we'll make it to the other side with the planet still in a functioning state. Won't be by much though.