...included in previous posts along these lines.
Here goes:
There have been 2114 of these weekly data points collected comparing the levels with those of the previous year, with the July 2016 figure, 5.04 ppm being the worst ever observed.
Seventeen recorded data points exceeded 4.00 ppm. Ten of them occurred in 2016.
Of the 10 worst such data points recorded for week to week comparisons of previous years, six of the worst 10 have occurred in 2016.
Sixteen of the worst 30 have been recorded in the last 5 years, 19 of the worst 30 have been recorded in the last 10 years. Fourteen of the worst 30 occurred in 2016.
Twenty-two of the worst 30 occurred in the 21st century.
The average of all these data points recorded since 1975 is 1.76 ppm; the average for the 20th century was 1.54 ppm; for the 21st century, it is 2.09 ppm, for 2015 - the worst year ever recorded - it was 2.25 ppm. For 2016, the average is now 3.59 ppm. Over the last 4 weeks the average is 3.42 ppm.
Since Japan shut it's nuclear reactors to see if they're "safe" after Fukushima - and replaced the power with that generated in dangerous fossil fueled plants which kill people whenever they operate and not just in accident situations - the average increase is 2.34 ppm.
If any of this bothers you, don't worry, be happy.
Joe Romm is here to tell us that solar prices are dropping!!!!!
The fact that he's been saying the same damned thing for more than 25 years, since he was a babe in swaddling clothes sitting on the knee of the equally delusional Amory Lovins, doesn't count, just as the fact that no matter what the dropping!!!!! price of solar cells are, they remain a trivial source of energy, even more trivial than wind, the entire industry which cannot even match the growth of dangerous natural gas use also doesn't matter. Even if it's the greatest thing ever, the cheapest thing ever, cheaper than air, water or road salt, no one seems to be using it, at least on any scale that matters.
Here's what matters:
It's the thought that counts, not results.
As Joe Romm, tiresome fool, loves to point out, the means outweigh the end. Who gives a rat's ass if we surge up to 450 ppm in the next 15 years? Solar energy is grrrrrrreeeeeeaaaaaaat.
In any case, since 2015 was so bad, and 2016 is sure to be even worse, I can no longer make my favorite Joe Romm joke, which involved stating that when Joe Romm was running the EPA's climate office (1998), we had the highest surge in carbon dioxide ever recorded.
He no longer has any kind of official position beyond mumbling idiotic crap on his website for the faithful, and that, of course, is for the better, although, that said, we can see he - and is equally mindless pals - had their way, and the signature is written in the atmosphere.
Again, we will never again see a reading at Mauna Loa lower than 400 ppm.
Since we signed off on this delusional wishful thinking crap, we deserve what we are getting.
Have a nice day tomorrow.
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