...the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory.
I've been monitoring that data for many years, downloading it, and performing calculations with it.
The graphics, relatively simple for even a 7th grader to read, on the "growth rate" page demonstrates that that the 3.36 ppm increase over 2022 is the largest ever observed.
Until 2024, 2023 was the worst increase ever recorded, but as I'm monitoring the weekly data for 2024, it's immediately clear that 2024 will blow even 2023 away.
But let's not distract from happy talk. Our critics of the nuclear industry love to prance around on how their attacks on the industry have managed to arrest its growth and they brag how in the USA they managed to tear up vast stretches of virgin land to make their expensive useless solar fantasies make more energy than clean compact nuclear energy, albeit in an unreliable fashion requiring backup by fossil fuels. What is interesting about their cheering is of course they are spectacularly uninterested and unconcerned with attacking fossil fuels.
The data in the planetary atmosphere cannot be changed by wishful thinking.
As a professional analytical chemist, I am very impressed with the scrupulous analytical methods the observatory uses to measure the failure of reactionary fantasies to make a dent in this disaster before us. Since I joined DU in 2002, the concentration of carbon dioxide has gone up around 50 ppm.
There are people here who whine that nuclear energy is "too expensive." This same set of people are disinterested in the question of whether extreme weather driven by extreme global heating is "too expensive."
Excuse me if I'm a little jaded about cheering for oblivious rhetoric that is clearly disconnected from reality.
It's intellectual homunulus stuff, pretending everything is going great.
We fucked the future with Trumpian scale dishonesty.
History will not forgive us nor should it.
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