...here the facts, as represented by something called "numbers" what the concentrations of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide are and how fast they are rising, by an unprecedented amount in 2024, which, if one can read, is um, NOW.
For example, I have posted several times the numbers recorded at the Mauna Loa Carbon Dioxide observatory, something I do fairly regularly.
Update on the Disastrous 2024 CO2 Data Recorded at Mauna Loa
There have been 2529 weekly data points such as that immediately above, recorded at the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory which are available on the data pages of the website which compare the value with the same week of the previous year. The reading above, for week 28 of 2024, shows an increase of 4.50 ppm over week 28 pf the previous year, 2023. Among all such increases for weekly data, again, 2529 of them, compared with the same week of the previous year, this is the 11th highest ever recorded. It is one of only 29 readings to exceed an increase of 4.00 ppm, eight of which took place in the current year, four of which exceed increases of 5.00 ppm, three of which were in 2024. Of the top 50 week to week/year to year comparators 16 have taken place in the last 5 years of which 10 occurred in 2024, 39 in the last 10 years, and 45 in this century. Of the five readings from the 20th century, four occurred in 1998, when huge stretches of the Malaysian and Indonesian rainforests caught fire when slash and burn fires went out of control. These fires were set deliberately, designed to add palm oil plantations to satisfy the demand for "renewable" biodiesel for German cars and trucks as part of their "renewable energy portfolio." The only other reading from the 20th century to appear in the top 50 occurred in the week beginning August 21, 1988, which was 3.91 ppm higher than the same week of the previous year. For about ten years, until July of 1998, it was the highest reading ever recorded. It is now the 34th highest.
I feel entirely confident that in contrast to credulous rubes spouting happy talk about hydrogen and batteries and so called "renewable energy," the numbers tell a story - at least to anyone who can think and read - about how realistic this happy talk actually is.
The link in that post to the Mauna Loa CO
2 Observatory is available to anyone who gives a shit, and since I give a shit, I have been monitoring for decades. Even credulous rubes can access it. The
data pages are still freely available and assuming that one has not joined Greenpeace and knows how to do simple mathematical operations at a 7th grade level, one can find out how rapidly the deterioration of the atmosphere is accelerating.
Of the top 20 highest increases in CO2 over ten years previous measured at Mauna, all but two took place in 2024. The two that didn't occurred in 2021. So much for the "energy transition" all of our credulous cheerleaders here hype.
Let me guess, "new facts" invalidate this data, no?
It seems likely that the Observatory will be shut with the NOAA, under the nutcases about to take positions in the Government, so it is likely that credulous rubes will be in the happy situation (for them, not humanity) of continuing to issue disingenuous tripe about how everything is just peachy keen because of um, let me see, oh I know, "new facts."
The spirit of Kelly Ann Conway is alive and well here at DU, this in the time of the celebration of the lie.
The fucking planet's on fire, despite all the happy hydrogen/battery talk that satisfies those people who have never, clearly, taken even a high school level course involving the laws of thermodynamics.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
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