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Mearcstapa 09/10/21 4:08:41 PM #1:	https://research.noaa.gov/article/ArtMID/587/ArticleID/2764/Coronavirus-response-barely-slows-rising-carbon-dioxide Atmospheric carbon dioxide measured at NOAAs Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory peaked for 2021 in May at a monthly average of 419 parts per million (ppm), the highest level since accurate measurements began 63 years ago, scientists from NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego announced today. Scripps scientist Charles David Keeling initiated on-site measurements of carbon dioxide, or CO2, at NOAAs weather station on Mauna Loa in 1958. NOAA began measurements in 1974, and the two research institutions have made complementary, independent observations ever since. This graph depicts the upward trajectory of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as measured at the Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory by NOAA and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The annual fluctuation is known as the Keeling Curve. Credit: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory In May, NOAA's measurements at the mountaintop observatory averaged 419.13 ppm. Scientists at Scripps calculated a monthly average of 418.92 ppm. The average in May 2020 was 417 ppm. Pieter Tans, a senior scientist with NOAAs Global Monitoring Laboratory, noted that CO2 is by far the most abundant human-caused greenhouse gas, and persists in the atmosphere and oceans for thousands of years after it is emitted. We are adding roughly 40 billion metric tons of CO2 pollution to the atmosphere per year, said Tans. That is a mountain of carbon that we dig up out of the Earth, burn, and release into the atmosphere as CO2 - year after year. If we want to avoid catastrophic climate change, the highest priority must be to reduce CO2 pollution to zero at the earliest possible date. CO2 pollution is generated by emissions from carbon-based fossil fuels used for transportation and electrical generation, by cement manufacturing, deforestation, agriculture, and many other practices. Along with other greenhouse gases, CO2 traps outgoing heat from the planets surface that would otherwise escape into space, causing the planets atmosphere to warm steadily. While the year-to-year increase of 1.8 ppm in the May CO2 peak was slightly less than previous years, CO2 measurements at Mauna Loa for the first five months of 2021 showed a 2.3 ppm increase over the same five months of 2020, close to the average annual increase from 2010 to 2019. There was no discernible signal in the data from the global economic disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic. *Blaze It* --- after years of waiting nothing came <cite>Mearcstapa posted [p:957923460] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote>https://research.noaa.gov/article/ArtMID/587/ArticleID/2764/Coronavirus-response-barely-slows-rising-carbon-dioxide <quote>Atmospheric carbon dioxide measured at NOAAs Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory peaked for 2021 in May at a monthly average of 419 parts per million (ppm), the highest level since accurate measurements began 63 years ago, scientists from NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego announced today. Scripps scientist Charles David Keeling initiated on-site measurements of carbon dioxide, or CO2, at NOAAs weather station on Mauna Loa in 1958. NOAA began measurements in 1974, and the two research institutions have made complementary, independent observations ever since. This graph depicts the upward trajectory of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as measured at the Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory by NOAA and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The annual fluctuation is known as the Keeling Curve. Credit: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory In May, NOAA's measurements at the mountaintop observatory averaged 419.13 ppm. Scientists at Scripps calculated a monthly average of 418.92 ppm. The average in May 2020 was 417 ppm. Pieter Tans, a senior scientist with NOAAs Global Monitoring Laboratory, noted that CO2 is by far the most abundant human-caused greenhouse gas, and persists in the atmosphere and oceans for thousands of years after it is emitted. We are adding roughly 40 billion metric tons of CO2 pollution to the atmosphere per year, said Tans. That is a mountain of carbon that we dig up out of the Earth, burn, and release into the atmosphere as CO2 - year after year. If we want to avoid catastrophic climate change, the highest priority must be to reduce CO2 pollution to zero at the earliest possible date. CO2 pollution is generated by emissions from carbon-based fossil fuels used for transportation and electrical generation, by cement manufacturing, deforestation, agriculture, and many other practices. Along with other greenhouse gases, CO2 traps outgoing heat from the planets surface that would otherwise escape into space, causing the planets atmosphere to warm steadily. While the year-to-year increase of 1.8 ppm in the May CO2 peak was slightly less than previous years, CO2 measurements at Mauna Loa for the first five months of 2021 showed a 2.3 ppm increase over the same five months of 2020, close to the average annual increase from 2010 to 2019. There was no discernible signal in the data from the global economic disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.</quote> Blaze It </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Mist_Turnips 09/10/21 4:10:19 PM #2:	We can do better --- "They say if you don't hide your belly button, lightning could take it away from you! What would happen if it did?" https://imgur.com/G74y2NJ <cite>Mist_Turnips posted [p:957923517] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote>We can do better</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Machete 09/10/21 4:10:53 PM #3:	--- I do not receive notifications, so using the @ feature will not do anything. I might see your post and respond though if I have already been in the topic. <cite>Machete posted [p:957923542] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote> --- I do not receive notifications, so using the @ feature will not do anything. I might see your post and respond though if I have already been in the topic.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
AngelsNAirwav3s 09/10/21 4:12:08 PM #4:	Mearcstapa posted... There was no discernible signal in the data from the global economic disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Dang, you would think with everyone staying home there would at least be some sort of blip? --- Hello world! <cite>AngelsNAirwav3s posted [p:957923588] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote>Mearcstapa posted... </cite> <quote>There was no discernible signal in the data from the global economic disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.</quote> Dang, you would think with everyone staying home there would at least be some sort of blip? </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Chicken 09/10/21 4:13:05 PM #5:	--- May contain bones https://youtu.be/jGbI0P4hh3o <cite>Chicken posted [p:957923616] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote> </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
thronedfire2 09/10/21 4:18:00 PM #6:	AngelsNAirwav3s posted... Dang, you would think with everyone staying home there would at least be some sort of blip? not really, with how much more stuff people started getting delivered to their houses --- I could see you, but I couldn't hear you You were holding your hat in the breeze Turning away from me In this moment you were stolen... <cite>thronedfire2 posted [p:957923754] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote>AngelsNAirwav3s posted... </cite> <quote>Dang, you would think with everyone staying home there would at least be some sort of blip?</quote> not really, with how much more stuff people started getting delivered to their houses </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Njolk 09/10/21 4:32:59 PM #7:	I mean that is a huge increase but to start the graph at 320 and make it look like it skyrocketed from 0 to 400 is a bit deceitful --- Suffering is expecting things to last forever <cite>Njolk posted [p:957924162] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote>I mean that is a huge increase but to start the graph at 320 and make it look like it skyrocketed from 0 to 400 is a bit deceitful </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Heartomaton 09/10/21 4:33:37 PM #9:	420 Blaze it. --- https://www.youtube.com/user/Heartomaton Heartomaton for President 2028. <cite>Heartomaton posted [p:957924187] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote><quote>420</quote> Blaze it. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius 09/10/21 4:36:08 PM #10:	Njolk posted... I mean that is a huge increase but to start the graph at 320 and make it look like it skyrocketed from 0 to 400 is a bit deceitful That's just how graphs are, especially the scaremongery kind. AngelsNAirwav3s posted... Dang, you would think with everyone staying home there would at least be some sort of blip? Eighteen months out of sixty years may not even make a blip. What happened in 1976 and 1999 though? <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:957924264] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote>Njolk posted... </cite> <quote>I mean that is a huge increase but to start the graph at 320 and make it look like it skyrocketed from 0 to 400 is a bit deceitful</quote>That's just how graphs are, especially the scaremongery kind. AngelsNAirwav3s posted... </cite> <quote>Dang, you would think with everyone staying home there would at least be some sort of blip?</quote>Eighteen months out of sixty years may not even make a blip. What happened in 1976 and 1999 though? </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Mearcstapa 09/10/21 4:42:32 PM #11:	Questionmarktarius posted... Eighteen months out of sixty years may not even make a blip. What happened in 1976 and 1999 though? Not sure about 1999. 76 could be a bounce-back in fuel consumption after the '73 oil crisis? --- after years of waiting nothing came <cite>Mearcstapa posted [p:957924485] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote>Questionmarktarius posted... </cite> <quote>Eighteen months out of sixty years may not even make a blip. What happened in 1976 and 1999 though?</quote> Not sure about 1999. 76 could be a bounce-back in fuel consumption after the '73 oil crisis? </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius 09/10/21 4:53:07 PM #12:	Mearcstapa posted... Not sure about 1999. The internet bubble, maybe? <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:957924832] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote>Mearcstapa posted... </cite> <quote>Not sure about 1999.</quote>The internet bubble, maybe? </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Omnislasher 09/10/21 4:58:22 PM #13:	Njolk posted... I mean that is a huge increase but to start the graph at 320 and make it look like it skyrocketed from 0 to 400 is a bit deceitful maybe they just thought you were smart enough to read a simple graph, and weren't trying to mislead at all. clearly a mistake on their part! it would make no sense whatsoever to start that x-axis at 0. Questionmarktarius posted... That's just how graphs are, especially the scaremongery kind. tell me how this is scaremongering <cite>Omnislasher posted [p:957924987] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote>Njolk posted... </cite> <quote>I mean that is a huge increase but to start the graph at 320 and make it look like it skyrocketed from 0 to 400 is a bit deceitful</quote>maybe they just thought you were smart enough to read a simple graph, and weren't trying to mislead at all. clearly a mistake on their part! it would make no sense whatsoever to start that x-axis at 0. Questionmarktarius posted... </cite> <quote>That's just how graphs are, especially the scaremongery kind.</quote>tell me how this is scaremongering </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
treewojima 09/10/21 4:59:16 PM #14:	clearly it's just Mauna Loa getting ready to come to life <cite>treewojima posted [p:957925010] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote>clearly it's just Mauna Loa getting ready to come to life </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Stewman_Magoo 09/10/21 5:00:05 PM #15:	Mist_Turnips posted... We can do better I admire the optimism but no we can't --- PSN Stewman_Magoo <cite>Stewman_Magoo posted [p:957925028] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote>Mist_Turnips posted... </cite> <quote>We can do better</quote> I admire the optimism but no we can't </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius 09/10/21 5:00:09 PM #16:	Omnislasher posted... tell me how this is scaremongering Cropped charts are always suspect. Especially so when the chart provider has a vested interest in how it's interpreted. <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:957925031] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote>Omnislasher posted... </cite> <quote>tell me how this is scaremongering</quote>Cropped charts are always suspect. Especially so when the chart provider has a vested interest in how it's interpreted. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Omnislasher 09/10/21 5:02:20 PM #17:	you're a joke <cite>Omnislasher posted [p:957925094] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote>you're a joke </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Omnislasher 09/10/21 5:05:54 PM #18:	"vested interest" a bad joke, i want to be clear. <cite>Omnislasher posted [p:957925195] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote>"vested interest" a bad joke, i want to be clear. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
NOM 09/10/21 5:07:55 PM #19:	Everything is tits up already. We're living on borrowed time so the best thing you can do as a person is don't be a jackass and make sure to not have any kids. Just enjoy the life you have before the weenie roast starts. --- I dream broken dreams I make them come true <cite>NOM posted [p:957925245] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote>Everything is tits up already. We're living on borrowed time so the best thing you can do as a person is don't be a jackass and make sure to not have any kids. Just enjoy the life you have before the weenie roast starts. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Omnislasher 09/10/21 5:11:44 PM #20:	NOM posted... Everything is tits up already. We're living on borrowed time so the best thing you can do as a person is don't be a jackass and make sure to not have any kids. Just enjoy the life you have before the weenie roast starts. i agree with you, but only because i don't have my head shoved up my own ass. others might accuse you of 'scaremongering'. <cite>Omnislasher posted [p:957925344] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote>NOM posted... </cite> <quote>Everything is tits up already. We're living on borrowed time so the best thing you can do as a person is don't be a jackass and make sure to not have any kids. Just enjoy the life you have before the weenie roast starts.</quote>i agree with you, but only because i don't have my head shoved up my own ass. others might accuse you of 'scaremongering'. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius 09/10/21 5:21:03 PM #21:	NOM posted... Everything is tits up already. We're living on borrowed time so the best thing you can do as a person is don't be a jackass and make sure to not have any kids. Double the fuck down on nuclear energy and plant fucktons of hemp, and the trend will reverse in a few decades. <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:957925602] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote>NOM posted... </cite> <quote>Everything is tits up already. We're living on borrowed time so the best thing you can do as a person is don't be a jackass and make sure to not have any kids.</quote>Double the fuck down on nuclear energy and plant fucktons of hemp, and the trend will reverse in a few decades. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
PaulieWalnuts 09/10/21 5:22:32 PM #22:	https://youtu.be/PUwmA3Q0_OE --- https://youtu.be/D7Ds8umjwcQ https://youtu.be/eI8JIzbtNLQ <cite>PaulieWalnuts posted [p:957925654] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote>https://youtu.be/PUwmA3Q0_OE</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Omnislasher 09/10/21 6:16:26 PM #23:	Questionmarktarius posted... Double the fuck down on nuclear energy and plant fucktons of hemp, and the trend will reverse in a few decades. the deepest and widest delusions for anyone not willfully ignorant, i recommend this paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353488669_Through_the_Eye_of_a_Needle_An_Eco-Heterodox_Perspective_on_the_Renewable_Energy_Transition <cite>Omnislasher posted [p:957927337] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote>Questionmarktarius posted... </cite> <quote>Double the fuck down on nuclear energy and plant fucktons of hemp, and the trend will reverse in a few decades.</quote>the deepest and widest delusions for anyone not willfully ignorant, i recommend this paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353488669_Through_the_Eye_of_a_Needle_An_Eco-Heterodox_Perspective_on_the_Renewable_Energy_Transition </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Questionmarktarius 09/10/21 8:00:02 PM #24:	Omnislasher posted... the deepest and widest delusions If we ceased all combustion, today, there'd still be a steady increase for about fourty years anyway. There needs to also be a way to suck CO2 out of the air, and hemp is great at that. It grows quickly, essentially everywhere, and sequesters that carbon into useful fiber. <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:957930325] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote>Omnislasher posted... </cite> <quote>the deepest and widest delusions</quote>If we ceased all combustion, today, there'd still be a steady increase for about fourty years anyway. There needs to also be a way to suck CO2 out of the air, and hemp is great at that. It grows quickly, essentially everywhere, and sequesters that carbon into useful fiber. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
bnui_ransder 09/10/21 8:02:14 PM #25:	Good thing its our mountain Mauna Loa, just think if it was Mana High-a ~~kill me~~ --- http://bnuiransder.tumblr.com/ So much A R T <cite>bnui_ransder posted [p:957930406] in Carbon dio... [t:79655109]...</cite> <quote>Good thing its our mountain Mauna Loa, just think if it was Mana High-a kill me </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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