Der Kohlendioxidgehalt in der Atmosphäre steigt „schneller als je zuvor“ und übersteigt alles, was die Menschheit je erlebt hat, sagen Beamte.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/carbon-dioxide-levels-surging-faster-than-ever-noaa-scientists/
Der Kohlendioxidgehalt in der Atmosphäre steigt „schneller als je zuvor“ und übersteigt alles, was die Menschheit je erlebt hat, sagen Beamte.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/carbon-dioxide-levels-surging-faster-than-ever-noaa-scientists/
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We are so unbelievably fucked.
Our only hope at this stage is radical reduction in emissions, some miracle tech for emissions capture/storage and or very radical geotechnolgical altering of the amount if energy the planet receives.
Pumping reflective crap into the atmosphere, solar shade, mirrors, or somehow beaming excess energy into space.
Thats mostly miracle tech that is unlikely to be viable in the short to medium term, so in short…things gonna get real bad. :/
Oh wow, the consequences we’ve been aware would happen for 50+ years are happening? Crazy.
“there it is, again, that funny feeling….”
How is this possible if we should be taking steps to reduce it??
Who’s and why are increasing emissions here??
Thank India and China; while the rest of the world tries to save it, they are accelerating the damage. Also Taylor Swift
I for one welcome Venus 2.0
Science really failed on the messaging about the threats of climate change.
We don’t need to “save the planet”- the planet will continue in some form. We need to save ourselves.
And they could draw in the right wing xenophobes by emphasizing that warming climate = more migration.
Is this simply not legal to deteriorate the environment to the point of causing prejudice to future people?
Great. So I guess now every month and year will be the hottest on record.
stop politicizing climate change. suddenly it’s “woke” to care about the planet we live on
Remeber…you don’t get paid for saving the environment.
Capitalism works!
>One of the major drivers of the exceptional heat building within Earth’s atmosphere has reached levels beyond anything humans have ever experienced, officials announced on Thursday. Carbon dioxide, the gas that accounts for the majority of global warming caused by human activities, is accumulating “faster than ever,” scientists from NOAA, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of California San Diego found.
>”Over the past year, we’ve experienced the hottest year on record, the hottest ocean temperatures on record, and a seemingly endless string of heat waves, droughts, floods, wildfires and storms,” NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad said in a press release. “Now we are finding that atmospheric CO2 levels are increasing faster than ever.”
>Atmospheric carbon dioxide measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory peaked in May 2024 at a monthly average of 426.9 parts per million, establishing another high mark in the 66-year record of observations on the Hawaiian volcano
SUSAN COBB/NOAA RESEARCH
The researchers measured carbon dioxide, or CO2, levels at the Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory. They found that atmospheric levels of the gas hit a seasonal peak of just under 427 parts per million in May — an increase of 2.9 ppm since May 2023 and the fifth-largest annual growth in 50 years of data recording.
>It also made official that the past two years saw the largest jump in the May peak — when CO2 levels are at their highest in the Northern Hemisphere. John Miller, a NOAA carbon cycle scientist, said that the jump likely stems from the continuous rampant burning of fossil fuels as well as El Niño conditions making the planet’s ability to absorb CO2 more difficult.
>This graph shows the full record of monthly mean carbon dioxide measured at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii. The carbon dioxide data on Mauna Loa constitute the longest record of direct measurements of CO2 in the atmosphere.
NOAA GLOBAL MONITORING LABORATORY
The surge of carbon dioxide levels at the measuring station surpassed even the global average set last year, which was a record high of 419.3 ppm — 50% higher than it was before the Industrial Revolution. However, NOAA noted that their observations were taken at the observatory specifically, and do not “capture the changes of CO2 across the globe,” although global measurements have proven consistent without those at Mauna Loa.
>CO2 measurements “sending ominous signs”
In its news release, NOAA said the measurements are “sending ominous signs.”
“Not only is CO2 now at the highest level in millions of years, it is also rising faster than ever,” Ralph Keeling, director of Scripps’ CO2 program, said in the release. “Each year achieves a higher maximum due to fossil-fuel burning, which releases pollution in the form of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Fossil fuel pollution just keeps building up, much like trash in a landfill.”
>Carbon dioxide “acts like a blanket in the atmosphere,” NOAA explained — much like other greenhouse gases that amplify the sun’s heat toward Earth’s surface. And while carbon dioxide is essential in keeping global temperatures above freezing, having such high concentrations shoots temperatures beyond levels of comfort and safety.
That warming is fueling extreme weather events, and the consequences are aleady being felt, with deadly floods, heat waves and droughts devastating communities worldwide and agriculture seeing difficult shifts.
The news from NOAA comes a day after the European Union’s climate change service, Copernicus, announced that Earth has now hit 12 straight months of record-high temperatures, a trend with “no sign in sight of a change.”
>”We are living in unprecedented times. … This string of hottest months will be remembered as comparatively cold,” Carlo Buontempo, director of Copernicus, said.
This would be a great time for aliens to gift us some really powerful atmospheric manipulation tech.
But… I recycled my cans, how could this happen?
As long as we don’t bring down the big corporations nothing will change. Corporate greed is for now still ruling and running the world, and we’re the ones enabling them through complacency. Me as well. I don’t see a (realistic) solution.
I predict SRM relatively soon.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that Stratospheric aerosol injection “is the most-researched SRM method, with *high agreement* that it could limit warming to below 1.5 °C.” This technique would mimic a cooling phenomenon that occurs naturally by the eruption of volcanoes. Sulfates are the most commonly proposed aerosol, since there is a natural analogue with (and evidence from) volcanic eruptions. Alternative materials such as using photophoretic particles, titanium dioxide, and diamond have been proposed. Delivery by custom aircraft appears most feasible, with artillery and balloons sometimes discussed. The annual cost of delivering a sufficient amount of sulfur to counteract expected greenhouse warming is estimated at $5–10 billion US dollars. This technique could give much more than 3.7 W/m^(2) of globally averaged negative forcing, which is sufficient to entirely offset the warming caused by a doubling of carbon dioxide.
I was at a woek conference yesterday. We are in the merch promo world so nothing to do with climate change. But, I meet people I normally wouldn’t. Several of them were talking about climate change as though it wasn’t happening! Mental!
No one gives a shit. Everyone is too busy trying to buy a house or find a safe place to live. Put food on the table and pay taxes.
>”They found that atmospheric levels of the gas hit a seasonal peak of just under 427 parts per million in May — an increase of 2.9 ppm since May 2023 and the fifth-largest annual growth in 50 years of data recording.”
So title is clickbait? Nice cbs
If we up the carbon tax it should definitely reverse all of that.
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So, faster than ever means the fifth fastest rate recorded? No wonder people switch off and claim hyperbole.
Plants celebrate their lush air by growing into previously frozen wastelands!
We are currently at 425 ppm of CO2.
We did not manage to decrease the production of CO2. We did not even manage to stop increasing the production of CO2.
Yep, we might be up for couple of rough decades ahead.
Yeah every time we’ve ever made any recovery we immmediately dump more shit than ever into the environment and say ,”surely it will recover again” and unfortunately tens of millions of dumbass people see it as an attack to try and stop it
Hey, but don’t worry, all those global corporations who are making ridiculous amounts of money aren’t the ones causing it. Nooooope, it’s just us ants on the ground. Rich just gonna get richer.
So more plants now?
We should probably stop doing that, I think
Luckily, only really poor people will feel the brunt of this. I’m not concerned.
…and all we will do is buy more shit and get angry at our governments.
The human race yearns for its excitation, and people don’t care. I care but I’m doing all I can…..