2024's Disastrous CO2 Increased Readings Continue at the Mauna Loa Observatory.

While we're all focusing on a rogue Supreme Court declaring the Constitution Unconstitutional, as serious as that it, something more serious is going on, as it transcends the rise all fall of mere nations and in our case, our form of government being destroyed by radical unelected reactionary revolutionaries.

It involves all of humanity.

As I've indicated repeatedly in my DU writings, somewhat obsessively I keep spreadsheets of the of the daily, weekly, monthly and annual data at the Mauna Loa Carbon Dioxide Observatory, which I use to do calculations to record the dying of our atmosphere, a triumph of fear, dogma and ignorance that did not have to be, but nonetheless is, a fact.

Facts matter.

When writing these depressing repeating posts about new records being set, reminiscent, over the years, to the ticking of a clock at a deathwatch, I often repeat some of the language from a previous post on this awful series, as I am doing here with some modifications. It saves time.

Here's a recent post of mine referring to weekly data: A New Record Concentration for CO2, 427.98 ppm Has Been Set for the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory's Weekly Average.

If one looks, one can see that the rate of accumulation recorded at the Mauna Loa CO₂ Observatory is a sine wave superimposed on a roughly quadratic axis:



Monthly Average Mauna Loa CO2

The figure 427.98 ppm mentioned in my post above represents, surely, this year's peak, and was recorded in the week beginning April 21, 2024. It is 51.74 ppm higher than the peak recorded in 2002, the year I joined DU, which took place in the week beginning May 26, 2002, when the annual peak was 376.20 ppm.

2024 has been a remarkably terrifying year by comparison with the readings of 2002.

Here is the latest weekly reading:

Week beginning on June 23, 2024: 426.47 ppm
Weekly value from 1 year ago: 422.33 ppm
Weekly value from 10 years ago: 400.95 ppm
Last updated: July 02, 2024

Weekly average CO2 at Mauna Loa

There have been 2526 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 25 of 2024, shows an increase of 4.14 ppm over week 25 pf the previous year, 2023. Among all such increases for weekly data, again, 2526 of them, compared with the same week of the previous year, this is the 22nd highest ever recorded. It is one of only 26 readings to exceed an increase of 4.00 ppm, seven 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 15 have taken place in the last 5 years of which 9 occurred in 2024, 38 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 33rd highest.

The same media that loves to promote a seriously intellectually crippled serial rapist and con man and felon as a viable Presidential candidate likes to talk about a so called "energy transition" that is supposed to save our asses.

This highly advertised propaganda is connected with the unsupportable belief that the vast sums of money spent so called "renewable energy," which I personally regard as reactionary as the six thugs of the apocalypse in the rogue US Supreme Court, is about addressing climate change.

If so, the money is clearly wasted and ineffective. How much money is it?

The amount of money spent on so called "renewable energy" since 2015 is 4.12 trillion dollars, compared to 377 billion dollars spent on nuclear energy, much of the latter to prevent the willful and deadly destruction of existing nuclear infrastructure.



IEA overview, Energy Investments.

The graphic is interactive at the link; one can calculate overall expenditures on what the IEA dubiously calls "clean energy," ignoring the fact that the expenditure on so called "renewable energy" is basically a front for maintaining the growing use of fossil fuels.

A 52 week running average of week to week comparators with those recorded 10 years ago has reached a record, 25.02 ppm/10 years, in other words, 2.50 ppm/year. In 2000 this same figure in week 25 of that year was 15.76 ppm/10 years.

Things are getting worse faster.

People lie, to each other and to themselves, but numbers don't lie.

When our country, as precious as it has been to us, is an ancient memory, the rot we left behind in the planetary atmosphere will still persist.

History will not forgive us, nor should it.

Enjoy the upcoming July 4 holiday, even as we spit on the graves of our nation's founders.