Over the past few years, something pretty amazing and hopeful happened. Global carbon emissions began to stabilize. This was caused, primarily, by stronger emissions reduction policies in China even as the rest of the world moved steadily away from coal burning and more and more toward adopting clean energy systems provided by the likes of wind, […]
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Record Emissions: 41 Billion Tons of Heat-Trapping Carbon Dioxide Were Added to the Atmosphere This Year
Posted by robertscribbler on November 14, 2017
https://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2017/11/14/record-emissions-41-billion-tons-of-heat-trapping-carbon-dioxide-were-added-to-the-atmosphere-this-year/
Nature — Plants Belched 3 Billion Tons of Carbon into Atmosphere During Monster El Nino of 2014-2016
El Nino. This periodic warming of the Equatorial Pacific has long been known to trigger droughts, wildfires, and higher temperatures throughout the tropics. And, according to a new satellite data based report out of the scientific journal Nature, these very same El Nino feedbacks combined with record global heat to squeeze a massive volume of […]
Posted by robertscribbler on August 14, 2017
https://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2017/08/14/nature-plants-belched-3-billion-tons-of-carbon-into-atmosphere-during-monster-el-nino-of-2014-2016/
New Study Finds that Present CO2 Levels are Capable of Melting Large Portions of East and West Antarctica
If you’re a regular reader of this blog and its comments section, you’re probably more than a little worried about two bits of climate science in particular: Our understanding of past climates (paleoclimate) and 5-6 C long term climate sensitivity. And if you’re a frequent returner, you’ve probably figured out by now that the two […]
Posted by robertscribbler on August 1, 2017
https://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2017/08/01/new-study-finds-that-present-co2-levels-are-capable-of-melting-large-portions-of-east-and-west-antarctica/
“Too Huge to Manage” — New Studies Highlight Danger in Failing to Rapidly Cut Carbon Emissions Now
“If we continue burning coal and oil the way we do today and regret our inaction later, the amounts of greenhouse gas we would need to take out of the atmosphere in order to stabilize the climate would be too huge to manage,” — Lena Boysen from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in […]
Posted by robertscribbler on May 25, 2017
https://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/too-huge-to-manage-new-studies-highlight-danger-in-failing-to-rapidly-cut-carbon-emissions-now/
Carbon Sinks in Crisis — It Looks Like the World’s Largest Rainforest is Starting to Bleed Greenhouse Gasses
Back in 2005, and again in 2010, the vast Amazon rainforest, which has been aptly described as the world’s lungs, briefly lost its ability to take in atmospheric carbon dioxide. Its drought-stressed trees were not growing and respiring enough to, on balance, draw carbon out of the air. Fires roared through the forest, transforming trees […]
Posted by robertscribbler on August 5, 2016
https://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2016/08/05/carbon-sinks-in-crisis-it-looks-like-the-worlds-largest-rainforest-is-starting-to-bleed-greenhouse-gasses/
Monitor Shows Carbon Monoxide Spikes to 40,000 Parts Per Billion over California on February 26 — What the Heck is Going On?
Hint: it’s a glitch. ***** On February 26, The Global Forecast System model recorded an (unconfirmed) intense and wide-ranging carbon monoxide (CO) spike over the US West Coast. A region stretching from British Columbia, through Washington and Oregon, and on over most of California experienced CO readings ranging from about 5,000 parts per billion over […]
Posted by robertscribbler on February 29, 2016
https://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/carbon-monoxide-spikes-to-34000-parts-per-billion-over-california-on-february-26-what-the-heck-is-going-on/
CO2 Levels Rose 6 Parts Per Million in Two Years. Are the Earth’s Carbon Sinks Starting to Fill Up?
(Image source: Keeling Curve) In May of 2011, worldwide CO2 levels hit a yearly maximum of 394 parts per million. At the most recent average rate of CO2 increase (about 2 parts per million each year), the world would have hit 400 parts per million by 2014. Instead, that number was reached 1 year sooner. It […]
Posted by robertscribbler on June 17, 2013
https://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/co2-levels-rose-6-parts-per-million-in-two-years-are-the-earths-carbon-sinks-starting-to-fill-up/
Joe Nocera’s Real Carbon Problem: Attacking Climate Leaders While Promoting Dangerous Energy
Joe Nocera has, in a few short weeks, written pieces that promote tar sands extraction, promote enhanced oil extraction, promote increased reliance on coal, support harmful actions by fossil fuel companies and attack top supporters for transitioning to clean energy: climate scientist James Hansen and environmentalist Bill McKibben. Joe’s rhetoric is so similar to those […]
Posted by robertscribbler on March 17, 2013
https://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2013/03/17/joe-noceras-real-carbon-problem-attacking-climate-leaders-while-promoting-dangerous-energy/
The Hot 15 Million Year Time Machine — 415 Parts Per Million CO2
The clanking, wheezing, gasping, choking engines of fossil fuel burning are propelling us backwards toward hotter and hotter geological contexts. And with new atmospheric CO2 records shattered this week, it is, once again, time to take stock. Jonathan Overpeck, dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability yesterday noted: “We keep breaking records, but what […]
Posted by robertscribbler on May 14, 2019
https://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2019/05/14/the-hot-15-million-year-time-machine-415-parts-per-million-co2/
2018 Likely to be 4th Hottest; But 2019 Might Break All Records
According to NASA’s global monitoring division, the period of December 2017 through November 2018 was the fourth hottest such time ever measured in the global climate record. Starting in 1880, the measure now spans 138 years. And it marks a period of unprecedented rapid change in the Earth’s climate system — driven primarily by fossil […]
Posted by robertscribbler on December 26, 2018
https://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2018/12/26/2018-likely-to-be-4th-hottest-but-2019-might-break-all-records/
Key Heat Trapping Gas Crosses 410 Parts Per Million Threshold — Highest Level in Past 5-20 Million Years
This past week, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels passed a new ominous milestone. Clocking in at 410.7 parts per million at the Mauna Loa Observatory, this key heat trapping gas hit a range not seen on Earth for many millions of years. (The world crossed the 410 part per million milestone in the daily measure this […]
Posted by robertscribbler on April 26, 2017
https://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2017/04/26/key-heat-trapping-gas-crosses-410-parts-per-million-threshold-highest-level-in-past-5-20-million-years/
May Marks 8th Consecutive Record Hot Month in NASA’s Global Temperature Measure
According to NASA, the world has just experienced another record hot month. May of 2016 was the warmest May since record keeping began for NASA 137 years ago. It is now the 8th record hot month in row. In other words, since October, every month has been the hottest such month ever recorded (October vs […]
Posted by robertscribbler on June 13, 2016
https://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2016/06/13/may-marks-8th-consecutive-record-hot-month-in-nasas-global-temperature-measure/
NASA — World Just Had Seven Months Straight of Record-Shattering Global Heat
It’s not just that we’re seeing record global heat. It’s that 2016’s jump in global temperatures may be the biggest single-year spike ever recorded. It’s that the world may never again see annual temperatures below 1 C above preindustrial averages. And it’s that this high level of heat, and a related spiking of atmospheric greenhouse […]
Posted by robertscribbler on May 16, 2016
https://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2016/05/16/nasa-world-just-had-seven-months-straight-of-record-shattering-global-heat/
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