New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record (Provisional) Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 424.63 ppm.
As I've indicated repeatedly in my DU writings, somewhat obsessively I keep a spreadsheet of the weekly 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 have been doing here with some modifications. It saves time.
I need to add the word "provisional" to the title this time because of a change in the way the data is delivered following the temporary movement of the observatory to MaunaKea after the eruption of the Mauna Loa volcano. Apparently the Mauna Loa observatory has reopened, but as this is rigorous analytical chemistry with sophisticated statistical and data review techniques for maintaining data integrity, a comparative exercise between the temporary and permanent observatories, the data, usually released on Sundays over the years, is now issued on Saturday, sometimes with revisions taking place later in the week.
This observatory, which began recording data in 1958, represents the longest running record of carbon dioxide concentrations in the world.
I covered these changes here:
Data Corrections At The Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory and the 2023 Concentration Records.
Here is the latest provisional data from the Observatory, again subject to revision resulting from our continual policy of doing nothing to address climate change:
Week beginning on May 28, 2023: 424.63 ppm
Weekly value from 1 year ago: 421.71 ppm
Weekly value from 10 years ago: 399.94 ppm
Last updated: June 03, 2023
Weekly average CO2 at Mauna Loa
Whenever I say "doing nothing," I can surely expect all kinds of excuses, tortured prevarications, and soothsaying from aficionados of the failed, and yes, useless, solar and wind industries and the even more stupid and far more dangerous ideas of storing energy (with the appalling hydrogen and battery nonsense) when we do not have clean primary energy. These are to be expected. Popular lies always die with difficulty, particularly when they take on cult status.
If you want to argue that mining and land use changes with associated with the useless the solar and wind industries are "doing something," please be assured there is a zero probability that I will buy it. You are of course, entitled to believe whatever you wish, but there's a 100% probability that I won't buy it.
At the close of the 20th century, a 52 week running average of comparators with data of that obtained in the same week 10 years earlier was 15.26 ppm/10 years. As of this week the same figure is 24.25 ppm/10 years.
Things are getting worse faster.
Whatever it is we think we're doing to address the waste crisis associated with the use of dangerous fossil fuels, it clearly isn't working.
As I note in this series of posts, the concentrations of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide which is killing the planet even as we carry on and on and on and on about things like Fukushima, which will not kill the planet, fluctuate sinusoidally over the year, with the rough sine wave superimposed on a quadratic axis:
Monthly Average Mauna Loa CO2
This year's peak, should it hold, is exactly 3.00 ppm over last year's peak, actually also in a week beginning at the end of May, which was 421.63 ppm.
It is unusual for the yearly peak to occur in June; it last happened in the week beginning June 1, 1980 when the annual peak concentration was 341.61 ppm, 80.1 ppm lower than this year's peak.
I will be traveling to a scientific conference in Texas tomorrow morning (I hope I don't get shot, knock on wood) and may not be available to update this data if it is revised.
Have a nice weekend.
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