It Would Take A Drop Of 20-30% In Human CO2 Output Over Six Months+ To Bend The Keeling Curve

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Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached their annual peak last month, and once again were the highest in human history.

Despite the economic collapse resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, which has led to sharp declines in carbon dioxide emissions, the amount of the greenhouse gas has continued to climb. The May monthly average was 417.2 parts per million, according to scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. Separately, researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported a slightly lower May average of 417.1 parts per million. The readings are about one-half of 1 percent higher than the previous high, in May 2019. The year-to-year increase of about 2.5 parts per million is in line with the average annual increase during the past decade. Half a century ago, the average annual increase was just 0.8 parts per million.

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But even a drop of that magnitude is overshadowed by natural variability in carbon emissions from vegetation and soil in response to seasonal changes in temperature and soil moisture, Scripps scientists said in a news release announcing the readings. They estimated that human-caused emissions would have to drop by 20 percent to 30 percent for at least six months to result in a slowing of the rate of increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

“People may be surprised to hear that the response to the coronavirus outbreak hasn’t done more to influence CO2 levels,” said Ralph Keeling, a geochemist who runs the Scripps Oceanography CO2 program. The project, begun by his father, Charles D. Keeling, has been taking readings since 1958 at a NOAA observatory on Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii. “But the buildup of CO2 is a bit like trash in a landfill,” he said. “As we keep emitting, it keeps piling up. The crisis has slowed emissions, but not enough to show up perceptibly at Mauna Loa.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/climate/carbon-dioxide-record-climate-change.html

[Ilsa]

1. A deadlier pandemic, a few world wars,

frequent massive earthquakes and tsunami, and a few other global tragedies might fix it, but only for the moment. We are killing off future generations before they have a chance to fix our messes.

[SamKnause]

2. If we shut down every factory, if we stop driving all gasoline powered cars,

if we stop using all gasoline powered agricultural machines, if we stop burning coal the

temperature will rise quickly and dramatically.

It is called the Albedo Effect.

When all the particles drop from the atmosphere to the ground the suns rays get more intense.

There are too many feedback loops that have been activated.

It is too late to stop climate change.

As the glaciers melt more land and rocks are exposed.

Snow reflects the sun.

Water, rocks, and land absorb the sun.

When new ice forms it is thin and fragile.

It melts quickly.

Plants and animals can not survive quick and dramatic changes.

The world's top soil in disappearing because of industrial farming.

The list is endless.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. This☝️