At the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory, we've again surged past 421 ppm for weekly readings.

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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 am doing here. It saves time.

Here is a recent example in this class of postings from earlier this year that I can quickly locate: New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 422.60 ppm.

Ultimately the 2023 record for the dangerous fossil fuel waste CO₂ concentrations in the planetary atmosphere was set during the week beginning May 28, 2023 when the concentration was 424.64 ppm. The readings are generally sinusoidal superimposed on a roughly quadratic axis, with local annual minima set generally in September or October of any given year, and local maxima set in an April-May-(sometimes) June time frame. I derived a crude formula for the quadratic axis here:

A Commentary on Failure, Delusion and Faith: Danish Data on Big Wind Turbines and Their Lifetimes.



Here are the current readings at Mauna Loa for the week beginning November 12, 2023:

Weekly average CO2 at Mauna Loa

The current reading is 3.91 ppm over the reading for the same week of last year, week 45, 2022, the week beginning November 13, 2022. There are as of this writing, 2,494 weekly readings in my spreadsheet, going back to 1975. This is the 23rd highest weekly reading ever recorded in this time, placing it in the 99th percentile of all such readings. Of the 50 highest readings in my spreadsheet, 13 have occurred in the last 5 years, 33 in the last ten years, and 40 in the 21st century.

In the 21st century, there has been a lot of jawboning about a so called "energy transition" as if it actually exists.

It doesn't.

We are using more dangerous fossil fuels than ever before, and we have no rational plan to stop using them, this the result of mindless selective attention of dumb assed antinukes who oppose the only sustainable option left to us.

This jawboning involves trumpeting the trillions of dollars squandered on solar and wind energy, coupled with all kinds of soothsaying about how this mass intensive, money intensive and land intensive unsustainable scheme will save the day.

It won't.

The data, coupled with absurd soothsaying:



I have reproduced the excerpted text from another of my posts here: The 2023 World Energy Outlook Has Been Released. 632 EJ, 15 EJ from Solar and Wind in 2022.

If the soothsaying data in this table is actually realized, the planet will be in flames even more regularly than it is now, and now is already a disaster.

As an environmentalist of the increasingly rare John Muir type - one who believes that wilderness should be protected rather than converted into industrial parks for energy production, including for wind and solar crappy industrial parks - I am thoroughly disgusted not just with the failure to address climate change with any practical program, but also with the lies that persist that we are doing "something" rather than nothing, which is what we are doing.

Let me repeat: Nothing practical is being done.

Have a pleasant Sunday and enjoy the upcoming holiday.