(March 26, 2019 at 10:04 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(March 26, 2019 at 4:53 pm)Thoreauvian Wrote: Believe it or not, humanity is making steady progress on climate change. It will speed up in the next decade.
Too little too late; the rate of CO2 continues to climb:
NOAA -- CO2 trends
I believe CO2 is still rising on average about 2.5 ppm per year, but in 2018 the jump was even worse. CO2 spiked upwards again even though quite a few countries are making progress. That may be from permafrost beginning to melt and release its CO2. I haven't read the details of more recent opinions.
"A report released yesterday by a consortium of researchers known as the Global Carbon Project finds that global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are likely to have increased by about 2.7 percent in 2018, after a 1.6 percent increase in 2017. The rise comes after a three-year period in which emissions remained mostly flat—providing hope to some climate activists that global carbon emissions had reached their peak. The increases in 2017 and 2018 seem to suggest otherwise."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...h-in-2018/