Extreme Temperature Diary- Friday November 24th, 2023/Main Topic: Atmospheric CO2 Readings Continue to Show Our Climate Failure

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The main purpose of this ongoing blog will be to track extreme, or record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day. I’ll refer to extreme or record temperatures as ETs (not extraterrestrials).😉

Main Topic: Atmospheric CO2 Readings Continue to Show Our Climate Failure

Dear Diary. Tisk Tisk. I continue to shake my head when I see that carbon levels continue to skyrocket in the atmosphere. Now there are Indications that the rate of carbon increase is higher than in prior pandemic times, partially driven by the now booming economy in the United States. Despite inflation tampering our economy down, as I mentioned on Thanksgiving, more people than ever are taking to the skies and driving to holiday destinations, adding to CO2 totals.

Also, coal continues to be burned and oil drilled at alarming rates, though thankfully not as much as during the 2010s as indicated in my green renewable part of my news section on each post if you have been reading that.

Here is a link to a post from a couple of years ago at the height of the pandemic:

Extreme Temperature Diary- Tuesday January 12th, 2021/ Main Topic: Alarmingly Reaching the 50% Above Preindustrial Level For CO2 This Year – Guy On Climate

We were all armed when the CO2 level hit 217ppm at its peak in 2021 and are very much alarmed now that CO2 levels are at 222 ppm, and we are not yet at peak levels for this Keeling Curve cycle, which will occur during the early spring of 2024.

Here is more from the Guardian with an El Niño caveat from Dr. Michael Mann:

CO2 readings from Mauna Loa show failure to combat climate change | Environment | The Guardian

CO2 readings from Mauna Loa show failure to combat climate change

Daily atmospheric carbon dioxide data from Hawaiian volcano more than double last decade’s annual average

Paul Brown

Fri 24 Nov 2023

Eruption at Mauna Loa volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii on 29 November 2022. Photograph: MediaPunch/REX/Shutterstock

Just above this column on the weather page of the Guardian’s print edition is the daily atmospheric carbon dioxide readings from Mauna Loa in Hawaii, the acid test of how the world is succeeding in combatting climate change. A week before the 28th annual meeting of the United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention opens in oil-rich Dubai, it makes depressing reading.

At the time of writing it is 422.36 parts per million. That is 5.06ppm more than the same day last year. That rise in 12 months is probably the largest ever recorded – more than double the last decade’s annual average.

To give some perspective, exactly a decade ago the concentration was 395.64ppm. Then the scientific community worried about the effect on the weather if we were to pass the 400 mark. Now we know: the result is catastrophic heatwaves, storms, droughts, floods and rapidly increasing and unstoppable sea level rise.

The figures underline the fact that after 27 annual meetings of the convention, all the efforts of nearly 200 member states to tackle the menace of the climate crisis have been a failure, so far. The situation continues to get worse ever more rapidly. There is no sign of carbon dioxide levels going down, let alone reaching the “safe” level of 350ppm.

Related:

Here are more “ET’s” recorded from around the planet the last couple of days, their consequences, and some extreme temperature outlooks, as well as any extreme precipitation reports:

Here is more new October 2023 climatology:

Here is More Climate and Weather News from Friday:

(As usual, this will be a fluid post in which more information gets added during the day as it crosses my radar, crediting all who have put it on-line. Items will be archived on this site for posterity. In most instances click on the pictures of each tweet to see each article. The most noteworthy items will be listed first.)

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