As we conclude yet another week of mass delusion in the United States, Arctic climate researcher Jennifer Francis spoke of living in an "interesting time."
“We’ve got this huge El Niño out there, we have the warm blob in the northeast Pacific, the cool blob in the Atlantic, and this ridiculously warm Arctic,” says Jennifer Francis, a climate researcher at Rutgers University who focuses on the Arctic and has argued that Arctic changes are changing mid-latitude weather by causing wobbles in the jet stream. “All these things happening at the same time that have never happened before”...
“I think this winter is going to get studied like crazy, for quite a while,” says Francis. “It’s a very interesting time.”
It surely is an interesting time when we see that
... for the week beginning on February 7, 2016, the Mauna Loa Observatory measured 403.76 carbon dioxide molecules per million in the atmosphere (ppm).
One year ago this week, it measured CO2 levels at 400.05 ppm. Ten years ago, the Observatory measured levels at 382.43 ppm.
It appears to me that humans are seriously underestimating total emissions. Or maybe one of the large carbon sinks (oceans, terrestrial) is weakening fast.
Nothing humans do or say they will do matters if CO2 continues to rise at >3 ppm/year.
The year-over-year difference as of the week of February 7, 2016 was 3.71.
And that's happening at a time of global economic weakness when we might expect human-caused emissions to be declining year-over-year. At this rate it will take 13 years to get to 450, at which point Homo sapiens would be wise to acknowledge its own inadequacy, throw in the towel, bend over, put its collective head between its knees, and kiss its sorry ass goodbye.
If you want to know just how serious the warming has been lately, read here.
Have a nice weekend.
You have a nice weekend too, Dave
Posted by: Ernst | 02/19/2016 at 11:11 AM