June 2019 is the third worst June recorded at the Mauna Loa CO2 observatory in 60 years.
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I keep spreadsheets of the monthly and weekly data at the Mauna Loa Carbon dioxide observatory which I can use to sort and interpret the data. The data going back to 1958 is posted on the observatory's website, 61 years of data and 60 years of year to year monthly comparisons. June 2019 was recently posted. June 2019 is the third worst ever recorded.
Monthly Average Mauna Loa CO2 (Accessed July 14, 2019.)
The average reading in June 2019 was 413.92 ppm as compared to 410.79 ppm for June of 2018, 3.13 ppm higher than last year. (The carbon dioxide levels fall every year from roughly May to September during the Northern Hemisphere's summer.)
The worst June ever recorded, only one of two such values to exceed a change greater than 4.00 ppm of all the months ever recorded at Mauna Loa, was 4.01 ppm in 2016. (April 2016 saw an increase of 4.16 ppm over April of 2015).
Of the twelve worst monthly readings, 7 have occurred since January of 2015. The 3.13 recorded this month is the 20th worst of 724 monthly year to year increase readings, placing it the 97th percentile for all such readings.
The second worst June, 3.36 ppm over the previous year occurred in 1998, an El Nino year in which fires set to clear the Malaysian and Indonesian rain forests to make palm oil plantations to supply "renewable biodiesel" to Germany and other countries went out of control, burning much of the rain forest in those regions and releasing the carbon.
The average year to year increases for every month since June of 2009 is 2.33 ppm/year. The average for the first ten years of such data from June of 1959 to June of 1969 was 0.82 ppm/year.
If any of this troubles you, don't worry, be happy.
Head over to E&E forum here and read posts confusing the power unit "Watt" with the infinitely more important energy unit "Joule" and read lots and lots of posts how so called "renewable energy" "could" supply 100% of Europe'e energy by "such and such a year" when I, among, I suspect, all the people handing out this delusional horseshit will be dead.
Maybe you'll feel better. I won't, but maybe you will.
Decades of hearing this stuff on my part has not prevented me from observing that so called "renewable energy" did not work, is not working, and, I am absolutely certain, will not work to even slow climate change, never mind stop it. In fact, when this rhetoric received world wide support at a level of trillions of dollars in this century, the degradation of the atmosphere accelerated as opposed to slowed.
I'd love to stay and chat, but I'm reading some scientific papers on how techentium sulfide PV cells could be just great. They might be better than all this stuff we have now for no result, but that certainly won't matter, any more than the idea of distributing lead based perovskite solar cells, which some people actually think is a good idea, won't matter.
We're cooked and cooking.
Have a pleasant Sunday afternoon.
