Environment & Energy

...let me guess, you want to say the data a Mauna Loa is wrong?

I fully understand that most "renewable energy will save us" types are uninterested entirely in the data connected with the collapse of the planetary atmosphere and thus have no experience with the data published there. I am well aware as well of the contempt for science, but as a person working in analytical chemistry, I can also say that the procedures utilized in compiling this data are available on the website and are beautiful to read, rigorous with a discussion, as analytical chemistry should have, of instrumentation, analytical blanks, accuracy, precision, and data processing. It will be a terrible event if the orange pedophile, his contempt for science exceeding even that of the antinukes around here, shuts the facility down.

It is not as if reducing, for a period of 50 to 60 weeks, slightly, energy demand, is going to suck carbon dioxide out of the air. However if one opens the page, one can also see the data for increases in the concentration of carbon dioxide for every year going back to 1960, which is not to say that antinukes are remotely interested in these numbers. In 2022 that increase was 1.83 ppm for the yearly average, 2021, 2.34 ppm and 2020 2.30 ppm, compared to 3.36 ppm for 2023, and 3.33 ppm for 2024. A bar graph is available at the site for the people who can't read very well.

2023 and 2024 set records for the worst and second worst years ever.

I seem to recall that Covid did not result in the shutdown of all the planet's power plants and gas stations. Did I miss that?

We are trillions of dollars into the solar/wind/electric car miracle advertised here as "the energy transition" that people carry on endlessly about.

In my opinion, "the energy transition" has less of a reality than, say, the Easter Bunny. The evidence for the Easter Bunny is that when my kids were small Easter baskets used to show up filled with candy, although I concede my wife may have had something to do with that. The evidence for an "energy transition" by contrast is not evident from the high quality scientific data available at Mauna Loa for concentrations of carbon dioxide in the planetary atmosphere.

Have a nice day.