419.85 R.U.F.K.M ?

CO2 concentrations at Mauna Loa continue the march…

Weather is NOT Climate, most certainly, but this is worthy of note.

For the first time temperatures of 40°C have been forecast in the UK and the Met Office has issued the first ever Red warning for exceptional heat.

MET Office – United Kingdom

The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

Late last month [May] the reading was 421.42ppm…

Readings since 1960

Readings for previous 2000 Years

Just a few hours prior to this article being published, Tanya Plibersek, the Australian Minister for the Environment and Water released the “State of the Environment” report, described by the Guardian Australia newspaper as showing that:

The health of Australia’s environment is poor and has deteriorated over the past five years due to pressures of climate change, habitat loss, invasive species, pollution and mining, according to a government report that warns the natural world holds the key to human wellbeing and survival.

The Guardian

The state of the environment report – a review completed by scientists last year but held back by the Morrison government until after the federal election – found abrupt changes in some Australian ecosystems over the past five years, with at least 19 now showing signs of collapse or near collapse.

Links

• You thought 417 was bad.
• 417, Yes. 417
• How has the climate changed since you were born?
• Carbon Brief.org
• 412.5
• Five from Five
• 1.5 – Probably Not…
• IPCC Global Warming of 1.5c
• 8th of October
• Oh, yeah, There’s this…
• Zero Carbon – The Future Called…
• The Fork in the Road
• Shutdown
• Carbon Conversations
• The Keeling Curve
• 410.05
• Mitigation, adaption… and suffering | Is there a choice?
• Water water everywhere and… nope.
• Yes, warmer still…
• 1.5 or 2 ? Take your pick!
• Consilience
• Elegy for the Arctic
• Cape Grim
• Flying Blind
• Hot, Hotter, Hottest… again
• Yes, the axis…
• What’s an Epoch? You’re standing in it!