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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #50 on: May 09, 2018, 10:44:34 PM »
CO2 values at Mauna Loa are unlikely to be affected by the volcano unless the plume can breach the subtropical inversion that typically sets up there. The fast fluctuations are likely due to weather (a longwave trough axis recently passed over the station during the drop and could have easily entrained some lower CO2 air down over the station).

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« Reply #51 on: May 11, 2018, 01:19:06 AM »
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Trump White House axes Nasa research into greenhouse gas cuts

The Carbon Monitoring System (CMS), a $10m (£7m)-a-year project which remotely tracks the world's flow of carbon dioxide, is to lose funding.

Science magazine reports that its loss jeopardises the ability to measure national emission cuts - as agreed to by nations in the Paris climate deal.


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44067797
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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #52 on: May 12, 2018, 07:15:39 PM »
Kees van der Leun.  https://twitter.com/Sustainable2050/status/995056062016483328

“Since I was born, CO2 at Mauna Loa crossed:
320 ppm in May 1960
330 in May 1972
340 March 1980
350 May 1986
360 May 1993
370 April 1999
380 April 2004
390 May 2009
400 April 2014
and 410 ppm in April 2018
I apologize for any inconvenience caused.”

“Years it took us to drive up CO2 by 10 ppm:
320 → 330:  12
330 → 340:   8
340 → 350:   6
350 → 360:   7
360 → 370:   6
370 → 380:   5
380 → 390:  5
390 → 400:  5
400 → 410:  4
That’s making the climate crisis worse faster.”


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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #53 on: May 13, 2018, 01:14:11 AM »
We not only haven't stopped it's growth, we haven't even slowed it's acceleration.


If we added CH4 to the chart it could get scary. :-\


Bob mentioned on another thread that we just needed to speed up what we're doing to curb emissions.
I think we've got to slow down, way down.


40 MPH on the freeway, 20 everywhere else.
Ground all of the planes.
No new cars, trucks, or ships.
It may not turn us around, but it might stop the acceleration.


Drastic measures are called for.
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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #54 on: May 13, 2018, 07:44:42 AM »
Doing less is not that drastic, Terry.
During my puny stay on this one and only human habitat in the universe, humanity has taken some seriously drastic measures to ramp up CO2 ~100ppm. Either we fix that ourselves or evolution will fix it for us.

Planet Earth has a nasty way to deal with nuisances.
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« Reply #55 on: May 13, 2018, 03:36:27 PM »
We not only haven't stopped it's growth, we haven't even slowed it's acceleration.


If we added CH4 to the chart it could get scary. :-\

Good to see more people saying this, because I've felt alone repeating it for years. We havent done anything to cut CO2 emissions significantly enough to fight climate change.

The climate movement keeps getting used for purposes other than fighting climate change. The movement spent years caught up pointlessly arguing with deniers, abstaining from politics while publishing articles promising false hope, and even protesting Trump like he caused this problem.

I love hearing this comedy about how horrible Conservative parties are destroying all the non-existent progress of Liberal parties. There was also a good joke a few years back claiming that actual emissions paused, even though CO2 emissions didnt.

Now that CH4 emissions are accelerating along with CO2, this show is starting get interesting. How much longer can people keep lying to themselves that things will be alright?

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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #56 on: May 13, 2018, 04:40:48 PM »
We not only haven't stopped it's growth, we haven't even slowed it's acceleration.


If we added CH4 to the chart it could get scary. :-\


Bob mentioned on another thread that we just needed to speed up what we're doing to curb emissions.
I think we've got to slow down, way down.


40 MPH on the freeway, 20 everywhere else.
Ground all of the planes.
No new cars, trucks, or ships.
It may not turn us around, but it might stop the acceleration.


Drastic measures are called for.
Terry

I will say again, we simply cannot rely on market mechanisms to get us where we need to be. We need a Marshall Plan, a planet wide commitment to transition away from fossil fuels and it needs to be completed in 2 decades.

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« Reply #57 on: May 13, 2018, 05:23:48 PM »
I will say again, we simply cannot rely on market mechanisms to get us where we need to be. We need a Marshall Plan, a planet wide commitment to transition away from fossil fuels and it needs to be completed in 2 decades.
Isn't this just another way of saying that we're just waiting for the fat lady to sing a dirge for the death of civilization?


A Marshall Plan actually requires some tin star marshall to come blazing into town with all of his brothers, rooting out and shooting up every evil doer in the territory. Who is going to tell both Dangerous Donald and Vicious Vlad that they not only have to holster their nukes, they've got to hand them over to the New Marshall in Town?
Who has the moral authority to tell China and India to stop moving their poor into the middle class? Who can tell tropical people and desert dwellers that they must turn off the air conditioning in the baby's room?
Waiting for a Marshal to appear, and putting any hope in any Plan he might envision is like waiting for Godot, if he exists, he's got pressing business somewhere else.


We couldn't agree on the shape of the table where Peace in Vietnam would be negotiated. Slavery exists almost 200 years after Britain abolished it. New coal plants are coming on line, and newer ones are on the drawing board.


Two decades is the blink of an eye.
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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #58 on: May 13, 2018, 07:57:33 PM »
Cement is another huge problem, at the moment CO2 emissions from cement production in China is more then India's CO2 emissions from fossil fuel.


https://carboncounter.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/building-china-the-role-of-cement-in-chinas-rapid-development/

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« Reply #59 on: May 14, 2018, 03:52:02 PM »
I will say again, we simply cannot rely on market mechanisms to get us where we need to be. We need a Marshall Plan, a planet wide commitment to transition away from fossil fuels and it needs to be completed in 2 decades.
Isn't this just another way of saying that we're just waiting for the fat lady to sing a dirge for the death of civilization?


A Marshall Plan actually requires some tin star marshall to come blazing into town with all of his brothers, rooting out and shooting up every evil doer in the territory. Who is going to tell both Dangerous Donald and Vicious Vlad that they not only have to holster their nukes, they've got to hand them over to the New Marshall in Town?
Who has the moral authority to tell China and India to stop moving their poor into the middle class? Who can tell tropical people and desert dwellers that they must turn off the air conditioning in the baby's room?
Waiting for a Marshal to appear, and putting any hope in any Plan he might envision is like waiting for Godot, if he exists, he's got pressing business somewhere else.


We couldn't agree on the shape of the table where Peace in Vietnam would be negotiated. Slavery exists almost 200 years after Britain abolished it. New coal plants are coming on line, and newer ones are on the drawing board.


Two decades is the blink of an eye.
Terry

The U.S. rebuilding Europe using the Marshall Plan did not undermine Democracies. It strengthened them. If the rebuilding of Europe had been left to market forces, it would have taken decades.

If we are worried about autocratic states, let the unfolding disaster deliver unbelievable pain and suffering without any advance prep. A dying population will not resist a police state. It will welcome it.

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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #60 on: May 17, 2018, 03:31:30 PM »
April 2018:       410.26 ppm

Record high monthly value and first over 410.

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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #61 on: May 17, 2018, 04:38:48 PM »
How did this discussion develop on this CO2 thread?


A personal lack of discipline on my part.

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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #62 on: May 17, 2018, 04:58:11 PM »
May 14:      412.45 ppm

Probably a record daily reading at MLO

Did that a little up thread:
412.63 26th April 2017
still retains record.

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« Reply #63 on: June 02, 2018, 03:40:28 PM »
Nice general analysis of greenhouse gas emissions. No new ground here but a good graph rich read.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions

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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #64 on: June 02, 2018, 08:17:34 PM »
While I believe that the linked data errs on the side of least drama, this NOAA data indicates that for the year 2017: CO2eq = 493ppm & AGGI =1.41.

Title: "THE NOAA ANNUAL GREENHOUSE GAS INDEX (AGGI), Updated Spring 2018"

https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/aggi/aggi.html
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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #65 on: June 07, 2018, 02:00:10 PM »
Peak month CO2 at Mauna Loa:

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May 2018:       411.25 ppm
May 2017:       409.65 ppm

Up 1.6 ppm

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« Reply #66 on: June 18, 2018, 03:39:37 PM »
An exponential growth in atmospheric CO2 that parallels the development of the industrial revolution.

https://www.ducksters.com/history/us_1800s/timeline_industrial_revolution.php

1. A graph of world energy consumption.
2. A graph of early industrial Great Britain.
3. A graph of world population growth.
4. A graph of sea level changes.

Not a coincidence that each have a pronounced exponential behavior.
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« Reply #67 on: June 19, 2018, 07:55:28 AM »
El Niños always have an impact on the year-over-year CO2 rate so it's already baked in to the longterm regressions.  An annual growth rate of 2.0 ppm is wishful thinking unless we change course fast.  Tamino shows the current growth rate is closer to 2.25 PPM and accelerating.  There will be non El Nino +3.0 PPM years before too long.

https://tamino.wordpress.com/2018/01/20/is-co2-still-accelerating/

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« Reply #68 on: June 19, 2018, 01:15:21 PM »
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Until I see significant sustainable change in Fossil Fuel use and the economy wide drivers of AGW then my answer to the Poll above;

By 2023-2028 period, what will happen to emissions and airborne fraction?

Cannot be anything other than: 1. Emissions continue to rise at increased rate, airborne fraction increases

For the period 2018 to 2023, I would have to agree with emissions continue to rise at increased rate. Airborne fraction and later 2023-2028 period seems much less clear to me.
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« Reply #69 on: June 28, 2018, 09:52:35 AM »
Was curious what the year-over-year change for every month looks like rather than 1 single point per year.  Red line is running 12-month average.  Just did last 10 years but that includes several of Niños and Niñas.

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« Reply #70 on: July 12, 2018, 08:00:09 AM »
June 2018 came in at 410.79.  Nearly a 2 PPM year-over-year change.  The 12-month running smooth should be bottoming out soon with Niño firing up.  It took until ~October 2015 before YoY changes started to jump.  However, that was a multi year Niño which makes it different than previous events.

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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #71 on: July 13, 2018, 04:05:02 PM »
April global reading is in:

April 2018:        408.96 ppm
April 2017:        406.33 ppm

+2.63ppm -- still running ahead of 2017's increase, which is a bit surprising. I expected there to be more braking action from the Nina at this point, like Mauna Loa had, but the other stations aren't really showing it:



2010s continue their streak of coming in well above 2ppm, with the exception of the 2011 "Super Nina" year, which featured a very cold trop. Pacific year-round and a strong rebound effect from the 2010 Nino. The rebound effect this time around has been tepid, even with colder basin-wide temps this year:

2010   2.44   (+/-)0.06
2011   1.69   0.09
2012   2.38   0.09
2013   2.42   0.09
2014   2.04   0.09
2015   2.93   0.09
2016   2.85   0.09
2017   2.21   0.09


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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #72 on: July 22, 2018, 10:45:47 PM »
"+2.63ppm -- still running ahead of 2017's increase, which is a bit surprising. I expected there to be more braking action from the Nina at this point, like Mauna Loa had, but the other stations aren't really showing it"

Mauna Loa is right in the middle of the Pacific, so perhaps it picks up the Nina/Nino effects quicker than other monitoring sites, not a climate scientist but that seems logical to me. Takes time for global mixing to occur.

With emissions continuing to increase (China up 4% y-o-y in Q1 2018), the rate of change in the atmospheric concentrations can only continue to increase. We havn't even stabilized the rate of increase in the amount of CO2, let alone stabilize the actual amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. Such an incredible disconnection between the politicians (even the 'climate believers') and the geophysics.

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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #73 on: August 08, 2018, 03:22:50 AM »
July came in at 408.71 ppm at Mauna Loa.  That's a 1.64 ppm year-over-year change or growth rate.  The running 12-month average is also around the lowest growth rate since 2012.  I expect this to bottom soon as we head deeper into warm ENSO or El Niño.

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« Reply #74 on: August 08, 2018, 08:41:31 PM »
July came in at 408.71 ppm at Mauna Loa.  That's a 1.64 ppm year-over-year change or growth rate.  The running 12-month average is also around the lowest growth rate since 2012.  I expect this to bottom soon as we head deeper into warm ENSO or El Niño.

what could be the impact of the near by volcano eruptions, as far as i know they release significant amounts of CO2.

while the trend is obvious i just wonder whether there is an impact and if so, how big that would be?

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« Reply #75 on: August 08, 2018, 10:15:06 PM »
July came in at 408.71 ppm at Mauna Loa.  That's a 1.64 ppm year-over-year change or growth rate.  The running 12-month average is also around the lowest growth rate since 2012.  I expect this to bottom soon as we head deeper into warm ENSO or El Niño.

what could be the impact of the near by volcano eruptions, as far as i know they release significant amounts of CO2.

while the trend is obvious i just wonder whether there is an impact and if so, how big that would be?

I believe that when the wind is blowing from the volcano towards the observatory they shut observations down.
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« Reply #76 on: August 08, 2018, 11:07:25 PM »
There are several CO2 monitoring stations but Mauna-Loa has the longest record.

Volcano's release lots of different gases and CO2 is probably one of the least toxic (by volume).
This is what the Hawaii volcano emissions looks like.
Sentinel-5P Tracking Emissions from Hawaii’s Kīlauea Volcano
https://www.gislounge.com/sentinel-5p-tracking-emissions-hawaiis-kilauea-volcano/

Everyone knows the oxygen levels are dropping while CO2 is rising.
http://scrippso2.ucsd.edu/

Looks like some kind of correlation. Where is the oxygen going? It's not going into the ocean because it's dropping too.
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« Reply #77 on: August 08, 2018, 11:32:59 PM »

Everyone knows the oxygen levels are dropping while CO2 is rising.
http://scrippso2.ucsd.edu/

Looks like some kind of correlation. Where is the oxygen going? It's not going into the ocean because it's dropping too.

From your own link
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Oxygen levels are decreasing globally due to fossil-fuel burning.

O2 + C => CO2

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« Reply #78 on: August 08, 2018, 11:38:07 PM »
No no no. CO2 is plant food and the planet is greening... So more plants = more oxygen so there can't be less oxygen!!

I'm pulling your leg. It's a common climate change denier argument.
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« Reply #79 on: August 09, 2018, 01:39:04 AM »
July came in at 408.71 ppm at Mauna Loa.  That's a 1.64 ppm year-over-year change or growth rate.  The running 12-month average is also around the lowest growth rate since 2012.  I expect this to bottom soon as we head deeper into warm ENSO or El Niño.

what could be the impact of the near by volcano eruptions, as far as i know they release significant amounts of CO2.

while the trend is obvious i just wonder whether there is an impact and if so, how big that would be?

I believe that when the wind is blowing from the volcano towards the observatory they shut observations down.

THX makes totally sense ;)

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« Reply #80 on: August 09, 2018, 06:44:29 AM »
As others have mentioned this data is quality controlled.  Mauna Loa is 11,000 ft up and mostly protected from the mixing layer which keeps most volcanic emissions out of it.  Globally with some exceptions CO2 is well mixed.   So quick and abrupt changes in concentration are thrown out because it's not representative of a global well mixed measurement.

July came in at 408.71 ppm at Mauna Loa.  That's a 1.64 ppm year-over-year change or growth rate.  The running 12-month average is also around the lowest growth rate since 2012.  I expect this to bottom soon as we head deeper into warm ENSO or El Niño.

what could be the impact of the near by volcano eruptions, as far as i know they release significant amounts of CO2.

while the trend is obvious i just wonder whether there is an impact and if so, how big that would be?

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« Reply #81 on: August 09, 2018, 07:04:52 AM »
As others have mentioned this data is quality controlled.  Mauna Loa is 11,000 ft up and mostly protected from the mixing layer which keeps most volcanic emissions out of it.  Globally with some exceptions CO2 is well mixed.   So quick and abrupt changes in concentration are thrown out because it's not representative of a global well mixed measurement.

July came in at 408.71 ppm at Mauna Loa.  That's a 1.64 ppm year-over-year change or growth rate.  The running 12-month average is also around the lowest growth rate since 2012.  I expect this to bottom soon as we head deeper into warm ENSO or El Niño.

what could be the impact of the near by volcano eruptions, as far as i know they release significant amounts of CO2.

while the trend is obvious i just wonder whether there is an impact and if so, how big that would be?
i understood the records not incorporated to the Mauna Loa record needed to be some 4-sigma or other ridiculous amount off from general trends. They're not thrown out of course but just not included. Probably someone up there uses these as validation method for the trends too. It is pretty easy to mess with the numbers, f.e. set up a similar instrument near by and park a running gas guzzler beside it to see how much the numbers change. In finnish military I gathered some air samples (partly for acid rain, partly for ghgs) during winter time, there wasn't any validation done during the winter, though, the measurement station was on otherwise unused, but foot-patrolled area about a mile away from harbor and regularly used roads, so I guess that wasn't necessary back then. Nice to see they've continued and expanded the measurements and changed to an automated system... (my section of the graph would be in the early 1990s, and having way less dates of measurements (not shown)) http://ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/kasvihuonekaasujen-pitoisuudet
Cool to see the effect of weather on the amounts nowadays, air masses from different directions have a measurable difference on CO2/other ghg levels, but this is way less variance than f.e. in relative humidity. Even the daily cycle of plant/algae activity can be sometimes seen :-)
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« Reply #82 on: August 09, 2018, 10:33:11 AM »
What else, carbon monoxide concentrations have been falling a bit every year, my guess this is for energy efficiency standards, cleaner burn produces less CO, and anyway much of it gets oxidated by low level ozone or other procesess. Methane is erratic as ever with it's peaks, though most is from snow covered wintertime when the soil bacteria can still function. I've not seen detailed analysis of various methane peaks though.

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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #83 on: August 30, 2018, 03:38:42 PM »
May global CO2 is +2.6ppm over last year. Recent readings at Mauna Loa have shown a slowdown in losses over the past several weeks, causing the global/ML differential to close up. ML is running at +2.4ppm on the last weekly.

We are about 3-4 weeks from the minimum. Last year's low point was the last week of Sept and bottomed out at about 402.7 on the weeklies. Will be interesting to see if we stay above 405 this year.

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« Reply #84 on: August 30, 2018, 04:20:02 PM »
No no no. CO2 is plant food and the planet is greening... So more plants = more oxygen so there can't be less oxygen!!

I'm pulling your leg. It's a common climate change denier argument.

The more greening part is correct though.

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« Reply #85 on: August 30, 2018, 05:00:39 PM »
No no no. CO2 is plant food and the planet is greening... So more plants = more oxygen so there can't be less oxygen!!

I'm pulling your leg. It's a common climate change denier argument.

The more greening part is correct though.
We sure are seeing a lot of green algae so that's a good thing. I hope we can double the size and number of dead zones if we can just pump a few more gigatons of CO2 into the oceans.
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« Reply #86 on: August 30, 2018, 05:19:57 PM »
It's not just algae.  "Global greening" is a real thing, even if it's also gleefully misused in propaganda by deniers (I've spent way too much time on another forum arguing about this).

From the NY Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/science/climate-change-plants-global-greening.html

The Arctic is also both greening and "shrubifying" at a rapid pace, mostly due to warmth rather than CO2:

https://www.arctictoday.com/shrubification-mean-arctic/

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-studies-details-of-a-greening-arctic

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« Reply #87 on: August 30, 2018, 05:31:58 PM »
No no no. CO2 is plant food and the planet is greening... So more plants = more oxygen so there can't be less oxygen!!

I'm pulling your leg. It's a common climate change denier argument.

The more greening part is correct though.


We sure are seeing a lot of green algae so that's a good thing. I hope we can double the size and number of dead zones if we can just pump a few more gigatons of CO2 into the oceans.

Algae growth is more due to pollution of the waterways and not CO2. Why look only at the negative side of things? The greening of the world is a positive thing.

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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #88 on: August 30, 2018, 06:20:01 PM »
https://cosmosmagazine.com/geoscience/a-phytoplankton-vortex-in-the-baltic-sea



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In recent years, the proliferation of algae blooms in the Baltic Sea has led to the regular appearance of “dead zones” in the basin. Phytoplankton and cyanobacteria consume the abundant nutrients in the Baltic—fueled in part by past and current runoff from sewage and agriculture—and reproduce in such vast numbers that their growth and decay deplete the oxygen content of the water. According to researchers from Finland’s University of Turku, the dead zone this year is estimated to span about 70,000 square kilometres.

A research team from Finland and Germany reported this month that oxygen levels in recent years in the Baltic Sea are at their lowest levels in the past 1500 years. More frequent and massive blooms, combined with warming seas due to climate change, are making it harder for fish and other marine life to thrive in this basin.
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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #89 on: August 31, 2018, 12:00:43 AM »
Recent readings at Mauna Loa have shown a slowdown in losses over the past several weeks.
The Kilauea eruption has stopped for the past several weeks.

Well, not completely stopped. There was still a lava lake in Leilani and lava entering the ocean until recently, but the lava river down to Kapoho dried up several weeks ago.
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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #90 on: September 04, 2018, 03:10:39 AM »
Recent readings at Mauna Loa have shown a slowdown in losses over the past several weeks.
The Kilauea eruption has stopped for the past several weeks.

Well, not completely stopped. There was still a lava lake in Leilani and lava entering the ocean until recently, but the lava river down to Kapoho dried up several weeks ago.

This theory of volcano emissions affecting measurements at Mauna Loa has cropped up several times in this thread. However, due to the persistent tropical trade wind inversion that is nearly always present, volcano emissions rarely make it to the altitude of the monitoring station. The inversion resists upward vertical motion, making it so that only more significant explosive eruptions on the flanks can cause gasses to penetrate to higher altitudes.

At any rate, adjustments are made for any local outgassing that can make it to the observing station on the north slope of the mountain.

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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #91 on: September 06, 2018, 06:02:24 AM »
August came in at 406.99 ppm.  1.92 ppm year-over-year change.  The running 12-month growth rate is at its lowest level since 2012.  Rates didn't take off until ~October 2015 so impacts from ENSO are still a month or 2 away.

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« Reply #92 on: September 06, 2018, 08:45:34 AM »
Thanks wolfpack513  for the update.

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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #93 on: September 08, 2018, 04:56:53 PM »
Recent Daily Average Mauna Loa CO2
September 07:     403.97 ppm

Will it remain as a valid data point and will it be the lowest reading since Nov 2017 and last as that for a long time?

We are about 3-4 weeks from the minimum. Last year's low point was the last week of Sept and bottomed out at about 402.7 on the weeklies. Will be interesting to see if we stay above 405 this year.

Was this on daily, weekly or monthly basis?

No for daily seems likely, if not already established. Likely yes for monthly and the question was presumably really about weekly which seems an open question.
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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #94 on: September 18, 2018, 09:30:13 PM »
Early bottom this year?  The last weekly(9th-15th) was 405.39 ppm.  A few days from now may give us a better idea. 

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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #95 on: September 18, 2018, 11:02:09 PM »
Early bottom this year?  The last weekly(9th-15th) was 405.39 ppm.  A few days from now may give us a better idea.
Scripps has slightly different values. I like that they have a variety of graphs for different time spans. Same possibility though, Goodbye < 405 ppm minimum (weekly and monthly?)
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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #96 on: September 25, 2018, 03:33:18 AM »
Mauna Loa weekly CO2 value came in at 405.69 ppm.   Up 2.53 ppm from this week last year.  It is also higher than the last 2 weeks so it's possible that we hit our annual minimum.  Still too early to know.

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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #97 on: September 25, 2018, 12:54:01 PM »
Minimum is more likely reached than not...

https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/weekly.html

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Re: 2018 Mauna Loa CO2 levels
« Reply #98 on: September 28, 2018, 01:29:24 AM »
Minimum is more likely reached than not...

https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/weekly.html

First 4 days of this week average 405.50 ppm.  Lower than last week but higher than the minimum.  Of course the last 3 days could change this but I agree, minimum likely reached.

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« Reply #99 on: September 29, 2018, 06:52:00 AM »
Thanks for the laugh, I needed it.
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