{"id":8580,"date":"2019-11-27T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8580"},"modified":"2019-11-27T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:56:00","slug":"carbon-dioxide-levels-new-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8580","title":{"rendered":"Carbon dioxide levels are at a new record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carbon dioxide levels are at a new record.\u00a0 That is the news from the World Metrological service over the last few days.\u00a0 The bad news is there does not seem to be any type of slowdown.\u00a0 Concentrations of other greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide also surged as well in 2018.\u00a0 Emissions have to peak soon or we will not hit the 1.5\u00b0C limit agreed at Paris.\u00a0 All the green house gas levels are way above pre-industrial levels (how do we know that &#8211; from a variety of methods including gases trapped in the polar ice cores).\u00a0\u00a0 Its worth pointing out that the last time CO<sub>2<\/sub> levels were this high the temperature was 2-3C warmer and the see levels were 10-20m higher.<\/p>\n<p>There is some good news, coal use has been plunging in some of the big emitters such as America and India and of course renewable energy is becoming cheaper than conventional energy sources.\u00a0\u00a0 We do seem thanks to the school climate strikes and extinction rebellion to have reached an important tipping point in Western public opinion.\u00a0 In the UK general election climate change is a now major issue with all the main parties making big policy announcements (Tories less than the others).\u00a0 This is all helped by crazy weather with heatwaves in summer and floods in winter and huge forest fires in Australia and California.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Me being cynical have always thought that the fact that carbon dioxide levels are at a new record would not be enough to shift public opinion and the West would only move when the effects of climate change struck close to home.\u00a0 This does seem to be happening, so overall I&#8217;m still hopeful, although far from complacent.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default alignnone\" title=\"Source WMO\" src=\"https:\/\/ane4bf-datap1.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wmocms\/s3fs-public\/ckeditor\/files\/carbone.png?dajwP6F57hS22UDVyVdSf0DH9HnxP.Wu\" alt=\"Carbon dioxide_2019\" width=\"498\" height=\"231\" data-delta=\"1\" data-fid=\"17655\" data-media-element=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carbon dioxide levels are at a new record.\u00a0 That is the news from the World Metrological service over the last few days.\u00a0 The bad news is there does not seem to be any type of slowdown.\u00a0 Concentrations of other greenhouse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8580\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-renewables"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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