Carbon Dioxide Just Took an Ominous, Record-Breaking Jump | The world’s gold standard CO2 observatory just experienced its biggest year-over-year increase.
Carbon Dioxide Just Took an Ominous, Record-Breaking Jump | The world’s gold standard CO2 observatory just experienced its biggest year-over-year increase.
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El Niño doesn't contribute to co2 rise. Why lead with this? It makes it sound like some of it at least isn't humans fault, which is false.
Multiple factors, then mentions factors that don't contribute....
I could imagine that el niño can contribute to CO² emmissions indirectly.
Maybe there are in an el niño year more wildfires happening compared to other years for example, which would release additional CO². Or maybe swamps get less water or a combination of several el niño weather effects.
This is true only in a climate already above pre industrial age co2 levels. Human activities are what caused it to now amplify the fires etc, which is the positive feedback we're now trapped in (caused by us).
I'm not denying that humanity is responsible for all the climate mess we are in. I'm saying that I can imagine el niño having higher than average CO² releases due to the weather effect it brings looking at a single year, not the climate 30 years.
Of course we humans brought not only ourselves but the vast majority of life into an crisis that seems now to run off. I am very pessimistic about the future as I see still no meaningful reply to this.
Still I find it plausible that in an el niño year there could be more than average CO² emmissions while neutral or la niña years could have less, so they would cancel each other out. If that is so, it would merely be on top of human made emissions, which are still higher than ever.
However, we're probably at a point now where one can't say anything for sure, because no human being has ever experienced 427 ppm CO² and the whole system has an inertia. With this sentence I don't want to say that scientists work not well. I want to say that it is much harder to come to a conclusion to values that have never been seen before compared to data that we can compare with historic data.
Of course that doesn't mean that we can't blame fossil fuel use, because humans emissions are the ones we control most and if we want to continue our lives than we need to stop emmitting.