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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

COVID-19 Lockdowns = CO2 Levels Hit Record High ?

New figures from 
the Mauna Loa (CO2) 
Observatory show 
humans are irrelevant ?

Global CO2 hit 417ppm. 

This is a record high
since measurement 
began there in 1958.

The world failed to beak 
the rising CO2 trend 
despite the global 
lockdown

Two months of significantly 
reduced human activity 
did not make a dent 
in the CO2 level.


“People may be surprised 
to hear that the response 
to the coronavirus outbreak 
hasn’t done more to influence 
CO2 levels,” Ralph Keeling, 
a geochemist who runs 
the Scripps Oceanography
 CO2 program, said 
in a statement.

Daily emissions of CO2 
were cut by 17% (average)
worldwide in early April, 
but as COVID-19 lockdowns 
eased, the fall in emissions 
for the year as a whole 
is likely to be only 
between 4% and 7% 
compared to 2019.

Large month-to-month 
variations in natural CO2 
sources and sinks
make it difficult to see 
a downturn in the 
anthropogenic 
(man made)
source of CO2
unless 
it was very large, 
perhaps over 50%, 
and prolonged, 
perhaps over a year.

The increase of atmospheric 
CO2 during the COVID shutdown, 
when man‘s emissions of CO2 
were sharply reduced, 
was almost *indistinguishable* 
from the CO2 increase 
in the preceding year, 
when man’s emissions 
of CO2 were much greater.