CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/28875492

Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere soared by a record amount in 2024 to hit another high, UN data shows, deepening the climate crisis that is already taking lives and livelihoods across the world.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
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    11 days ago

    https://www.co2.earth/monthly-co2

    This is grossly understated, and 2024 is date. April 2025 peaked at 431ppm. 4ppm higher than 2024. Other months did have “more normal” 3ppm increases, But that is still over the last 10 year growth rate, which was higher than previous 10 year growth rate.

    Getting this growth to slow down is step 1 in long path to getting to 0 growth. Ukraine war and forest fires have offset any energy transition gains.

    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
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      11 days ago

      have offset any energy transition gains.

      There is no energy trnaisiton and never has been, we still burn wood, each enery use is just an addiiton to more and more energy conunption that ensures we consunes more and more resources.

      Sure, a little bit of renewables rationed per person used frugally and equitably may be answer but that has zeeo cjnave of success aside at the fringe.

      • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
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        11 days ago

        Some large markets have peaked their fossil fuel use. Only Europe has significant declines so far though.

        • fake_meows@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          10 days ago

          Most of the accounting for fossil fuel use specifically neglects to count the embedded fossil fuels in global trade. So many of the countries that deindustrialized or offshored heavy manufacturing are merely gaming the stats because they purchase manufacturing by coal powered nations and don’t count that in their domestic totals. Obviously that’s silly.

          • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
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            10 days ago

            Partially true. Certainly shipping from China is big emissions in of themselves. But China fossil electricity is down, even as they’ve grown electricity over 8% last 2 years. China is decarbonizing manufacturing. But EU electricity consumption rose slightly the last 2 years with 25%+ cummulative fossil fuel electricity generation declines.

            • fake_meows@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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              10 days ago

              Certainly shipping from China is big emissions in of themselves.

              Yeah, that’s also not counted, but it’s usually only 5% of the total Lifecycle energy inputs. The majority of the embedded energy costs are in things like mining, refining, machining, smelting, welding, making carbon fiber etc etc etc.

              None of the extraction and manufacturing of imported goods gets counted.

              When countries don’t do heavy manufacturing, don’t raise all their own food etc, they are striking absolutely staggering amounts of carbon and other pollution from their accounting. But that’s just fake. Their economy still produces that waste.

              But China fossil electricity is down, even as they’ve grown electricity over 8% last 2 years. China is decarbonizing manufacturing.

              Same exact trick. China outsources stuff like mining, machining etc now. China does the final assembly…

              That’s why global carbon isn’t slowing down.

              Everyone is playing the same shell games.

              A lot of environmentalists soemhow want to believe this and they blind themselves to what is really going on… That increasing reliance on technology and technical development doesn’t make the problem worse. There are no clean sustainable industrial processes. It doesnt much matter what tech you make, you make an indelible impact on the environment.

              • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
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                10 days ago

                When countries don’t do heavy manufacturing, don’t raise all their own food etc, they are striking absolutely staggering amounts of carbon and other pollution from their accounting. But that’s just fake. Their economy still produces that waste.

                For sure carbon accounting, needed for carbon tax and dividend, should have 100% of the “responsibility” on the consumer side, which works fine for imposing carbon tariffs on the exporting country, which get passed down to domestic consumer (who can afford to buy stuff because of dividend).

                China outsources stuff like mining, machining etc now. China does the final assembly…

                Mining can be global, but China does a lot of the refining and machining. At any rate, mining equipment getting electrified, and using vast land resources unusable for any other purposes surrounding mines for solar to power mining equipment is a great investment, and something to expect in near term as a vast growing sector.