The State of Our Climate
The State of Our Climate System
The site for vital climate data in monthly images
ACCELERATING PLANETARY EMERGENCY SIGNS
The site for vital climate data in monthly images
ACCELERATING PLANETARY EMERGENCY SIGNS
Atmospheric
greenhouse gases
2019
CO2 411 ppm
CH4 1875 ppb
N2O 332.5 ppb
greenhouse gases
2019
CO2 411 ppm
CH4 1875 ppb
N2O 332.5 ppb
Already committed future warming
and climate change
The radiative heat forcing of today's atmospheric GHGs (above) commits the world to a global warming of 1.5C by 2030-2040 (IPCC AR5 WG1 Figure 11.6) and full equilibrium warming of 2.0C.
'The current RF(radiative forcing) from GHGs maintained indefinitely (i.e., the commitment from constant greenhouse gas concentrations) would correspond to approximately 2°C warming.' (IPCC AR5 WG1 12.5.4.2)
and climate change
The radiative heat forcing of today's atmospheric GHGs (above) commits the world to a global warming of 1.5C by 2030-2040 (IPCC AR5 WG1 Figure 11.6) and full equilibrium warming of 2.0C.
'The current RF(radiative forcing) from GHGs maintained indefinitely (i.e., the commitment from constant greenhouse gas concentrations) would correspond to approximately 2°C warming.' (IPCC AR5 WG1 12.5.4.2)
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Atmospheric CO2 is at a 3-5 million year and rising at an
unprecedented rate)
unprecedented rate)
and possibly at a 20 milliion year high
(Sc.Am. Mar 2015)
(Sc.Am. Mar 2015)
2000-2015
The 1992 UN climate change convention requires safe levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases
Mar 2016 Nature The terrestrial biosphere as a net source of greenhouse gases
April 2019
EARTH GHG EMERGENCY
> All GHG emissions increasing fast
> All GHG emissions increasing fast
> CO2 emissions accelerating
> All atmospheric GHGs increasing fast
> Accelerating atmospheric CO2
> Accelerating global surface warming
> Accelerating ocean heat
> Accelerating ocean acidification
> Accelerating ocean de-oxygenation
> All atmospheric GHGs increasing fast
> Accelerating atmospheric CO2
> Accelerating global surface warming
> Accelerating ocean heat
> Accelerating ocean acidification
> Accelerating ocean de-oxygenation
2017 Atmospheric CO2 Equivalent 493 ppm
CO2
CH4
N2O
March 2019 WMO State of the Climate in 2018
Accelerating atmospheric CO2 at a 3-5 million year high, has been increasing at a rate over "the past 70 years of nearly 100 times larger than that at the end of the last ice age ... such abrupt changes in the atmospheric levels of CO2 have never before been seen".
WMO Oct 2017
WMO Oct 2017
Global Carbon Project 2017 fossil fuel CO2 emissions increased and close to the worst case scenario
NASA
2017
Accelerating atmospheric CO2
Surging methane 1750-Sept 2018
Surging methane 1750-Sept 2018
Bulletin of the
American Meteorology
Society. 2017 Global Climate System State
American Meteorology
Society. 2017 Global Climate System State
D.
CO2 2019
METHANE 2019
March 2019
20 May 2019.
This equals and beats the 2016 record with the big El Nino
1st 5 months of 2019 record atmospheic CO2 growth rate