Greenhouse gas miscellany

Greenhouse gas emission levels go up and up (and up)

Here is the latest data from CAMS (Copernicus) - from 9 days ago.

I worry when they get so behind with the data. It does not appaly to ANY of the other data sets..

Calculations indicate an increase of 4 ppb methane over 7 days

"I have been tracking methane Metop 1 and Metop 2 satellite data over the past 7 days. 

"Taking an average of both satellites am and pm shows an increase of 4 ppb.

"I have projected this rate of increase onto the NOAA graph and will continue to monitor the situation"

Combined greenhouse emissions stand at 760 pp,Co2 equiveilent

This figure is not new but cannot be repeated often enough

If you multiply 2000 ppb that by the Global Heating Potential of Methane and we have 340 ppm of CO2e. Add that to the 420 ppm of CO2 and we are up to 760 ppm CO2e.

There lies the rub. - we have 720 ppm CO2 equivilent.

Methane emissions in Antarctica

Joe Neubarth has posted the following from NOAA in which he points out emissions from Antarctica

This shows data from CAMS.  Whilst emissions look low, but emissions of 1750-1800 ppm are not exactly low!

Winter Sea ice extent are lowest

Someone else's opinion - mine also.

"Considering Arctic ice growth is days away from reaching its usual peak, this looks like it could well be the year that it’s gone by the end of the melt"

411.66PPM: SCIENTISTS ALARMED BY EARLY RISE IN ATMOSPHERIC CO2

We had something like that last year and despite EVERYTHING looking like a blue ocean event we ended up with something that was (seemingly) far from that.

I personally believe ice nucleation explains how this is possible

I received the following photograph from Dane Wigington with this note:

"Sea surface chemical nucleation is very visible in portions of this image. The desperate attempts of dying empires to mask cryosphere implosion from populations till the last possible moment.

"We are truly in uncharted territory now,"