The final data's in: 2018 was the 4th worst year ever recorded at Mauna Loa for CO2 increases.
The annual growth rate for carbon dioxide increases has been reported, and 2018 came in as the 4th worst year for increases in carbon dioxide measured at the Mauna Loa Carbon Dioxide Observatory going back to 1959.
The increase was 2.68 ppm over 2017. The third worst year was 1998, when carbon dioxide concentrations rose 2.93 ppm.
The worst year ever recorded was 2015, when carbon dioxide concentrations increased by 3.05 ppm over 2014. The second worst was 2016, when carbon dioxide concentrations increased by 2.99 ppm over 2015.
For the 42 measurements recorded in the 20th century, from 1959 to 2000, 5 had an annual increase of 2.00 ppm in atmospheric carbon dioxide or greater. In the "percent talk" so popular among proponents of the so called "renewable energy" scheme, this is about 11.9%
For the 21st century, from 2001-2018, 11 of the 18 measurements increase by 2.00 ppm or more, or in "percent talk," 61.1% exceeded 2.00 ppm growth in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
If any of this concerns you, don't worry be happy.
In that offshore oil and gas hellhole, Denmark, they are adding wave power to the 9,422 wind turbines they'd built as of last May (the last time I checked the database), "only" 3,232 of which had been decommisioned as of that time.
In 25 years or less, all of the "wave power" machines in Denmark and elsewhere will have tranformed into the stuff reported in this scientific paper: Small Microplastics As a Main Contributor to Plastic Mass Balance in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre (Alexandra ter Halle et al, Environ. Sci. Technol., 2019, 53 (3), pp 1157–1164.
Don't worry, be happy.
No one should be compelled to read "science," when we can read happy horseshit about so called "renewable energy" on the internet.
Since 2004, the world has "invested" approximately 2.3 trillion dollars on so called "renewable energy."
This information is here, in the UNEP Frankfurt School Report, issued each year: Global Trends In Renewable Energy Investment, 2018
It's working just great isn't it?
In the year 2017, the combined wind, solar, marine, and geothermal energy scheme grew by 1.21 exajoules.
The use of dangerous natural gas (including that mined in the North Sea by Denmark) grew by 4.19 exajoules to 130.08 exajoules; petroleum by 1.97 exajoules, to 185.68 exjoules.
World energy demand was 584.98 exajoules.
Combined, after 50 years of world wide cheering, the wind, solar, geothermal and marine production of energy has reached 10.63 exajoules.
2018 Edition of the World Energy Outlook Table 1.1 Page 38 (I have converted MTOE in the original table to the SI unit exajoules in this text.)
We're doing just great. Just wonderful.
I wish you a pleasant Sunday.
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