From a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) press release titled “Carbon dioxide levels continue at record levels, despite COVID-19 lockdown,” comes this statement about the effects of carbon dioxide (CO2) reductions during the COVID-19 lockdown:
“Preliminary estimates indicate a reduction in the annual global emission between 4.2% and 7.5%. At the global scale, an emissions reduction this scale will not cause atmospheric CO2 to go down. CO2 will continue to go up, though at a slightly reduced pace (0.08-0.23 ppm per year lower).
“This falls well within the 1 ppm natural inter-annual variability. This means that on the short-term, the impact [of CO2 reduction] of the COVID-19 confinements cannot be distinguished from natural variability…”
Let this sink in: The WMO admits reduced carbon dioxide emissions are having no effect on climate that is distinguishable from natural variability.
The WMO acknowledges that after our global economic lockdown, where CO2 emissions from travel, industry, and power generation were all curtailed, there wasn’t any measurable difference in global atmospheric CO2 levels. Zero, zilch, none, nada.
Of course, we already knew this and wrote about it on Climate at a Glance: Coronavirus Impact on CO2 Levels.
An analysis by climate scientist Dr. Roy Spencer showed that despite crashing economies and large cutbacks in travel, industry, and energy generation, climate scientists have yet to find any hint of a drop in atmospheric CO2 levels.
The curve kept advancing in an upward trajectory despite the lockdown, as seen in the graph below provided by Dr. Spencer:
Can you imagine the kind of extreme global economic lockdown that would be required to flatten the atmospheric CO2 curve?
No nation or its people could tolerate the draconian reductions that would be required to significantly change the upward trajectory of global CO2 levels.
Climate alarmists have repeatedly suggested that the COVID-19 lockdown is a trial run for a climate lockdown.
I suspect they were hoping the CO2 curve would respond to the COVID-19 lockdown in a way they could present as “proof” that a viable path to a dramatically lower CO2 trajectory was within reach.
But the global experiment in economic reduction failed to produce any atmospheric CO2 change at all.
But now, with the WMO officially weighing in, we’ve seen proof that the kind of extreme lifestyle cutbacks climate alarmists are proposing won’t make any measurable difference at all.
Clearly, despite the belief that we can “manage global climate just by changing our lifestyles,” the Earth continues unabated on its path of natural variability without a hint that humans can affect it.
We’ve said before that Reversing Trump’s Commonsense Climate Policies Would Be a Nightmare for America, and this is the strongest indicator yet that economic misery in the name of “saving the planet” is a pointless exercise in futility.
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Isn’t Mauna Loa directly downwind of China? Not too surprising that there’s been an increase in CO2 there. And the graph makes it look as though the 2015-2021 increase has been 1500% rather than 3.9%
The whole United Nations is a scam it has never been for World Peace its all about World Government all under their rule and using their Blue Helmets to enforce their rules
What a surprise, NOT. If we know anything from history is that the planet cools and warms without our help. It is cyclic we have had the Roman Warming Period and the Medieval Warming Period. There was no SUVs, no “fossil”fuels, no air conditioners etc, etc. Yet the forces of nature swung one way then another. A gaggle of Communists are not going to change it either.
Great post.
Thank you Anthony.
My 2 cents on this issue
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/11/21/the-case-against-fossil-fuels/
The UN Treaties just Push for World Government all under the UN its never been about Peace just World Control and the control of our lies 24\7 Agenda 21
No amount of proof that fossil fuel usage reductions do not have any effect on the World’s climate will convince those who adhere to the climate change religion that such reductions are pointless.