2020 declines in carbon emissions were staggering. Can we keep it that way?

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1. Really?

I didn't notice.

Neither, it would seem, did the atmosphere.

Weekly average CO2 at Mauna Loa

Week beginning on April 11, 2021: 418.96 ppm
Weekly value from 1 year ago: 416.44 ppm
Weekly value from 10 years ago: 393.61 ppm
Last updated: April 22, 2021

Of course, this article from MSN comes with the requisite pictures of a one time desert wilderness filled with huge steel posts supporting the nacelles of greasy wind turbines all of which are connected by roads for servicing with diesel trucks, and all need redundant copper and lanthanide magnets connected to turbines turned by burning dangerous natural gas and dumping the gas waste directly into the atmosphere.

In 20 years, all of those wind turbines will be rotting hulks, and the plastic coatings that peeled off the blades will be strewn to the wind across the desert where surviving birds can chew on them.

I'm glad that they attach a completely irrelevant picture - since presumably the wind turbines had nothing to do with millions of people dying around the world from Covid causing shut downs - so we can all play happy face and pretend we give a rat's ass about the future.

Of course, if we did care about the future - we don't - we wouldn't spend quite so much time lying to ourselves, but hey, don't worry, be happy.

By the end of May, we will see 420 ppm at Mauna Loa or damned close to it, this less than 10 years after we first hit 400 ppm, this ten year period being at the wrong end of the claim that so called "renewable energy" would save the world.

It didn't.

It isn't saving the world, even with people huddled in their homes in a fear of plague.

It won't save the world.