WMO: Carbon dioxide levels increase by record amount to new highs in 2024. Really!

Schock! Laughable! We are talking here about parts per million! Plant some more trees!

The data only goes back to 1957 (like the first satellite Sputnik)! What a joke! What if there was more CO2 in the atmosphere in the first half of the 20th century!

Just look at the chart below. It is almost pure demagoguery! This sharp increase is due to manipulation of scale etc.. What does it actually mean that CO2 increased from about 340 to about 430 parts per million between 1985 and 2025? E.g. were the global measurements in 1985 as accurate as they are now? I doubt it!

What about world population? In 1957, it was around 2.9 billion, in 2025 it is about 8.2 billion. Every human breathes CO2! Maybe we all should stop breathing a few minutes a day?

For "methane and nitrous oxide", the WMO does not even bother to provide quantitative results in their summary!

"The WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin said continued emissions of CO2 from human activities and an upsurge from wildfires were responsible, as well as reduced CO2 absorption by “sinks” such as land ecosystems and the ocean – in what threatens to be a vicious climate cycle.  

Growth rates of CO2 have tripled since the 1960s, accelerating from an annual average increase of 0.8 ppm per year to 2.4 ppm per year in the decade from 2011 to 2020. From 2023 to 2024, the global average concentration of CO2 surged by 3.5 ppm, the largest increase since modern measurements started in 1957. ...

Concentrations of methane and nitrous oxide – the second and third most important long-lived greenhouse gases related to human activities – have also risen to record levels. ...

Key messages

• CO2 impacts climate today and for many centuries [???] 
• Concerns mount about carbon sinks like forests and oceans 
• Rising temperatures are accompanied by more extreme weather
• Strengthened monitoring is vital to inform action

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Carbon dioxide levels increase by record amount to new highs in 2024 "Carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere soared by a record amount to new highs in 2024, committing the planet to more long-term temperature increase, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)."

Globally averaged CO2 concentration (a) and its growth rate (b) from 1984 to 2024. Increases in successive annual means are shown as the shaded columns in (b). The red line in (a) is the monthly mean with the seasonal variation removed; the blue dots and blue line in (a) depict the monthly averages. Observations from 179 stations were used for this analysis.