Apparently, those CRU emails and documents have freaked the United Nations out a bit, along with what Climate Alarmist George Monbiot had to say, so, it’s alarmist press release time, picked up breathlessly by all sorts of media outlets
Concentrations of greenhouse gases, the major cause of global warming, are at their highest levels ever recorded and are still climbing, the U.N. World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said on Monday.
The head of the agency, Michel Jarraud, said the trend could be pushing the world towards the most pessimistic assessments of the rise in temperatures expected in coming decades and said this underlined the need for urgent action.
EVERYBODY PANIC! WE’RE ALL GONNA D……… oh, wait a moment
Something seems wrong. CO2 keeps going up, but, there are all those strange fluctuations in the temperature. Heck, the temps even go down. Should a greenhouse gas, which, by definition, traps solar rays causing the Earth to heat up, cause the temps to go down? Weird, huh?
Interestingly, the UN press release says the CO2 concentration is at 385.2 ppm, with a huge jump of .2 ppm in 2008. Quite a few outlets say 388. Some say 384.38. So, what is the concentration? Eh, doesn’t matter. Even if it is going up, it doesn’t appear to correlate to actual temperature.