You know 350.org, whose name was created as a reference to the number of atmospheric carbon dioxide parts per million we should have as a goal for a habitable climate?
You know how the number of atmospheric carbon dioxide parts per million is reported to be going up each year?
In 2024, the average over the year was 424 parts per million.
You may also know that the measurements of those carbon dioxide levels are made at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawai’i.
Well, the Trump administration is now planning to cancel the lease of the lab that manages those readings (Washington Post gift link). The observatory itself is not on the list, but the Global Monitoring Laboratory is and the lab's staff maintains the observatory.
Data collected from Mauna Loa have been key to human understanding of global climate change since Charles David Keeling started recording atmospheric concentrations of CO2 atop the volcano in the late 1950s, the first known effort to measure the planet-warming gas over the long term.
A chart of those observations, now known as the Keeling Curve, is considered among the most reliable and sound data on greenhouse gas concentrations because the Mauna Loa Observatory is so far from the influences of any major pollution sources.
They hate facts — we already knew that — especially about climate change.
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