Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere just hit a ‘depressing’ record high

Burnin that  oil

Record high…. So far

Every time that CO2 breaks a record, a conservative gets a boner.

There is happy news. All the increased global electricity demand in 2025 was meet by added renewables! Total carbon emissions even went down (emissions not carbon in the atmosphere)! https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/global-electricity-review-2026/

432 PPM. If you were wondering. Remember not that long about people were talking about how us hitting 350 ppm was likely going to be a tipping point. GG people. G G.

*Although the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has continued to rise, there was a reduction in U.S. emissions in 2023 and 2024. That trend, however, was reversed in 2025, at least partially because of the increased electricity demand from artificial intelligence data centers.* Remember this next time some politician asks for your sacrifice in the name of climate change. 

So how long until we have water wars and the mad max future?

Don't think of it as the highest so far, think of it as the lowest for the rest of your life.

This is not record high, but the lowest level in the next 1 million years and the start of our cataclysmic dying out. Just to put it in the right perspective.

Natural gas powered data centres — so hot right now.

Eh, what's the worst that can happen... Oh God, we're so fucked...

Reminder that CO2 levels begin to measurably impair cognitive function at around 1000ppm and significantly by 1400ppm. Even though these levels might seem like a long way off from the present ~435ppm outdoor concentration, they can already be hit indoors with poor ventilation, and it's only going to get more difficult.

Thank the selfish, narcissistic, deluded war lords for this. To be clear, Trump, Putin and Netanyahu. F****** dicks

I think everyone understands now that we’re going to experience whatever the worst case CO2 scenario whether we want to or not. COVID showed us that people have become so blindly ignorant and selfish that they won’t take the tiniest action for an amorphous “greater good” any longer, if indeed they ever would. We are damned and we richly deserve it. To the handful of people that cared and the species that will suffer alongside us, you deserved better.

I have seen spaceballs. I should invest in canned oxygen.

And all the corporations that are run by a bunch of old rich, shitheads who will be dead and gone anyway, deserve all of the blame.

Rising gas prices = renewables go brrrrr Die oil

Maybe they should de regulate more and see how bad it can get.

fun fuct: Most CO2 sensors and air quality measuring devices you get as a consumer automatically calibrate themselves on the assumption that fresh air equals 400 ppm of CO2. This new record if for an average of 431 ppm. This might mean very little considering the point were in door air get bad people start having trouble to concentrate being at 800 to 1000 ppm and people really get drowzy and shouldn't work anymore at 1500 to 2000 ppm, but it means measurements are already off even in the freshest of airs.

I am so glad I don't have kids. And conservatives wonder why people aren't having enough kids so that their wealthy kids will have people to clean up after them. That's just before the rapture of course. /s

Trump: That is because of Iran and not accepting that I'm a very tough guy. I'm a very tough guy, I get along with tough guys, oil is for tough guys. Wind is for wokes. I'm not woke, I'm a tough guy

Plants: lovin it!

WAR, war is ever changing.

Yeah, it's over. The alternative is a reduction in the quality of life of everyone on the planet. That will never happen. Nobody is willing to give up anything. Climate activism stops at a Twitter post. No real actions are ever taken. Oh wait, Joe over there made a sign out of cardboard with a clever slogan and took it to a rally in his town. I'm sure that'll do a lot of good. To stop climate change, a complete reversal of the global way of life is needed. I'm not talking about driving a hybrid gas/electric car. I'm talking about massively limiting electricity in your house, limited internet, not burning fuel for recreational travel, banning all air travel. No more deliveries to your house. You buy what is at the store nearest you, and that's it. Nothing in the store came from more than a few miles of the store. We all live a life where c**** plastic shit we don't need leaves a factory in China, gets put on a boat to travel halfway around the world, then driven to you. And we all think that's normal, and there's some magic other way to reverse climate change. There isn't. It's over. Whatever happens will happen. With the nukes still hanging around, the resource wars raging for decades already (oil now, water soon), things ain't looking too great. I'm an optimist though, and I figure humans will figure some sort of existence out. But I am not so sure that will include what we consider a normal life here in 2026.

It's only gonna get worse as we keep growing. We've got 6 billion people more now than we did seventy years ago and no one is even remotely ready to talk about population control bills.

It's still not too late to meet Paris goals. The science is clear. We need climate lockdowns. Now.

It's almost like the EPA has been dismantled, and all the manufacturers have reverted to late 60s polluting again.

Gotta pump them numbers up! We can do better!

Sooo were F’d??

Since the Republicans started talking... so much hot air.

summer so hot rn

Depressing as eff.

Do they ever come down?

New data centers have put phasing out coal on hold.

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere just hit a ‘depressing’ new record These data come from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Mauna Loa Observatory, which may soon be shut down because of proposed government budget cuts The amount of carbon dioxide detected in the atmosphere hit a record high in April. CO2 levels averaged about 431 parts per million (ppm) over that month, according to data collected at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. Greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, are measured as a proportion of the total atmosphere. The numbers are presented as the number of molecules of a particular gas out of a million total molecules, or ppm. Climate scientist Zachary Labe of Climate Central, a nonprofit that researches climate change, says the new record is “depressing” but not unexpected. “It’s just another sign that carbon dioxide continues to increase in our atmosphere as our planet continues to warm,” he says. “For many climate scientists, this is just ‘here it is again, another record in the wrong direction.’” Labe explains that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere tends to peak in April each year as decaying plants release greenhouse gases after winter. Some of that CO2 gets reabsorbed by plants as they grow during the warmer months. But NOAA’s data show a worrying trend, with the average monthly amount of CO2 steadily increasing. The Mauna Loa Observatory has been directly observing atmospheric CO2 and keeping record of its levels for the longest out of any other U.S. facility. Mauna Loa first began keeping track of the gas’s presence in the atmosphere in 1958. That year the April level of CO2 was under 320 ppm. The record comes as the observatory faces the risk of having its funding cut. A budget proposal on NOAA’s website for the 2027 fiscal year, which begins in October 2026, proposes cutting funding to numerous climate monitoring facilities, including Mauna Loa. Other methods can trace carbon levels in the atmosphere further back in history. For example, climatologists can analyze small bubbles of gas trapped in ice cores to study the Earth’s atmosphere hundreds of thousands of years ago. On its website, NOAA cites analyses that show that, in pre-industrial-revolution times, atmospheric CO2 was at 280 ppm or less. Even during interglacial periods, when Earth trended toward warmer temperatures and higher CO2 levels, the amount of the gas in the atmosphere seemed to have topped out at around 300 ppm. Although the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has continued to rise, there was a reduction in U.S. emissions in 2023 and 2024. That trend, however, was reversed in 2025, at least partially because of the increased electricity demand from artificial intelligence data centers. Still, Labe says there are reasons for optimism as the use of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind expands.

13 year til climate collapse.

Too bad we can't invent a tree leaf... 6 to 1 carbon capture... But we put a 2.5 BILLION HELICOPTER ON MARS, remotely controlled from EARTH. Artificial chloroplasts invented, but no one wants plain coal. I mean, who makes money on coal? So make more fuel and combust it back into the air. Fools Create a leaf, artificial tree, create glucose, convert to starch, sell it. Starch market doubling over next ten years....

Every time I see an article about co2 and climate change, I remember [this video](https://youtu.be/i4Hnv_ZJSQY) and get all pissed off again

Darn now we gotta raise taxes. That’ll fix the problem.

But Windmils are a threat to national security.

No wonder my plants are doing so well. Bumper harvest of crops.

Global human overpopulation

At this point I can't do anything about it.

thats ok you won't hear this bad news once the observatory is gone

This is why you don't elect climate change denial idiots. Or allow greedy oligarchs to have political power.

Maybe this is why everybody has apparently lost their mind.

Yep and we're not even way half passed this century yet. It make me so happy and filled with hope how we treat our planet; like a western's public bathroom.

Man, it’s almost like old people don’t give a f*** about the environment

At this point just burned the whole f****** thing down. Take capitalism with it.

But it’s been declared that it is not a pollutant, so take that liberals. /s

Sometimes I feel like the only way to really reduce emissions is to do something crazy like cutting off the Hormuz strait. That would be insane though, and would lead to a lot more suffering.

But I’ve been riding my bicycle !!

Woot! I cant wait to see what mother nature does. Seriously. And it's not like anyone can get mad at her... What are you going to do? Punch a rock? Yell at a tree? Maybe wish they weren't making lots o movies about bees dying. I can't wait.

Line goes up means capitalism is winning!

I, for one, have started drastically reducing my (hybrid) car use, relying almost entirely on public transport to move around the city. Except to go the gym, because suburban connections suck major ass.

Well are we doing something so it doesn't? Cause last I checked we are still fighting over oil...

Bombing oil refineries and leveling whole cities may be a cause eventually?

But , but the electric cars and solar power and wind and and...

They will always be hitting a record high by definition

Because we're winning, right?!

Lets ask AI what to do about it

Let’s start a new war.

More energy, more power, more advance intellenge… and then?

We got to see that reenactment of the [Induan ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induan)time periode. 15% O2 in the air will only be a problem for liberal pricks and foreigners.

Record high so far

Great...after we fixed the ozone holes...we just keep doing more damage.

Can’t wait for acid rain, thick, gross air, just like my 80’s childhood in LA!

La situazione peggiorerà, non si è mai fatto niente per migliorarla (mi riferisco nel concentro non tanto sulla carta). Adesso c'è ne preoccupiamo quando avremo dovuto farlo prima. Purtroppo ho una visione molto negativa su ciò e credo fortemente che prima di intervenire toccheremo il fondo. Infatti secondo me, arriveremo a un punto in cui c' è ne renderemo conto e obbligati anche dalle circostanze inizieremo ad agire.

Burn baby, burn baby

Drill baby drill

Hooray!

Continue to recycle your yogurt cups and keep your existential anxiety up up up thinking you somehow can swim against the current.

Equivalent concentration: 1000 L of pee in an olympic sized swimming pool. (2.5 ML).

Oh I remember when we were below the 400 ppm line and what a big event it was to know that we had surpassed it. Now we have the same levels as 3 to 4 million years ago. Literally our species has never lived in a world like this. It truly makes many of us feel hopeless

If the CO2 was in a form we could see, like an elephant, people would be more alarmed. 50 billion elephants extra and millions more adding every second would make mankind pause. But they can’t see it and their media is owned by people who don’t care. Climate disaster won’t touch the billionaires. They have bigger than WW2 cruiser sized yachts so they can live anywhere. But fixing it, that will make them slightly less rich and that they won’t stand for. Cutting back (going all electric) won’t do now, only capture and I mean giga ton scale capture, is the only way to save mankind. Most wild species are already going to be extinct in a decade. But at least old fat white guys got rich.

No, it didn’t

Told you in 1990. First warning that climate change hits, you’re going to start breathing less oxygen and more carbon dioxide (carbon dioxide is the highest primary gas that comes from burning oil and coal). Don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure that one out, but it will be the first sign. Second is highest rate of respiratory issues in health.

The Reptiles that run the planet need CO levels higher so they can flourish.