Carbon Dioxide emissions are crucial to address when concerning climate change and global warming. Industrial Revolutions have been occurring for about 200 years and are still happening in countries today. Carbon emissions contribute to the overall heating of the Earth, the IPCC has made goals to try to limit heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius over the pre-industrial level. If our emissions continue on the trend they’re on we will pass by the 1.5-degree mark quickly. According to the Mauna Loa Record Keeling Curve in 1960 the carbon concentration levels were at about 315ppm fast forward to 2020 where it reached about 415ppm. That’s an overall change of 100ppm, 32% increase, growth factor of 1.32, and an average rate of change of 1.67ppm/yr. It’s difficult to enforce and make policies to ensure fair and equal emission standards. There’s a lot of debate over levels and who should be held responsible for the emissions and countries have to be able to industrialize as well. But there is a lot of promise in the renewable energy field. Many innovations, jobs, and decreased use of carbon would result in helping decrease the concentration levels from contributing to the warming of the Earth.
https://scrippsco2.ucsd.edu/graphics_gallery/mauna_loa_record/mauna_loa_record.html
I really like this post and how you incorporated the keeling curve into it. I think it is a very important to include these values, and I like how straightforward and understandable the information is. Thanks!
This reminds me of the Paris Climate Agreement and how countries have made ‘pacts’ to reduce GHG emissions globally, but it begs the question of how realistic these goals are. Utilizing forms of renewable energy is such a good way to do this!
I completely agree with your point that country needs to be able to industrialise as well. We learned in from the 3 bubbles for sustainability that 1) economic growth 2)environmental protection and 3)standard of living. We shouldn’t compromise countries of their ability to make a living through industrialisation