Agreed. This year’s spike is due to the banning of sulfur-based emissions from shipping vessels in the pacific. Sulfur emissions only last about 2 weeks in the atmosphere before being rained out, but they contribute significantly to the aerosol cooling effect.
August 2023 : Hold my beer
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/27/coal-consumption-hit-an-all-time-high-in-2022-iea-says.html
There’s a slight misconception here, there’s a longer lag time between CO2 release and its effect on warming.
What I’m saying is that we’ve not even begun to see the worst effects of what we’ve already put into the atmosphere.
Next year is already forecast to be much worse. Mostly due to El Niño making things even worse.
Agreed. This year’s spike is due to the banning of sulfur-based emissions from shipping vessels in the pacific. Sulfur emissions only last about 2 weeks in the atmosphere before being rained out, but they contribute significantly to the aerosol cooling effect.