2010: The Year That Was in Energy
Did you resolve last January that 2010 would be the harbinger of a new low-carbon world?
Sorry, the statistics for 2010 are coming in, and it’s pretty clear it did not happen. Let’s take a look.
A Hot Time on the Old Planet
It wasn’t that long ago that climate refudiaters peering into the tea leaves declared global warming over and global cooling upon us. Preliminary analyses indicate that 2010 did not follow form.
Source: Goddard Institute for Space Studies (Click graphs for bigger image.)
Atmospheric CO2 Reaches New Heights
Atmospheric CO2 concentrations continued to rise in 2010.
At the Mauna Loa Observatory (
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