It would seem that is all we are doing these days. Breaking records. This one is particularly bad.

The instruments just recorded the largest spike of CO2 concentrations in a 12-month period (March 2023 vs March 2024) of 4.7 ppm.

“If this El Niño follows the pattern of the last El Niño, the world might experience a very high growth rate for several more months.”— Ralph Keeling, director CO2 Program Scripps Institution of Oceanography

The problem:

“El Niño growth surges have been happening on top of the long-term increase in CO2 growth tied to rising fossil fuel emissions, which have increased five percent from 2016 to today.”

Climate Literacy fact: CO2, a heat trapping GHG, remains in the atmosphere for 300 to 1,000 years.