Seeing the forecasts of a large El Niño, Ralph Keeling (son of David Keeling, and now leader of the Mauna Loa measurements at the Scripps Institute) predicted we'd see a large
CO2 rise in the coming months, so much so that the following September would see concentrations above 400ppm — a year earlier than expected.
Not exact matches
In the
coming months, ClimateDialogue.org will host discussions on such topics as climate sensitivity to
CO2, sea level
rise, the reliability of temperature measurements, the reliability and usefulness of climate models, and the extent to which oceans can store heat.
Mind, these are also rolling 12 -
month average
CO2 -
rise values being used so even if April
came in with a
CO2 -
rise of just 1ppm (and it would take some high
CO2 levels to reverse the low
rise seen through the start of the
month, so a low
rise is perhaps the expected outcome for April), such a low
CO2 -
rise if restricted to a
month or even two or more, it would not be so greatly significant within the 12 -
month average.