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Meanwhile... https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

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what a beautiful line, look at it go up

no change in trend though.

and cheaper gas is basically trump policies.

i think we should ban gas and let other countries take over (with gas) /s

Cheaper gas is a thing Trump says but basically nothing the administration has done is leading to cheap gas. It's the inevitable result of demand declines and decades of domestic production capacity increases.

Interestingly one policy Trump actually controls: he has cut the rate of adding stocks to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in half. From Dec '24 to Dec '25 they added only 19 million barrels, compared to the 40 million barrels added in the prior year, despite Trump campaigning on filling the SPR "right to the top". The last, and only, administration that has topped off the SPR was Obama.

Well, he has been looking like he's going to invade Venezuala for a little while now. If they do a Syria-esque takeover of the oil-producing regions there could possibly be cheaper gas for wherever that gas would get shipped.

Don't hold your breath. Those fields need investment.

No change in trend is part of the problem, no change or accelerating is exactly the whole problem...

Ah...remember the days of 350.org? How cute that seems now.

Do you all realize how catastrophic this is?

When it actually snowed in winter? Yes, in fact I do remember that.

Weather is not climate.

Over many years, yes, that is in fact climate.

Not in the manner or scale you're suggesting.

You're gonna have to locate yourself for this comment to make any sense. Plenty of places still get snow regularly in winter, and nothing humans can do will change that

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