During the 2020 election campaign, Joe Biden guaranteed he would end fossil fuels.
NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus says that unless Joe Biden ends fossil fuels, he will continue to suffer bottomless grief.
Joe Biden must declare a climate emergency. And he must do so now | Peter Kalmus | The Guardian
Forest fire burn acreage in the US is at historically low levels, down more than 99% since pre-industrial times.
National Fire News | National Interagency Fire Center
“In the conterminous United States during the preindustrial period (1500- 1800), an average of 145 million acres burned annually. Today only 14 million acres (federal and non-federal) are burned annually by wildland fire from all ignition sources.”
The percent of the US to have reached 95F (35C) so far this year is at a record low.
The summer of 1936 was much hotter.
July 29 Arctic sea ice extent is the highest in seventeen years, and there has been no trend over that period.
ftp://osisaf.met.no/prod_test/ice/index/v2p1/nh/osisaf_nh_sie_daily.txt
The surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet has gained 450 billion tons of ice over the last eleven months. Five of the last seven years have had ice gains greater than the 1981-2010 average.
Surface Conditions: Polar Portal
Fossil fuel usage is skyrocketing around the world.
Global primary energy consumption by source
The US doesn’t control CO2 emissions and there is nothing Biden could do change the trajectory of CO2 growth.
Global Monitoring Laboratory – Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases
