June 3, 2018
Graph of the Day: Carbon emissions projected in 1992 compared with observed emissions
By Robert Rohde
13 May 2018
(Twitter) – In 1992, the world adopted the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to fight global warming.
The same year, the IPCC released a set of projections for future CO2. The most widely used, IS92a, depicted global growth under business-as-usual.
Today, CO2 is only ~5 ppm below what IS92a predicted.[Note also that the growth continues to be supralinear. –Des]
