Heat-trapping carbon dioxide and methane levels in the air last year spiked to record highs again

Just cyclical: humans did perfectly fine when CO2 was last this high back in the Cretaceous.

There has been discussion about increasing our use of hydrogen as a way to minimize global warming. The trouble with that idea is that it only works if the hydrogen is made through the hydrolysis of water, and if the said hydrolysis is powered by clean energy. Sadly, most hydrogen is made by heating hydrocarbons to a very high temperature. The byproducts of heating the hydrocarbons are hydrogen and carbon, which carbon, within two months, bonds with oxygen in the atmosphere to make CO2. Adding to the problem is that most hydrogen made this way derives from heating up hydrocarbons by burning hydrocarbons, which also adds to heat trapping gases in the atmosphere,

So, while burning hydrogen as a fuel is a good idea if the hydrogen comes from the hydrolysis process, powered by clean energy, most hydrogen today is made in a fashion that is not very clean at all.

One would be entitled to ask, rather than use electricity to power hydrolysis, why not use the electricity directly in the powering of our engines?

One would be entitled to ask, rather than use electricity to power hydrolysis, why not use the electricity directly in the powering of our engines?

It has been done a number of times over the past 50-odd years. The first link reported on by Reuters (surprise) is a company based in Osaka, but Stan Myers' water powered car is probably the most well known.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jivb7lupDNU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a74uarqap2E

https://www.bitchute.com/video/GrPpiS1SMTPn/

most hydrogen today is made in a fashion that is not very clean at all.

I wonder why? Perhaps the answer can be found in a quote said to be made by Henry Kissinger. Even if it wasn't made by him it could still be acknowledged as true.

“Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.”

Carbon dioxide emissions going into the air from burning fossil fuels and making cement hit an all time high last year of 36.8 billion metric tons

Sounds like completely the wrong direction. When coping and temporary tech solutions are all we have left to resort to it is blindingly obvious we have screwed up. Time to stop listening to the fossil fuel propagandists and their useful idiots, like, yesterday.

The insertion into the atmosphere of crazy amounts of carbon gases is stupid and suicidal. Our knowledge of physics and system theory tells us that in the wake of the inputs inserted by humans the climate system has become nonlinear and unstable. This system is full of malignant positive feedback loops that push it away from equilibrium.

Outside the fact we have been doomed for a long time now (first announce in 1896 in fact), there will be change only when the whole world realized it is badly affected.

https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/evidence/

So far Russia benefits global heating of climate...

rose in 2023 by the third highest amount in 65 years of record keeping

Not as bad as two other years.

Hmmmmmmmmmm.....

Not as bad as two other years.

But as it is following a period of deacceleration because of the pandemic it indicates the problem is becoming more and more intense in spite of the efforts to curve its growth.