Essay by Eric Worrall

The gas of life is greening the deserts, contributing to rising agricultural yields and making the far North more habitable – but you would never learn this from mainstream media.

Jun 05, 2025

ANNUAL CARBON DIOXIDE PEAK PASSES ANOTHER MILESTONE 

Monthly Keeling Curve average exceeded 430 parts per million in May

AUTHOR
Robert Monroe

For the first time, the seasonal peak of carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere exceeded 430 parts per million (ppm) at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory on Hawaii, scientists from NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego reported today.   

Scripps Oceanography scientists calculated a May monthly average of 430.2 ppm for 2025, an increase of 3.5 ppm over May 2024’s measurement of 426.7 ppm. Scientists with NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory reported an average of 430.5 ppm, an increase of 3.6 ppm over last year. 

“Another year, another record,” said Ralph Keeling, director of the Scripps CO₂ Program. “It’s sad.”

Situated high on the slopes of the Mauna Loa volcano, the Mauna Loa Observatory is the global benchmark location for monitoring atmospheric CO₂. At an elevation of 11,141 feet above sea level, the observatory produces measurements that represent the average state of the atmosphere in the northern hemisphere.

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Read more: https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/annual-carbon-dioxide-peak-passes-another-milestone

CO2 is greening the deserts.

This CO2 fertilisation effect brings immense benefits to farmers. At least part of the reason agricultural yields are skyrocketing is CO2 is making plants more drought resilient and helping them to grow faster.

In addition to this massive surge in plant growth caused by CO2 making the world a world a more fertile, productive place, CO2 could make vast tracts of almost uninhabited far Northern wilderness more productive and comfortable for human habitation, helping to feed a hungry world.

Despite literally decades of doomsday predictions, there is no evidence whatsoever that CO2 is causing problems, other than broken computer models.

Shellfish, coral and ocean life love CO2.

The reality is our world is too cold, not too hot. Our world is locked in one of the worst periods of an ice age which started 34 million years ago and still has the world in its deadly grip, the Late Cenzoic Ice Age. Any CO2 driven global warming which helps lift the world out of this terrible period in our planet’s history is a benefit to all life on Earth.

Predicted surges in sea level have failed to manifest. This prediction dates back to 1989 – you would think after 35 years of getting it wrong, scientists would stop banging on about the same failed theories.

CO2 has a proven track record of helping our closest relatives thrive. If all the failed doomsday predictions wasn’t proof enough that we have nothing to fear from more CO2, the final proof that CO2 is good for us is that our monkey ancestors thrived in a much hotter world. The Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, 5-8C hotter than today, was the age of monkeys. Our monkey ancestors feasted on the abundance of the hothouse PETM, and colonised much of the world, only retreating when the cold returned.

So I hope you will all join me in raising a glass of your favourite beverage to celebrate this milestone in human well being and industrial progress, and drink to humanity achieving a milestone I hope to be alive to see – 500ppm of CO2 by the middle of this century.