2014 CO2 emissions on trend for another record year

There seems to be little hope of significantly reducing global CO2 emissions any time soon.  The latest 2014 estimates for global CO2 emissions show that CO2 emissions from human sources following a trend close to the worst-case models compiled by the IPCC climate assessment group (see above).  And, CO2 emissions continue to continue to accelerate, putting the planet clearly on trend for significant global warming over the next 85 years.  

The depressing fact that our political leaders are unable and/or unwilling to taken the steps necessary to reduce global CO2 emissions by entering into a global, binding post-Kyoto climate treaty is now inescapable.  

Planetary geoengineering may offer a way to reduce atmospheric CO2 concentrations, or to alter the planet in ways that may help counteract the global warming caused by increasing CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere.

I've started this blog to put down some thoughts about a new geoengineering concept that I am calling the CO2 Antarctic Pumpdown.