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NNadir

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11. Don't worry. Be happy. It's "only' the second worse increase in the last 66 years.

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:35 PM

Jun 2025

It's "only" 3.61 ppm higher than the average for May 2024.

It's not as bad as May 2016, which was 3.76 ppm higher (407.70 ppm) than the average for May of 2015 (403.26 ppm).

Ain't nothing that a few hyped hydrogen stations in China couldn't fix, is it?

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