It turns out there is an analytical reason we will not get a weekly data point at Mauna Loa for the 2nd time in half...

[NNadir]

...a century. The last time was because of, I believe, the orange pedophile's shut down a few weeks back.

The data is being rejected because of a precision issue, probably an instrumental effect and not an effect of atmospheric instability.

The graphic of daily hourly readings demonstrates the problem:



Recent Daily Average Mauna Loa CO2

This may be a result of a lack of money to maintain the instrument or a lack of qualified service engineers, I don't know.

It couldn't happen at a worse time, as we are surely approaching the annual maximum.

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1. The Administration proposes cutting their budget by 28%

https://www.aip.org/fyi/lawmakers-warn-proposed-noaa-budget-cuts-would-gut-research-undermine-forecasting

[NNadir]

2. It's not the only science to be impacted by the orange pedophile's actions; among the many tragedies associated with...

...the deliberate destruction of American scientific preeminence by racist ignoramuses, it is a serious one however.

They're all serious actually.

This instrument, a cavity ring down spectrometer, is not incredibly expensive. One can get a good one for a few hundred thousand dollars.

This is a crime against humanity.