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It sounds legit cause it comes from NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. It looks like Scripps has been doing this kind of monitoring, since the 1950's.
Apart from that to my understanding CO2 emissions are just skyrocketing. Sorry, but for some reason the NYT article doesn't open for me, so I don't know what it says.
I tried to link to an archived copy of the NYT article so everyone could read it. Apparently that didn't work. Here's the original paywalled link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/climate/carbon-emissions-falling-global.html
And here's an updated archive link:
https://archive.is/mTTBx
Thank you! The funny thing is that I was just reading it and wrote a relevant comment there. So I'll just copy-paste it:
First of I wouldn't trust BloombergNEF for environmental sustainability estimates, only for business expansion advice.
Second would be that what the actual report of Climate Analytics says is:
This is a greenwishing NYT article, at best.