Greenhouse Gas Concentrations Highest in 800,000 Years

[Judi Lynn]

Posted by News Editor in Air/Climate, Latest News, RSS on October 30, 2017 2:19 pm

GENEVA, Switzerland, October 30, 2017 (ENS) – Concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere surged at record-breaking speed in 2016 to the highest level in 800,000 years, the World Meteorological Organization says in its latest annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, issued today.

The abrupt changes in the atmosphere seen in the past 70 years are “without precedent,” said the UN’s agency on the state and behavior of the Earth’s atmosphere, its interaction with the oceans and the climate it produces.

Globally averaged concentrations of CO2 reached 403.3 parts per million in 2016, up from 400.00 ppm in 2015 because of a combination of human activities and a strong El Niño event that warmed the Eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.

Concentrations of CO2 are now 145 percent of pre-industrial levels, before the year 1750, according to the WMO’s Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.

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[Doodley]

1. The most abrupt change in less than 0.001 of the last 800,000 years, and GOP say humans not involved