Image: Scripps institution of oceanography/mashable
800,000-year history of carbon dioxide levels in Earth's atmosphere, showing the recent spike.
Posted on 10/24/2016 3:05:34 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Geneva (AFP) - The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere has passed an ominous milestone, ushering the planet into "a new era" of climate change, the UN said Monday.
For the first time on record, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere averaged 400 parts per million (ppm) in 2015, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in its latest Greenhouse Gas Bulletin.
CO2, the main greenhouse gas driving climate change, has previously passed the 400 ppm threshold on certain months in specific locations but never on a globally averaged basis, WMO said.
The UN agency also reported that CO2 concentration rates had "surged again to new records in 2016" and predicted the annual average would "not dip below (400 ppm) for many generations."
WMO chief Petteri Taalas said "the year 2015 ushered in a new era of optimism and climate action with the Paris climate change agreement.
"But it will also make history as marking a new era of climate change reality with record high greenhouse gas concentrations," he added in a statement.
The CO2 concentration rate for 2014 was 397.2 ppm, just short of the 400 ppm mark that some climate activists once deemed unthinkable.
- El Nino factor -
CO2 concentration rates have spiked in part because of a strong El Nino, the whether phenomenon that occurs every four to five years with a broadly warming effect.
El Nino "triggered droughts in tropical regions and reduced the capacity of 'sinks' like forests, vegetation and the oceans to absorb CO2," WMO said.
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Whatever.
Isn’t the global measurement site, like, downwind from a volcano?
Stuck on stupid...and just another way to get in our pocketbook.
a new era of uhhh global warming??
Mashable and Yahoo has the ‘new’ message down too..
We just entered an alarming ‘new era’ of global warming
https://www.yahoo.com/news/just-entered-alarming-era-global-162823001.html
Yeah, like there was some PLAN that we could consult and say oops, this is out of spec!
800,000-year history of carbon dioxide levels in Earth's atmosphere, showing the recent spike.
While the percentage increases, CO2 makes up a very tiny amount of air.
For GOD’S sake — DON’T EXHALE!!
They’re getting this from ice cores they say... are they now finding fizzy ice cores?
Under a million years? This is nothing... zoom out to billions.
My trees thank all of you!
Efff the UN and their mission to turn us into third world salad eaters.
WooHoo. My plants are elated.
Ask your average Libtard Alarmist what percentage of the atmosphere is CO2.
I have yet to have a Libtard give me the correct answer yet they base everything off of CO2.
I mentally record their answers.....
I get from 18%-75%.
I then advise them the correct amount and proceed to hammer the @&$* out of them.
Pure entertainment for me.
>>”The real elephant in the room is carbon dioxide, which remains in the atmosphere for thousands of years and in the oceans even longer,” he said.
Do they just sit around, smoking a J, making this sh!t up?
In over 20 years I never measured CO2 over .4%. That is point 4%. CO2 is a minor gas. Most of the atmosphere is nitrogen with about 19 to 20% oxygen, depending on the time of the year and the atmospheric pressure.
Liars.
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