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Posted on 05/06/2026 3:59:06 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
These data come from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Mauna Loa Observatory, which may soon be shut down because of proposed government budget cuts
The amount of carbon dioxide detected in the atmosphere hit a record high in April. CO2 levels averaged about 431 parts per million (ppm) over that month, according to data collected at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii.
Greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, are measured as a proportion of the total atmosphere. The numbers are presented as the number of molecules of a particular gas out of a million total molecules, or ppm.
Climate scientist Zachary Labe of Climate Central, a nonprofit that researches climate change, says the new record is “depressing” but not unexpected.
“It’s just another sign that carbon dioxide continues to increase in our atmosphere as our planet continues to warm,” he says. “For many climate scientists, this is just ‘here it is again, another record in the wrong direction.’”
Labe explains that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere tends to peak in April each year as decaying plants release greenhouse gases after winter. Some of that CO2 gets reabsorbed by plants as they grow during the warmer months. But NOAA’s data show a worrying trend, with the average monthly amount of CO2 steadily increasing.
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Since when is the emotion of depressing a scientific term ?
Co2 follows heat ,,,sun activity,,,,man can’t affect the suns output despite what the darwinist communist climate cult claims.
What percentage of the atmosphere is compromised of CO2 as it relates to these increases and what percentage should it be? I’ll hang up and take my answer over the air.
I’d better not read the article, it’s so depressing. Must exhale less...
Let’s increase it x2-3 and maybe then the ‘depressing’ effect will prompt a wave of leftist self-immolation.
...and take a deep breath.
“Remember that below 250 PPM photosynthesis nose dives and many plants die outright.”
It’s actually 150ppm. Back in 1800 the Earth’s CO2 level was 283ppm.
https://sealevel.info/co2.html
Here is a CO2 monitoring website.
https://www.co2.earth/
Historically-speaking we are still at all-time lows and need more of this life-giving gas. We could go up to 1000 or 1100ppm and be just fine.
Plants on land breathe CO2 and the phyto-plankton in our oceans do the same.
I see it as positive. CO2 is a plant growth stimulant! The world is getting more green!
Seriously, there is an argument that we were approaching plant ecology death, CO2 levels were so low. THAT would have been truly catastrophic. Unlike the climate change BS the Greens are pushing.
2,000,000 PPB will REALLY kill ya!
Even the Andromedan galaxy might be affected at 2,000,000,000 PPT!!!
Percentage?
What a concept!!
The “I Love CO2” campaign continues to gain momentum
They are going to steamroll climate science into pulp
https://livingearth.substack.com/p/the-co2-is-food-for-plants-continues
wow, still 4 molecules out of 10,000, start building the arc. and since mankind’s activity creates 3% of that so... 1 molecule out of 80,000. OMG!!!
More trees and great lawns.
95% of the CO2 in the atmosphere comes from nature itself. Only 5% is man made.....
431 ppm or 0.0430% which is almost NOTHING
We don't need no steekin' WORDS!!
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