Record Concentration Of Carbon Dioxide In The Earth’s Atmosphere Was Recorded

In the Earth’s atmosphere, for the first time in the history of measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide, a single indicator of more than 421 parts per 1,000,000 was recorded. The record figure can be seen according to the data of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which comes from equipment on the slope of the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii, writes The Washington Post …

On April 3, the daily average at the measurement point at an altitude of 3394 m above sea level reached 421.21 parts per million. Previously, it never exceeded 420.

In the late 1950s, the concentration of CO₂ here averaged ~ 315 ppm.And the data obtained from ice cores show that current levels of CO₂ higher than at any time in the last 800,000 years (since long ago the figure was ~ 280 ppm).

There is a consensus in the scientific world that increasing CO emissions₂ leads to global warming. Doubling CO₂is likely to result in a temperature rise of 2.3 ° C to 4.5 ° C. Even if greenhouse gas emissions stop at once, warming on Earth will continue for many years to come.

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Carbon dioxide emissions are a consequence of the production of electricity through the combustion of oil products, coal and gas, the operation of transport, large-scale industry, as well as volcanic eruptions, the respiration of organisms and the decay of organic matter.

According to the publication, the United States alone emits more than 5 billion tons of CO per year.₂: this is the weight of> 13 million fully loaded Boeing 747s.

About half of the CO emitted₂ remains in the atmosphere and causes warming, more than a quarter is absorbed by the oceans, where it acidifies water and destroys marine ecosystems.