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NOAA news isn't good news
Atmospheric carbon dioxide, methane rise sharply in 2007 |
Joseph Romm |
24 Apr 2008 |
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| The news from NOAA is that all our dawdling on climate action this decade is having real impact on the atmosphere: Concentrations of CO2 jumped 2.4 ppm in 2007, taking us to 385 ppm (preindustrial levels hovered around 280 through 1850). That is an increase of 0.6 percent (or 19 billion tons). If we stay at that growth rate, we'll be at 465 ppm by 2050 -- and that assumes (improbably) that the various carbon sinks don't keep saturating (see here and here). L ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (all these topics) |
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