CO2 at record levels. You alarm - Mobile Magazine

by the staff May 11, 2013

Into A bad record , although will make history: The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) has exceeded 400 parts per million (ppm). A fact that has not happened for more than 3 million years. The Greenpeace report citing the latest data entity U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) .

The figure of 400.03 ppm was registered on 9 May with the instruments placed on Mauna Loa volcano, which is located in the Hawaiian Islands.

The environmental organization reports that scientists estimate that the current levels of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere were reached between 3.2 and 5 million years ago, when average temperatures were between 3 and 4 degrees higher than now, and the two poles warmer than 10 degrees Celsius.

The cry of alarm Greenpeace , as well as today, also looks to the future: If in fact the growth of greenhouse gas emissions were to continue at this pace, in 100 years we have CO2 concentrations of 1,000 ppm. “