Concentration of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere reaches a record high

The concentration of greenhouse gases carbon dioxide (CO ₂ ) on Earth has just exceeded 410 ppm for the first time in human history.

Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), USA, recorded carbon dioxide (CO ₂ ) concentrations above 410 parts per million (ppm) at the Mauna Loa Observatory. Hawaii, USA, on April 18 using the Keeling curve, according to Nature World News.

The exact amount of CO ₂ they measured was 410.28 ppm, the highest level in the Earth's atmosphere so far. It is likely that this is only the starting point for other scary records in the coming months.

Concentration of CO ₂ in the Earth's atmosphere passes over 410ppm.(Photo: Zee News).

According to Scientific American, high levels of CO ₂ greenhouse gases cause the Earth to retain more heat from sunlight and increase climate change. In 2013, Mauna Loa Observatory for the first time recorded CO ₂ concentrations exceeding 400 ppm. Since then, regular CO ₂ concentrations are higher than 400 ppm.

"The concentration of CO ₂ in the atmosphere is now much higher than the concentration of CO ₂ million years ago measured in ice cores and marine sediments," Pieter Tans, lead scientist at the Gas Reference Network The global greenhouse of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said.

"People have seen a significant increase in atmospheric CO ₂ concentrations, about 80 ppm, at the end of the ice age between 11,000 and 17,000 years ago. But the level of atmospheric CO ₂ concentration increases. now 200 times higher than that period, " Tans said.

Tans notes that this increase in CO ₂ is not surprising considering the emissions from burning oil, coal, natural gas and cement production. The above processes generate 10 billion tons of carbon, or 37 billion tons of CO2, each year.

In 2015, at the COP21 Global Conference on Climate Change held in Paris, France, national governments pledged to keep the temperature of the Earth from rising by more than 2 ° C by the end of the century, compared to the period Industrial money. The current global average temperature is about 15 ° C.