CO2 levels make largest recorded annual leap, Noaa data shows
by Alex Pashley for Climate Home, part of the Guardia from Environment | The Guardian on (#16NFT)
The last time the Earth saw such a sustained increase was over 11 millennia ago, says US science agency. Climate Home reports
Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide last year rose by the biggest margin since records began, according to a US federal science agency.
Fossil fuel burning and a strong El Nino weather pattern pushed CO2 levels 3.05 parts per million (ppm) on a year earlier to 402.6 ppm, as measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) said on Wednesday.
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