Annual carbon dioxide peak reaches 432 parts per million

Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego reported today that carbon dioxide levels at Mauna Loa Observatory reached 432.00 parts per million (ppm) in May, continuing a long trend of record-breaking annual peak readings.

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@primonatura Compare this level with that in the Mid-Piacenzian Warm Period of the Pliocene Epoch, & NB the #climate #conditions at that time. The ONLY reason we don't have the same conditions is because of the level of cooling aerosols in our #atmosphere. See: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-67154-8.pdf; https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.04474, p.27 (the whole paper should be read).