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posted by mrpg on Saturday May 12 2018, @03:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the stop-killing-trees dept.

For the first time since humans have been monitoring, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide have exceeded 410 parts per million averaged across an entire month, a threshold that pushes the planet ever closer to warming beyond levels that scientists and the international community have deemed ‘‘safe.’’

The reading from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii finds that concentrations of the climate-warming gas averaged above 410 parts per million throughout April. The first time readings crossed 410 at all occurred on April 18, 2017, or just about a year ago.

Earth’s atmosphere just crossed another troubling climate change threshold


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @06:10AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 12 2018, @06:10AM (#678725)

    Build a wall around it and make polluters pay for it!

  • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday May 12 2018, @05:27PM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Saturday May 12 2018, @05:27PM (#678880) Homepage Journal

    I want to build a wall on Doughmore Beach, to protect @TrumpDoonbeg [twitter.com] from climate change. But, big problems from HATERS & LOSERS!!