News stories by Xing Fu-Bertaux*
OP-ED: Carbon Doxide Emissions on the Rise as the Kyoto Era Dawns
- Inter Press Service
At the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, the latest on-site measurements of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography reveal that global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations reached 391.3 parts per million (ppm) in 2011, up from 388.56 ppm in 2010 and from 280 ppm from pre-industrial times.
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