Researchers have said that the average level of carbon dioxide has, for the first time, topped 400 parts per million for a full month in April.
Washington: Researchers have said that the average level of carbon dioxide has, for the first time, topped 400 parts per million for a full month in April.
They’ve said that it’s likely this record-breaking moment marks the first time in 800,000 years that the Earth’s atmosphere has featured so much CO2, discovery News reported.
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James Butler, director of the Global Monitoring Division of NOAA’s Boulder-based Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), said in a statement that they continue to turn the dial up on this ‘electric blanket’ of ours without knowing what the resulting temperatures will be.
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