According to the New York Times on Friday, May 3, scientists said that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is causing global warming, continues to rise, breaking records in May 2022. 2022.
According to the newspaper, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is now 50% higher than before the industrial industry and the beginning of burning oil, gas and coal in the late nineteenth century.
Officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States have shown that the amount of carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere is at least 4 million years old.
Gas concentrations reached nearly 421 parts per million in May 2022, after power plants, vehicles and farms around the world continued to pump large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Total greenhouse gas emissions in 2021 reached 36.3 billion tons, which is the highest level in history.
Increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere lead to global warming, which can lead to major environmental disasters such as floods, droughts and forest fires.
The increase in carbon dioxide levels is further evidence of the failure of countries around the world to achieve the main goal of the Paris Climate Summit in 2015, which is to limit the rise in temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
“This is a clear reminder that we need to take urgent and serious steps to be more prepared for the weather,” said Rick Spinrad, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Peter Tanz, a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Surveillance Laboratory, said that although carbon dioxide levels fell somewhat around 2020 during the recession caused by the Corona virus, the decline continued in the long run. did not. In the long run, carbon dioxide rose again at the same rate as in previous years.
Carbon dioxide levels vary throughout the year and increase with plant death and decay in autumn and winter, and decrease in spring and summer because growing plants absorb gas through photosynthesis. The peak is reached in May each year before accelerating plant growth in the Northern Hemisphere.
Source: Lebanon Debate
