Alert! The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the highest in history

May 18, 2019

The previous peak was three million years ago, at the time of the Pilocene.

A recent study has announced that the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earth's atmosphere has reached levels never recorded before.

According to the measures of Observatory of Mauna Loa in Hawaii, the gas reached 415 parts per million (ppm). The first recorded "peak peak" is produced in samples of Arctic ice dating back 800 thousand years. It was the journalist and meteorologist, Eric Holthaus, who published through his account Twitter (@EricHolthaus) this alarming news.

"This is the first time in human history that the atmosphere of our planet contains more than 415 ppm of CO2. Not only in the historical archives, not only since the invention of agriculture 10 thousand years ago. Since before, modern humans existed millions of years ago. We do not know an equal planet", He published.

In a report of the CNN, the current record exceeds a peak about three million years ago during the Pilocene Erawhen atmospheric CO2 reached 300 to 400 million ppm with temperatures about two to three degrees warmer than current ones.

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Carbon dioxide is the biggest contributor to climate change in the world and stays in the atmosphere for many years after its broadcast. This makes the effects worse.

The United Nations published a study revealing that if emission reductions were kept at the same level as Agreement of Paris, the world's temperature would continue to rise between three and five degrees centigrade over the next 30 years.