Science Report Confirms Record-Setting Climate Crisis
Fires in the Arctic, record sea levels: NOAA report details effects of climate change in 2020
Emma Newburger, August 26, 2021 (CNBC)
“…[Scientists say COVID’s temporary drop in carbon emissions has had no lasting impact on climate change…[The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s State of the Climate in 2020 report] the concentration of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere still hit its highest level ever recorded last year…[There was also the] highest annual increase in concentrations of methane, a potent climate-changing gas…Average global surface temperatures were among the hottest on record…Sea levels reached the highest on record…Oceans absorbed a record level of carbon dioxide…[and] 2020 was the hottest year on record that did not feature an El Niño…
[The report follows the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report warning] that limiting global warming to close to 1.5 degrees Celsius or even 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels will be impossible in the next two decades without immediate widespread reductions in greenhouse gas pollution…[NOAA found the] annual global average carbon dioxide concentration at Earth’s surface was 412.5 parts per million, roughly 2.5 ppm more than in 2019, the highest in at least the last 800,000 years…” click here for more
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