{"id":3501405,"date":"2022-10-27T08:39:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T07:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/?p=3501405"},"modified":"2022-10-27T08:43:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T07:43:40","slug":"climate-change-co2-and-methane-in-our-atmosphere-reach-record-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/climate-change-co2-and-methane-in-our-atmosphere-reach-record-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change: CO2 and methane in our atmosphere reach record levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1372.8px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"text-align: justify; \">The agency\u2019s yearly Greenhouse Gas Bulletin warns of the biggest year-on-year jump in methane concentrations in 2021 since systematic measurements began nearly 40 years ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">While the reason for the unprecedented increase is still unclear, it seems to be a result of both biological and human-induced processes according to the report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">The increase in carbon dioxide levels from 2020 to 2021 was also larger than the average annual growth rate over the last decade, and according to WMO, the levels continue to rise through 2022.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>A human hand in the planet\u2019s warming<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Between 1990 and 2021, the warming effect on our climate by long-lived greenhouse gases (those that stay in the atmosphere) has risen by nearly 50 per cent, mainly fuelled by a CO2 increase.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">To be more specific, CO2 concentrations last year reached 415.7 parts per million (ppm), methane 1908 ppm, and nitrous oxide 334.5 ppm.  These values constitute, respectively, 149 per cent, 262 per cent and 124 per cent of pre-industrial levels before human activities started disrupting the natural balance of these gases in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>The call to global leaders at COP27<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">For WMO\u2019s chief, the report highlights the importance to implement without delay the cost-effective strategies already available to tackle methane emissions, as well as to slash CO2 by transforming our industrial, energy and transport systems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">\u201cThe needed changes are economically affordable and technically possible. Time is running out,\u201d he reiterated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>Understanding the culprits:<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">WMO warns that as long as emissions continue, global temperature will continue to rise. Given the long life of CO2 in the atmosphere, the temperature level already observed will persist for decades even if emissions are rapidly reduced to net zero.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Scientists point out that it is also important to understand that this report is measuring the concentrations of greenhouse gases, meaning what remains in the atmosphere after gases are absorbed by sinks, like the ocean and biosphere, which are not the same as emissions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \"><b>CO2 from fossil fuels<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">The Bulletin explains that after COVID-related lockdowns in 2020, global CO2 emissions have rebounded, primarily from fossil fuel and cement production.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Of the total emissions from human activities during the 2011\u20132020 period, about 48 per cent accumulated in the atmosphere, 26 per cent in the ocean and 29% on land.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Experts warn that there is concern that the ability of land ecosystems and oceans to act as sinks may become less effective in future, thus reducing their ability to absorb carbon dioxide and act as a buffer against larger temperature increases. In some parts of the world, previously carbon-absorbing land has started to emit the gas back to the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; \">Source: UN News<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate Change News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3498429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3501405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Climate change: CO2 and methane in our atmosphere reach record levels - Global Factor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalfactor.com\/en\/climate-change-co2-and-methane-in-our-atmosphere-reach-record-levels\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Climate change: CO2 and methane in our atmosphere reach record levels - 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