An international report from the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society just confirmed that in 2023 we had record-high global:
🌡️ Temperature
đź’¨ Greenhouse gases
🌊 Sea level
🪸 Ocean heat
🔺The annual global average carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere rose to 419 ppm which is 50% greater than the pre-industrial level.
⛽️ The growth from 2022 to 2023 was 2.8 ppm, the fourth highest in the record since the 1960s. The main reason emissions are going up? Burning fossil fuels.
Source:
https://ametsoc.net/sotc2023/SoCin2023_FullReport.pdfBulletin of the American Meteorological Society
“https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/methane-emissions-are-driving-climate-change-heres-how-reduce-them.” By the United Nations Environment Programme. August 2021.
“https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210603-nitrous-oxide-the-worlds-forgotten-greenhouse-gas” by Ula Chrobak for BBC
“https://research.noaa.gov/2024/06/12/nitrous-oxide-emissions-grew-40-percent-from-1980-to-2020-accelerating-climate-change/” from NOAA. June 2024.
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