Do n’t panic ( you should panic ) but the rate at which the stage of CO2 in the atmosphere are rising justhit a 30 - class gamy — and if rates do n’t slow , then we ’ll soon infract the degree that experts claim are safe .
The levels of atmospheric carbon paper dioxiderose quicker between 2012 - 2013 than they have done since 1984 . If the rate of accumulation does n’t decelerate , then the grade of CO2 in the atmosphere will reach 400 parts per million in the next two years . Just for your data , that ’s above the threshold of 350ppm that most climate scientists think to be tolerable .
Why the striking rates of increase ? Well , theWorld Meteorological Organization repoint outthat the sea have long been swallowing carbon and , as they do so , acidifying . The only job with that otherwise useful process — for our atmosphere , at least , not inevitably the content of the oceans — is that with increased acidity come a reduction in their mental ability to take on more carbon . The Organization points out that the “ current rate of ocean acidification seem unprecedented at least over the last 300 million years , ” and as a result our atmosphere isshouldering the incumbrance .
With a stream of UN account laying the rise ofcarbon emissions at human kind ’s feetand the rap - on effect of large - shell climatic shiftsnow being inevitable , then today is fine day indeed to panic . Or , you know , actually do something to relieve the planet .
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