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Global Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach New Monthly Record

mrflash818 writes: For the first time since we began tracking carbon dioxide in the global atmosphere, the monthly global average concentration of carbon dioxide gas surpassed 400 parts per million in March 2015, according to NOAA's latest results. “It was only a matter of time that we would average 400 parts per million globally,” said Pieter Tans, lead scientist of NOAA’s Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network. “We first reported 400 ppm when all of our Arctic sites reached that value in the spring of 2012. In 2013 the record at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Observatory first crossed the 400 ppm threshold. Reaching 400 parts per million as a global average is a significant milestone."

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  1. Re:Meh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Congrats on getting the first "la la la can't hear you" post.

  2. AWESOME! by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those of us that live in northern climates above 600 feet and will see our land values skyrocket.... thank the rest of you.

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  3. Re:One wonders by craighansen · · Score: 4, Funny

    So you're in agreement that it's anthropogenic.

  4. Re:Meh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    It's not a big deal. Nobody alive will ever see the Cubs win the world series again either. Wake me up if it's carbon monoxide that's increasing, otherwise we'll just let nature grow a few more plants and solve the "problem".