{"id":8831,"date":"2016-10-31T07:23:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T11:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=8831"},"modified":"2016-10-31T07:23:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T11:23:14","slug":"carbon-dioxide-passes-a-major-threshold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/10\/carbon-dioxide-passes-a-major-threshold\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon dioxide passes a major threshold"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time ever in recorded human history, the level of carbon dioxide for the full year was above 400 parts per million. \u00a0Proxy data tell us that the last time it was at this level was 3.5 million years ago. \u00a0This was most likely aided by the strong El Ni\u00f1o, since the droughts induced by the event made it harder for plants to absorb carbon dioxide and forest fires also emitted extra carbon.<\/p>\n

Levels of CO2 are expected to continue rising due to the use of fossil fuel as well as some agricultural practices like clearing of land. \u00a0Since CO2 in the atmosphere helps trap heat near the surface of the earth, temperatures are also expected to continue rising, although the rate of increase depends on how much and how quickly carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases like methane are emitted. \u00a0You can read more about the CO2 levels at Weather Underground here<\/a>\u00a0and at BBC here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For the first time ever in recorded human history, the level of carbon dioxide for the full year was above 400 parts per million. \u00a0Proxy data tell us that the last time it was at this level was 3.5 million years ago. \u00a0This was most likely aided by the strong El Ni\u00f1o, since the droughts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":8908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-science","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8909,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8831\/revisions\/8909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}