Cross-post: Brudaimonia; Link: dKos Environmentalists
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From BBC News:
Greenhouse gases hit record high
The steady rise in atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gases blamed for climate change shows no signs of abating, a UN agency has announced.
The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide rose by about half a percent in 2005, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has said.
Of course, this report shows nothing out-of-the-ordinary. It just confirms that the world is not doing nearly enough to curtail its emissions. That's one more reason that it will be refreshing to take control of Congress from the ineptitude of the GOP: they have done nothing substantial to deal with climate change.
Their legacy of an energy bill with huge subsidies for the oil industry and only token renewable energy appropriations looks like a high crime in the face of reports like the one above.
The WMO said quantities of carbon dioxide (CO2) were measured at 379.1 parts per million (ppm), up 0.53% from 377.1 ppm in 2004.
Concentrations of nitrous oxide (N2O) reached 319.2 ppm in 2005, an annual increase of 0.2%.
The article reports that methane levels stayed the same.