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hatrack

(62,429 posts) Wed May 7, 2025, 11:27 AM May 7

April 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content 429.64 ppm; April 2024 426.51 ppm; April 2023 423.31 ppm

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/co2/co2_mm_mlo.txt

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April 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content 429.64 ppm; April 2024 426.51 ppm; April 2023 423.31 ppm (Original Post) hatrack May 7 OP

From the data in the charts, CO2 content went over 400 ppm in late 2015, and continues to climb. patphil May 7 #1

patphil

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1. From the data in the charts, CO2 content went over 400 ppm in late 2015, and continues to climb.

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Wed May 7, 2025, 12:09 PM

May 7

Now at 429, we're seeing an over 7% rise in less than 10 years.
And an almost 30% rise since 1980.
At the current rate of rise, it looks like it'll hit 500 ppm before 2050.
CO2 is a greenhouse gas. We need some to maintain livable conditions on the earth, but too much will drive the temperatures up to far to fast.

That's what's happening now. And yet we get this "drill baby drill" and "dig baby dig" BS from our president.
What does he care? He's going to be 79 in June. The future for him is 5-10 years.

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