The concentration of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is according to the measurements of climate researchers have never been so high. "There are no signs for a reversal of the Trends contributing to long-term climate change, sea level rise, the acidification of the oceans, and more extreme weather situations," warned the world meteorological organization (WMO) of the UN in Geneva.
"Without a reduction of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, climate change will have devastating and irreversible consequences for the earth," warned WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas. "The opportunity to intervene, is almost wasted." The concentration of CO2 increased, according to data of the WMO in the past year on 405,5 ppm (particles per Million particles), according to 403,3 in the year 2016.
Since 1990, the radiative forcing had increased by long-lived greenhouse gases of 41 percent, according to the WMO. The radiative forcing is a measure of the energy balance of the earth and includes all the forces that warm the earth or cool. CO2 contributed to the WMO information 66 percent. Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas, and contributed 17 percent.
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Video SPIEGEL TVBasically, the increase due to the emissions from cars, factories, power plants and agriculture is causing Mariobet you all to worry with greenhouse gasausstößen for a warming of the climate. Because CO2 arises from the combustion of coal, Oil and Gas, cement production and other industrial processes. Methane is produced mainly in the cattle farming and rice cultivation.
The outcasts of CO2 is added to a part of oceans and plants and soils. The majority of reaches in the atmosphere.
in 2016, was the increase but also on account of the weather phenomenon El Niño, with its increased ocean temperatures and drought in the tropics. The oceans or the forests could not absorb as much climate-damaging carbon dioxide (CO2), as in other years.
CFC-11, a well-known ozone killer
in Addition, the researchers suggest, because of an ozone layer killer Alarm that also acts as a greenhouse gas. It comes to the long-banned refrigerant CFC-11, or Trichlorofluoromethane, was produced according to the WMO, apparently, in East Asia. The decrease of CFC-11 in the atmosphere have slowed down significantly since 2012.
The greenhouse gas emissions in Germany fell mainly due to renewable energy Expansion in the last few years. In the transport sector, emissions increased, however, reported the Federal environment Agency in the past year.
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Date Of Update: 22 November 2018, 20:01
