Last June, the global concentration of carbon dioxide, experts say, reached four hundred and twenty-one parts per million (ppm), a rise of fifty percent in pre-industrial times, as well as the greatest over millions of years.
I learned something recently that kind of blew my mind: if you added up all of the carbon dioxide humans ever produced prior to 1950 - every single year, all the way back to the paleolithic era - all of this combined does not reach the amount of co2 produced in 2023.
Wow! This blew my mind. But it's not surprising. The carbon dioxide generated in many years this century exceeds all of the cumulative CO₂ emissions produced over the entire period from the start of the industrial revolution until 1950.
I learned something recently that kind of blew my mind: if you added up all of the carbon dioxide humans ever produced prior to 1950 - every single year, all the way back to the paleolithic era - all of this combined does not reach the amount of co2 produced in 2023.
Wow! This blew my mind. But it's not surprising. The carbon dioxide generated in many years this century exceeds all of the cumulative CO₂ emissions produced over the entire period from the start of the industrial revolution until 1950.
I think it's similar with the stuff we are digging up out of the ground every year, too.
Yes, very similar.