Another increase in greenhouse gases has climate scientists worried

Post by Sadek Attia

Weather of Arabia - A new United Nations report issued last October 30 indicated that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased at a record rate in 2016, reaching a level not seen in 800,000 years.

The World Meteorological Organization stated, in its latest report on greenhouse gases, that the concentration reached 403.3 parts per million, while it recorded 400.00 parts per million in 2015.

Released one week before the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23) to be held in Germany, the report stresses the need for a strong and urgent global response to achieve the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement.

And the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, Petteri Taalas, stated that without rapid reductions in carbon dioxide and other emissions of greenhouse gases, we will be heading for dangerous increases in temperatures by the end of this century, well above the target set by the Paris Agreement on climate change. .

Under the Paris Agreement, countries agreed to limit the rise in average global temperatures to less than 2 degrees Celsius and as close as possible to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels in order to avoid the worst effects of climate change. Bearing in mind that one degree of this rise has already occurred.