{"id":8595,"date":"2023-11-18T09:26:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T08:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=8595"},"modified":"2023-11-18T09:26:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T08:26:03","slug":"greenhouse-gas-concentrations-have-reached-record-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/11\/18\/greenhouse-gas-concentrations-have-reached-record-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenhouse gas concentrations hit record highs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new record again last year and an upward trend is in sight. <\/span><span>According to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization, global average concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), the most important greenhouse gas, were a full 50 percent higher in 2022 than in the pre-industrial era for the first time. They continued to rise in 2023. <\/span><span>The rate of growth in CO2 concentrations was slightly lower than the previous year and the 10-year average, according to the WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. <\/span><span>However, it said this was most likely caused by natural short-term changes in the carbon cycle and that new emissions from industrial activities continued to rise. <\/span><span>Methane concentrations have also risen, and levels of nitrous oxide, a third major greenhouse gas, saw their highest year-on-year increase on record from 2021 to 2022, according to the Greenhouse Bulletin, which is published to inform the United Nations climate change talks, or COP28, in Dubai. (<em>Olushola Bello)<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said that the amount of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new record last year and the upward trend is in sight. According to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization, global average concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), the most important greenhouse gas, were a full 50 percent higher in 2022 for the first time than in the pre-industrial era. In [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}