Greenhouse gases have reached record levels in the atmosphere and there are no signs of them abating. This is what the United Nations climate agency highlighted today.
In its annual bulletin on greenhouse gases, the World Organization wrote that the amount of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide in the atmosphere today is the highest ever recorded since the industrial revolution. According to the WMO, the effects of harmful gases on rising temperatures, i.e. the net amount of radiation reaching the atmosphere, have increased by 29% since 1990 and by 1,4% from 2009 to 2010.
Last week, UN scholars stressed that this century will experience more intense heatwaves, droughts, floods and storms due to global warming. “Even if we were able to stop our greenhouse gas missions today, an eventuality that is far from probable – underlined Jarraud, secretary general of the OMN – the gases already present in the atmosphere would still exist for tens of years continuing to disturb the fragile balance of the earth and its climate”.
