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Global warming is mainly the result of CO2 levels rising in the Earth’s atmosphere. Both atmospheric CO2 and climate change are accelerating. Climate scientists say we have years, not decades, to stabilize CO2 and other greenhouse gases.

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The Most Current CO2 Data on Earth

Atmospheric CO2  |  Mauna Loa Observatory

NOAA-ESRL  |  Data available since 1974

Scripps CO2 Program  |  Data available since 1958

Period

Latest Data

Comparison 

Source 

Last Update 

Weekly

397.17 ppm

May 6 - 12
2012

393.05 ppm

May 6 - 12
2011

NOAA-ESRL

May 13, 2012

Monthly

396.34 ppm

April 2012

393.50 ppm

April 2011

Scripps CO2

May 10, 2012

 

396.18 ppm

April 2012

393.28 ppm

April 2011

NOAA-ESRL

May 7, 2012 

Annual

389.92 ppm*

2010 

387.35 ppm*

2009

Scripps CO2

Jan 14, 2011

 

391.57 ppm

2011

389.78 ppm

2010

NOAA-ESRL

May 7, 2012

* Scripps annual CO2 data is calcuated by CO2Now using Scripps monthly CO2 data. 

 

Atmospheric CO2    |  Global Data

NOAA-ESRL Cooperative Air Sampling Network 

Global Data Available Since 1980

Period 

Latest Data 

Comparison 

Last Update 

Monthly 

393.87 ppm

March 2012 

391.46 ppm 

March 2011

May 7, 2012

Annual

390.44 ppm 

2011

388.54 ppm 

2010

May 7, 2012 

 

 

 

The Global Monitoring Division of NOAA-ESRL operates staffed atmospheric baseline observatories at the following locations:

 

Source:  NOAA-ESRL GMD

The NOAA-ESRL-GMD CCGG (carbon cycle greenhouse gas group) cooperative air sampling network effort began in 1967 at Niwot Ridge, Colorado (USA). Today, the network is an international effort which includes regular discrete samples from NOAA-ESRL baseline observatories, cooperative fixed sites, and commercial ships.

Air samples are collected through the NOAA-ESRL global air sampling network, including a cooperative program for the carbon gases which provides samples from about 100 global clean air sites, including measurements from ship routes at 5 degree latitude intervals.  

Air samples are collected approximately weekly and analyzed in Boulder, Colorado (USA). 

Sources:  NOAA-ESRL CCGG  High-Resolution PDF

 

 

 
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