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'The United Nations announced Monday that it had taken a significant step
towards trying to fill a key gap in the fight against climate change:
standardized, real-time tracking of greenhouse gases.
The U.N.'s World Meteorological Organization has come up with a new Global
Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Infrastructure that aims to provide better ways of
measuring planet-warming pollution and help inform policy choices.
The WMO's new platform will integrate space-based and surface-based observing
systems, and seek to clarify uncertainties about where greenhouse gas emissions
end up.
It should result in much faster and sharper data on how the planet's atmosphere
is changing.
"We know from our measurements that greenhouse gas concentrations in the
atmosphere are at record high," WMO chief Petteri Taalas said.
The three major greenhouses gases are carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous
oxide. Of those, CO2 accounts for around 66 percent of the warming effect on
the climate.
"The increase in CO2 levels from 2020 to 2021 was higher than the average
growth rate over the past decade, and methane saw the biggest year-on-year jump
since measurements started," Taalas said.'
Via
Future Crunch:
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
