PowerPoint Presentation - GHGs in Earth’s atmosphere

Changing CO2 concentrations

•CO2 concentrations have varied naturally by ~30-50% over the past few hundred thousand years (ice ages)

•Fossil fuel burning since the industrial revolution has created a recent sharp increase in CO2 concentrations

•CO2 concentrations are now higher than at any time in past few hundred thousand years

•And concentrations are increasing faster with time

Last 4 Ice Age cycles:

400,000 years

See http://epa.gov/climatechange/science/recentac.html

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