{"id":1159,"date":"2020-06-09T10:29:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T15:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2020-06-09T10:29:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T15:29:05","slug":"earths-carbon-dioxide-levels-hit-record-high-despite-coronavirus-related-emissions-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/06\/09\/earths-carbon-dioxide-levels-hit-record-high-despite-coronavirus-related-emissions-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s carbon dioxide levels hit record high, despite coronavirus-related emissions drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-09-at-11.26.53-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1160\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-09-at-11.26.53-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-09-at-11.26.53-AM.png 1092w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-09-at-11.26.53-AM-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-09-at-11.26.53-AM-768x992.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-09-at-11.26.53-AM-793x1024.png 793w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2020\/06\/04\/carbon-dioxide-record-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Source: Washington Post: Earth\u2019s carbon dioxide levels hit record high, despite coronavirus-related emissions drop<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There probably is more carbon dioxide in the air now than at anytime in 3 million years<\/p>\n<p>The coronavirus pandemic\u2019s economic downturn may have set off a sudden plunge in global greenhouse gas emissions, but another crucial metric for determining the severity of global warming \u2014 the amount of greenhouse gases actually in the air \u2014 just hit a record high.<\/p>\n<p>According to readings from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the amount of CO2 in the air in May 2020 hit an average of slightly greater than 417 parts per million (ppm). This is the highest monthly average value ever recorded, and is up from 414.7 ppm in May of last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Source: Washington Post: Earth\u2019s carbon dioxide levels hit record high, despite coronavirus-related emissions drop There probably is more carbon dioxide in the air now than at anytime in 3 million years The coronavirus pandemic\u2019s economic downturn may have set <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/06\/09\/earths-carbon-dioxide-levels-hit-record-high-despite-coronavirus-related-emissions-drop\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}