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On May 9, 2013, an instrument near the summit of Mauna Loa in Hawai'i, United States, recorded a long-awaited climate milestone: the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2)in the atmosphere there had exceeded 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in 55 years of measurement—and probably more than thre million years of ...
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Jan 26, 2017 · Last year marked the first time in several million years that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 passed 400 parts per million.
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