June
7 – Reuters
(Sharon Bernstein):
“Despite a massive reduction in
commuting and in many commercial activities during the early months of
the pandemic, the amount of carbon in Earth's atmosphere in May reached
its highest level in modern history, a global indicator… showed.
Scientists… said the findings, based on the amount of carbon dioxide in
the air at NOAA's weather station on Mauna Loa in Hawaii, was the
highest since measurements began 63 years ago.
The measurement, called
the Keeling Curve after Charles David Keeling, the scientist who began
tracking carbon dioxide there in 1958, is a global benchmark for
atmospheric carbon levels.”
