The Carbon Dioxide levels GLOBALLY have gone through the roof since Bush/Cheney took office.
Carbon dioxide hits record levels
By Charles J. HanleyAssociated Press
MAUNA LOA OBSERVATORY, Hawai'i — Carbon dioxide, the gas largely blamed for global warming, has reached record-high levels in the atmosphere after growing at an accelerated pace in the past year, say scientists monitoring the sky from the observatory.
. . . Average readings at the 11,141-foot Mauna Loa Observatory, where carbon dioxide density peaks each northern winter, hovered around 379 parts per million on Friday, compared with about 376 a year ago.
That year-to-year increase of about 3 parts per million is considerably higher than the average annual increase of 1.8 parts per million during the past decade, and markedly more accelerated than the 1-part-per-million annual increase recorded a half-century ago, when observations were first made here.
