El Nino contributes to new high in CO2 levels

NASA study confirms El Nino’s affect on climate change, adding to the impacts of human activities. The amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) in our world is likely to top 410 parts per million (ppm) this year. The CO2 measured at the Mauna Loa Baseline Atmospheric Observatory in Hawaii hit 405.1 ppm in 2016 – an increase of 3 ppm over the previous year, marking five consecutive years of an un