USA TODAY
Carbon dioxide and methane continued their unrelenting rise in 2020 despite the economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
“Human activity is driving climate change.
The world is already more than 2 [degrees Fahrenheit] warmer than it was before the Industrial Revolution.”
The COVID-19 pandemic did nothing to slow the root cause of global warming.
In fact, the level of carbon dioxide in the Earth s atmosphere is now higher than it has been in at least 3.6 million years, federal scientists announced Wednesday.
At that time, sea levels were as much as 78 feet higher, the average temperature was 7 degrees Fahrenheit higher than in pre-industrial times, Greenland was mostly green, and Antarctica had trees.