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June 29, 2021
As the United States and the rest of the world continues to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, the earth’s carbon dioxide levels have skyrocketed to a record high.
Despite a fast halt to all forms of transportation during the early months of the pandemic in March of last year, the level of carbon dioxide that recorded in May 2021 reached its highest level in more than four million years.
Although the pandemic caused some greenhouse gas emissions to drop suddenly, global scientists did not see a significant dip in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere because of “wildfires, which also release carbon, as well as the natural behavior of carbon in the atmosphere,” according to a report
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