Amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere record bat in 2014 – El Universal (Venezuela)

Geneva -. The amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new peak in 2014, which continues the relentless increase feeds climate change, warned the latest report of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

In 2014, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 -the main greenhouse gas long-term unemployment reached 397.7 parts per million (ppm), Efe reported.

In the same year, in the northern hemisphere, CO2 concentrations exceeded the symbolic value of 400 ppm in the spring, when the CO2 is the most abundant .

In the spring of 2015, the global average atmospheric concentration of CO2 also crossed the barrier of 400 ppm.

study also highlights the interaction between increasing levels of carbon dioxide and water vapor, since the increase in surface temperatures caused by CO2 in turn causes an increase in the overall levels of water vapor, what which further increases the greenhouse effect.

This study on greenhouse gas atmospheric concentrations reported for emissions–and not those gases.

It is understood emission the amount of gas to the atmosphere and the amount remaining concentration in the atmosphere after the complex interactions that take place between the atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere and oceans.

Approximately one quarter of total CO2 emissions are absorbed by the ocean and another quarter by the biosphere, thereby reducing the amount of this gas in the atmosphere.

The level of around 278 ppm of CO2 concentrate on preindustrial atmosphere represented a balance between the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere.

Human activities such as burning fossil fuels, have altered the natural balance and by 2014 the global average concentration of CO2 reached 143% of the average in the preindustrial era, being 397.7 ppm.

The study warns that “it is likely that the global annual average exceeds 400 ppm in 2016″.

The methane (CH4) is a greenhouse gas second largest long.

The atmospheric methane reached a new peak in 2014, about 1,833 parts per billion (ppb ), which now amounts to 254% of its pre-industrial level.

With regard to nitrous oxide (N2O), the atmospheric concentration in 2014 was about 327.1 ppb, equivalent to 121% pre-industrial levels.

Its effect on the climate over a period of 100 years is 298 times that of the same carbon dioxide emissions.

This gas also contributes significantly to the destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer, which protects us from the harmful ultraviolet rays of the sun.

The report recalls that CO2 “is an invisible but very real threat,” which brings a higher global temperatures, more extreme weather events (heat waves, drought, etc) melting ice, rising sea levels and the increased acidity of oceans.

Also The alert text that actual emissions will have an effect that will last for centuries.

“Carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphere for hundreds of years in the ocean and much more. Past, present and future emissions will have a cumulative effect on both the warming and acidification of the oceans, “concludes the text.