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Summer 2023 New maximum for the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere The CO2 concentration in the atmosphere reached a new high of 424.00 ppm on Mauna Loa in May 2023                                                                                             http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/

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December 2023

Storage capacity of the oceans for CO

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A new study (Wei-Lei Wang et. al.) assumes that the storage capacity of the oceans for CO 2 through the sedimentation of plankton in deep water is 15 gigatons per year . The IPCC World Climate Report from 2021 still assumed only 11 gigatons. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06772-4