Based on what you have learned through the lectures and your readings, describe

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Based on what you have learned through the lectures and your readings, describe why the rate of change of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has increased over this period?

The figure below shows the record of monthly-averaged and seasonally-adjusted atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) gas concentrations measured at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii beginning in 1958 and ending in 2014. Answer the questions below pertaining to these measurements. You might want to have a simple calculator available to help you with these questions.

Based on what you have learned through the lectures and your readings, describe why the rate of change of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has increased over this period?

Explanation / Answer

Due to industrialization in the 19th Century rate of change of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has increased over this period.

Also automobile emissions   contributed to the rise of CO2 in the atmosphere.

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