Earth’s Symptoms Of Heart Attack Unveil

For centuries to come, the world might recollect old memories when the earth used to be free of humanly contamination. September 2016, marks a crucial turn of events as far as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are concern. Normally, atmospheric CO₂ levels are close to 400 parts per million.

Citing Engadget, this figure generally observes a drop in September. However, this year's CO₂ levels refused to take a nosedive from the 400 ppm normalcy benchmark, which raises immense concerns regarding the planet's health.

The logic behind a normal drop of CO₂ levels is that as plants are fully grown during the summers, they start taking in carbon dioxide to their optimum capacity until the advent of September. But as fall season wears on plants lose their leaves. These leaves decompose and in turn release the stored CO₂ back into the atmosphere.

As September draws to a closure, the Mauna Loa Observatory states that despite the signs of plant CO₂ intake are manifest, the carbon dioxide levels still remain above 400ppm, an observation that might change the history of this planet forever.

The year 2016 will be remembered as a symbol of human malevolency due to which CO₂ levels officially surpassed the natural threshold, never to be restored for at least a few centuries to come. Since the Industrial Revolution, Carbon pollution has been on an exponential rise to the point where we humans have filled up the earth's atmosphere with excessive CO₂ more than what plants can take in.

This unwanted shift in the Earth's atmospheric natural equilibrium has now backfired on the human species ten-fold where we now see a drastic rise in global temperatures coupled with a host of numerous other climatic impacts. Perhaps it was always a question of 'when' rather than 'if' we traverse the threshold of normalcy. As much as this sounds 'inevitable', it shouldn't be taken lightly.

The Scripps Institute for Oceanography's CO₂ monitoring program says that it's practically impossible for October 2016 to yield a value below 400 ppm, and that "brief excursions towards lower values are still possible, but it already seems safe to conclude that we won't be seeing a monthly value below 400 ppm this year - or ever again for the indefinite future."

Even if CO₂ emissions were to end today onwards, what has already been fed into the earth's atmosphere since past centuries, will linger on for decades to come. According to NASA's chief climate scientist, "...we won't ever see a month below 400 ppm".