Tans, who runs the monitoring program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that reported the new reading. “It symbolizes that so far we have failed miserably in tackling this problem,” said Pieter P. The best available evidence suggests the amount of the gas in the air has not been this high for at least three million years, before humans evolved, and scientists believe the rise portends large changes in the climate and the level of the sea. Scientific monitors reported that the gas had reached an average daily level that surpassed 400 parts per million - just an odometer moment in one sense, but also a sobering reminder that decades of efforts to bring human-produced emissions under control are faltering. The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported on Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years.
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