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Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday May 11, 2024 @10:34AM from the global-warning dept.
“Atmospheric levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide aren’t just on their way to yet another record high this year,” reports the Washington Post.
“They’re rising faster than ever, according to the latest in a 66-year-long series of observations.”Carbon dioxide levels were 4.7 parts per million higher in March than they were a year earlier, the largest annual leap ever measured at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration laboratory atop a volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island. And from January through April, CO2 concentrations increased faster than they have in the first four months of any other year…
For decades, CO2 concentrations at Mauna Loa in the month of May have broken previous records. But the recent acceleration in atmospheric CO2, surpassing a record-setting increase observed in 2016, is perhaps a more ominous signal of failing efforts to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and the damage they cause to Earth’s climate. “Not only is CO2 still rising in the atmosphere — it’s increasing faster and faster,” said Arlyn Andrews, a climate scientist at NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. A historically strong El Niño climate pattern that developed last year is a big reason for the spike. But the weather pattern only punctuated an existing trend in which global carbon emissions are rising even as U.S. emissions have declined and the growth in global emissions has slowed. The spike is “not surprising,” said Ralph Keeling, director of the CO2 Program at Scripps Institution, “because we’re also burning more fossil fuel than ever….”
El Niño-linked droughts in tropical areas including Indonesia and northern South America mean less carbon storage within plants, Keeling said. Land-based ecosystems around the world tend to give off more carbon dioxide during El Niño because of the changes in precipitation and temperature the weather pattern brings, Andrews added. And for CO2 concentrations to fall back below 400 parts per million, it would take more than two centuries even if emissions dropped close to zero by the end of this century, she added.
This year’s reading “is more than 50 percent above preindustrial levels and the highest in at least 4.3 million years, according to NOAA.”
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Injured bobcat rescued in Jensen Beach, safely released back into wild
‘Our wildlife is taking a very large hit with the growth of the population,’ animal control officer Amanda Heffron says
A young bobcat is back in the wild after facing a scary encounter.
By: Cassandra Garcia
Posted at 10:49 PM, May 09, 2024
and last updated 8:22 PM, May 09, 2024
JENSEN BEACH, Fla. — A young bobcat is back in the wild after facing a scary encounter.
Deputies in Martin County said the injured animal may have been hit by a car but managed to seek shelter under another vehicle.
As wooded areas of the county are torn down to make way for housing complexes and stores, it poses a problem for wildlife.
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“I feel like it’s kind of unfortunate because there’s a lot of building going on,” resident Lauren Smith said. “The animals have nowhere to go, and they’re just going to where they can.”
“They really have no choice,” Scott Smith, Lauren’s husband, added. “The animals, if they’re there, they’re going to get pushed out into the environment.”
The Martin County Sheriff’s Office Animal Services unit on Thursday rescued an injured bobcat from the parking lot of the Treasure Coast Medical Pavilion in Jensen Beach. They believe it was clipped by a car and took shelter underneath a vehicle.
“[There was] a deputy on one side of the car [and] myself on the other side of the car, and it was just a game of cat and mouse basically trying to secure it so that we could get it evaluated at the wildlife hospital to make sure it was OK,” Amanda Heffron, a certified animal control officer with the Martin County Sheriff’s Office, said.
Heffron said the bobcat was transferred to the Treasure Coast Wildlife Center for care. The animal hospital said the bobcat had superficial scrapes on its front and back legs. It was treated and later released in a safe area. They believe the male bobcat was likely less than a year old.
Heffron, who facilitated the rescue, said calls about wild animals are becoming increasingly common and the animals don’t always walk away unscathed.
“Our wildlife is taking a very large hit with the growth of the population and all the building that’s going on,” Heffron said. “It’s taking away their habitat and their running looking for food.”
Jensen Beach resident Becky Smith said she wasn’t surprised to hear that a bobcat was rescued from an urban area, adding that she’s no stranger to wildlife roaming around.
“We used to have some of the clear lots basically that did have trees, but then homes and all that have taken over,” Smith said. “We do see a lot more animals, wildlife because they’re looking for their homes.”
