Sign up for seakeepers news & updates
Get the latest on our upcoming expeditions
and how you can join our effort.
Excessive carbon emissions have been raising concerns across the world for quite some time now, and for good reason. They are the driving force behind the harmful increase in average global temperature that leads to the plethora of negative environmental effects known collectively as, “climate change.
The Problem
We hear a lot about carbon emissions and global warming but what does this really mean and how are we contributing to the issue? Carbon dioxide emissions are a complicated topic - too big for any blog post to tackle in its entirety. Put simply, CO2 is one of many greenhouse gases polluting our atmosphere, skyrocketing as human consumption continues to increase annually.
Since the industrial revolution, atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gasses have risen exponentially as humans burn fossil fuels with increasing efficiency. Models have estimated that in the 800,000 years prior to 1950, CO2 levels rarely reached concentrations of 300 parts per million (ppm), whereas today atmospheric CO2 is well over 400ppm.
