Question

During the last 800,000, climate reconstructions show that CO2 Never changed more than ________ ppm upward or downward in any span of less than 1,000 years, though it has risen by this amount in the last 13 years.

Answer 1

The answer is - 30.
In the last 800,000 years, in a span of 1,000 years it never happened that the CO2 go upwards or downwards for more than 30 ppm. It has always been a slow process in this period and as much as the jumps were big, that never surpassed this number. On the other hand we are witnessing that this has happened nowadays in just 13 years, and that is very concerning because such rapid changes of CO2 in the atmosphere brings rapid changes in the climate and it will be a global catastrophe if this trend continues.