400 to 450 ppm Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:18:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Researchers Say Rising Sea Levels Caused by Increasing CO2 Concentrations https://www.greenoptimistic.com/researchers-say-rising-sea-levels-caused-by-increasing-co2-concentrations-20130104/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/researchers-say-rising-sea-levels-caused-by-increasing-co2-concentrations-20130104/#respond Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:18:19 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=30701 Researchers at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton have compared reconstructions of atmospheric CO2 sea level concentrations over the past 40 million years, and they have determined that greenhouse gases equaling 400 parts per million, a concentration similar to today’s rates, were associated with a rise in sea level by 9 meters. The data used by […]

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