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Michigan
Environmental Report
Volume 24 . Number 2
April 2006
MEC STAFF
President
Lana Pollack
Office Manager and
Assistant to the President
Judy Bearup
Policy Director
James Clift
Senior Policy Advisor
Dave Dempsey
Campaign Coordinator
Roshani Deraniyagle-Dantas
Development Director
Andy Draheim
Education Specialist
Keith Etheridge
Communications Specialist
Elizabeth Fedorchuk
Energy Policy Director
David Gard
Land Programs Director
Brad Garmon
Project Manager and Development Associate
Brianna Gerard
Health Policy Director
Tess Karwoski
Deputy Policy Director
Kate Madigan
Communicatons
Director
Hugh McDiarmid, Jr.
Energy Policy Specialist
Dusty Myers
Land Programs Associate
Benjamin Stupka
MER Design & Layout
Rose Homa
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CLEAN ENERGY
Greenhouse
gases hit
record levels
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Globally-averaged
concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4)
and nitrous oxide (N2O) in the planet's atmosphere reached
their highest ever-recorded levels in 2004, according
to the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) first
annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin published in March. CO2
was recorded at 377.1 parts per million (ppm), CH4 at
1,783 parts per billion (ppb), and N2O at 318.6 ppb.
These values supersede those of pre-industrial times
by 35%, 155% and 18% respectively, and increased over
the previous decade by 19 ppm, 37 ppb and 8 ppb in absolute
amounts.
WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said: "Global
observations coordinated by WMO show that levels of
carbon dioxide, the most abundant greenhouse gas in
the atmosphere, continue to increase steadily and show
no signs of leveling off."
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