According to researchers at the University of Bern, Switzerland, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have risen 200 times faster over the past 50 years than at any other time during the past 650,000 years. This is true also of methane: during this period, levels hovered around 600 parts per billion.
Today's atmospheric methane concentration is well over 1,700. Reported in Nature, November 2005.
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