Levels of carbon dioxide CO in the atmosphere are rising

Last updated: 6/8/2023

Levels of carbon dioxide CO in the atmosphere are rising rapidly far above any levels ever before recorded Levels were around 278 parts per million in 1800 before the Industrial Age and had never in the hundreds of thousands of years before that gone above 300 ppm Levels are ny over 400 ppm The table below shows the rapid rise of CO concentrations over the 55 years from 1960 2015 also available in Carbon Dioxide We can use this information to predict CO levels in different years Year 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 CO 316 91 320 04 Round yo 325 68 331 11 338 75 346 12 354 39 360 82 369 55 379 80 389 90 400 83 a What is the explanatory variable What is the response variable O CO concentration is the explanatory variable and Year is the response variable Year is the explanatory variable and CO concentration is the response variable b Use technology to find the correlation between year and CO2 levels