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The weekly round-up on the climate crisis and data on carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. The idea of ​​doing a weekly round-up on the climate crisis was born in the wake of the climate newsletter Guardian which every week publishes data on carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, an indicator that tells us the state of the climate crisis and the health of our planet.This week, the atmospheric concentration of CO2, the greenhouse gas primarily responsible for global warming, exceeded 424 parts per million (ppm) for the first time.In recent days it had already exceeded 423.More than half of the CO2 produced by human activities, from the Industrial Revolution to today, was released in the atmosphere since 1990.Unfortunately, this data is not newsworthy and is not reflected in the climate policies of governments, whose actions to cut emissions are regularly deferred over time in the name of energy security (and to guarantee the difficult compromises required by the ecological transition).An...