• scrion@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    While elevated CO2 levels seem to be affecting certain cognitive abilities, I did not find definitive results indicating that this has become a general problem.

    There is a meta review that indicates additional research might be worthwhile / required ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32557862/ ).

    Do you have any sources worth looking into?

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      9 months ago

      Sorry I don’t have good sources. I just read this a few years back with one study showing there is already an effect.

      While you’d probably need to study this further to be 100% certain, I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to assume ventilation is going to work worse because a constant air exchange would move concentrations towards 400ppm instead of 280ppm. So the median (or whatever) can be higher than 100ppm difference. Or maybe I’m getting this wrong?

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        9 months ago

        Ventilation definitely helps. I mean, I’m not doubting the effects, I actually run sensors in my office and have personally experienced “mind fog” when I ignored the readings for too long and didn’t open the windows when it was time.

        I was just wondering if we’re already at a point where environmental changes have made this one additional problem we need to think about more.

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          9 months ago

          I think we have to assume it’s already affecting people. The sensors are a good idea, I definitely should get some for arduino.