Sources:
Long term data from the internationally recognized Vostok ice core samples:
http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/co2/vostok.htm
(you can download the data at the top)
More recent (industrial age) data:
http://www.dar.csiro.au/publications/Pearman_1999a.htm
.
2100 estimate from the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
. They estimate CO2 levels of between 540 and 970 in the year 2100, the average of which is about 750.
Read about the scientific consensus
here
.
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