Greenhouse gas emissions shock scientists
Greenhouse gas emissions shock scientistsCarbon dioxide output is rising rather than falling, despite efforts to curb it. 'It's scary,' one researcher says.
From Times Wire Services
September 26, 2008
WASHINGTON -- The world pumped up emissions of the chief human-produced global warming gas last year, setting a course that could push beyond leading scientists' projected worst-case scenario, international researchers said Thursday.
The new numbers, which some scientists called "scary," were a surprise because experts thought an economic downturn would slow energy use. Instead, carbon dioxide output rose 3% from 2006 to 2007.
That amount exceeds the most dire outlook for emissions from burning coal and oil and related activities as projected by a Nobel Prize-winning group of international scientists in 2007.
Meanwhile, forests and oceans, which suck up carbon dioxide, are doing so at lower rates, scientists said. If those trends continue, the world will be on track for the highest predicted rises in temperature and sea level.
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Labels: carbon, emissions, global warming, IPCC
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