“The rate of carbon-dioxide emissions from global industry has accelerated in recent years, outstripping even the highest earlier projections,” a new National Academy of Sciences report shows. From 2000 to 2004, “about 7.9 billion tons of carbon dioxide were emitted by industry world-wide,” millions more than the IPCC had projected “under its most extreme scenario.” More from McClatchy.
UPDATE: More from Kid Oakland.
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