Global warming emissions increase by 3 percent
2008-09-25 20:56:15 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Top Stories News)
Austin, Texas (CaymanMama.com) — The global initiative to reduce the principle man-made global warming gases in 2007 may have put the world on the fast track to scientists’ estimated worst-case scenario, according to international researchers as per the Associated Press.
On Tuesday, a report was released that called the new statistics “scary” however this is interesting since originally, scientists projected that the economic slump would curb energy use. On the contrary, the output of carbon dioxide jumped 3 percent from 2006 to 2007. That amount is alarming since it not only meets, but surpasses the original outlook for global warming pollution due to burning coal and oil projected by a group of esteemed international, prize-winning scientists last year.
In the meantime, life sources such as oceans and forests, which act as a vacuum of carbon dioxide, are slowing down their rate of consumption. In fact, they are sucking up the toxin at lower rates than in the 20th century, according to scientists. If that trends persists, the world will be put on the fast track to the highest temperature rises and sea levels on record.
So what country was the worst culprit? China was the global leader of pollution followed by the U.S. which “past data show is the leader in emissions per person in carbon dioxide output. And while several developed countries slightly cut their CO2 output in 2007, the United States churned out more.” The United States emissions increased by nearly 2 percent last year after going down in 2006. Still, the U.S. produced 1.75 billion tons of carbon or 1.58 billion metric tons.
Corinne Le Quere, professor of environmental sciences at the University of East Anglia and the British Antarctic Survey said, “Things are happening very, very fast. It’s scary.”
To read more about the facts about global warming, desperatesituation of the environment and how critical the state of our world is, goto http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080925/ap_on_sc/warming_emissions;_ylt=AkVpvUegnksY.TgH6FrNw8iyBhIF
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