Thursday, November 19, 2009

Earth 'heading for 6C' of warming. BBC News

By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website

Average global temperatures are on course to rise by up to 6C without urgent action to curb CO2 emissions, the lead author of a new analysis says.

Emissions rose by 29% between 2000 and 2008, says the Global Carbon Project.

All of that growth came in developing countries, but a quarter of it came through production of goods for consumption in industrialised nations.

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