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World Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Outpace Worst-Case Scenario

Posted by Unknown on from the drill-baby-drill dept.

Layzej writes "The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record in 2010, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated. A chart accompanying the study shows the breakdown by country. The new figures mean that levels of greenhouse gases are higher than the worst case scenario outlined by climate experts just four years ago. It is a 'monster' increase that is unheard of, said Gregg Marland, a professor of geology at Appalachian State University, who has helped calculate Department of Energy figures in the past. The question now among scientists is whether the future is the IPCC's worst case scenario or something more extreme."

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  1. Oh noes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It can't be so! If it has gone up like that, temperatures world-wide must already be up by nearly 10 degrees C, right? That's what the profits (er, prophets?) of doom have been telling us! Searing heat all over the world! Devastation everywhere!

    Oh, wait... Temps are going down? How can that be?

  2. Re:Models are always right! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You're quoting wattsupwiththat as if it's credible?

    You know he can't even quote himself correctly, right?

  3. Re:Models are always right! by Third+Position · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What I wonder is why Climate scientists are estimating CO2 levels, rather than theorizing effects of CO2, or showing how CO2 has affected climate in the past. This only proves that they're not scientists, but alarmists.

    Scientist: A political activist that also tries to take credit for advances actually developed by engineers, entrepreneurs and lay inventors.

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    American Third Position
    Finally, a real choice!