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Carbon emissions increased by massive 29% between 2000 and 2008
18/11/2009 by admin.
According to the Global Carbon Project, carbon emissions increased by a whopping 29% between the years 2000 and 2008. If it carries on this way, average global temperatures could increase by upto 6C, much higher than the 2C increase that is often talked about.
The average person now consumes goods and services equivalent to 1.3 tonnes of carbon, compared with 1.1 tonnes in the year 2000. THE GCP says that if we want to keep the average global temperature rise to 2C, this would have to be reduced dramatically to just 0.3 tonnes by 2050.
At the moment, this looks like it is going to be hard to reach. More details on the Global Carbon Project website and the BBC News website.
I’m just surprised that this type of news does not make bigger headlines in the world’s press.
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