UN: CO2 pollution levels at annual record high

[Redfairen]

Source: Associated Press

World carbon dioxide pollution levels in the atmosphere are accelerating and reached a record high in 2012, the U.N. weather agency said Wednesday.

The heat-trapping gas, pumped into the air by cars and smokestacks, was measured at 393.1 parts per million last year, up 2.2 ppm from the previous year, said the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization in its annual greenhouse gas inventory.

That is far beyond the 350 ppm that some scientists and environmental groups promote as the absolute upper limit for a safe level.

As the chief gas blamed for global warming, carbon dioxide's 2012 increase outpaced the past decade's average annual increase of 2.02 ppm.


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[OneCrazyDiamond]

1. BRIC Countries?

US emissions are on the down trend thankfully.
I read Brazil's emissions are down too, RIC countries.

http://www.cato.org/blog/thanks-natural-gas-climate-change-us-carbon-dioxide-emissions-continue-downward-trend

[AverageJoe90]

2. I'm afraid this isn't news.....

Co2 has been going up for many years now and will continue until it is stopped, at least to the point were the Earth can absorb more than what we belch out every year.....