Global carbon emissions hit record high in 2012

[NickB79]

http://news.yahoo.com/global-carbon-emissions-hit-record-high-2012-135456456.html

LONDON (Reuters) - China led a rise in global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to a record high in 2012, casting doubt over the chances of limiting global warming to what scientists regard as an acceptable level.

Falls in CO2 emissions by the United States and Europe were offset by China, lifting worldwide emissions by 1.4 percent to 31.6 billion tonnes, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Monday.

Scientists have said that the rise in global average temperature needs to be limited to less than 2 degrees Celsius this century to prevent climate effects such as crop failure and melting glaciers, but that would require emissions to be kept to about 44 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent by 2020.

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"Realistically, we need to see CCS penetrate within the next 10 years - certainly no later than 2025 - or the fossil fuel industry will be caught unprepared," Birol said.

Realistically, that's not going to happen, so we're pretty well fucked. And the fossil fuel industry won't be the ones caught unprepared; they'll get more free passes to keep on keepin' on because, well, economic prosperity/building a better future/blah blah blah. WE'RE the ones who will be caught unprepared. Yep.

[NoOneMan]

1. Record high?

Were they expecting them to go down? Man's continued idiocy is almost non-news

[limpyhobbler]

2. ugh. nt