Biggest jump ever seen in global warming gases

[ProSense]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumped by the biggest amount on record, the U.S. Department of Energy calculated, a sign of how feeble the world's efforts are at slowing man-made global warming.

The new figures for 2010 mean that levels of greenhouse gases are higher than the worst case scenario outlined by climate experts just four years ago.

"The more we talk about the need to control emissions, the more they are growing," said John Reilly, co-director of MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

The world pumped about 564 million more tons (512 million metric tons) of carbon into the air in 2010 than it did in 2009. That's an increase of 6 percent. That amount of extra pollution eclipses the individual emissions of all but three countries — China, the United States and India, the world's top producers of greenhouse gases.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/biggest-jump-ever-seen-global-warming-gases-183955211.html

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1. Fiddling while the world burns

Jimi said it best-

I just want to talk to you
I won't uh, do you no harm
I just want to know about your diff'rent lives
On this is here people farm
I heard some of you got your families
Living in cages tall and cold
And some just stay there and dust away
Past the age of old.
Is this true ?
Please let me talk to you.

I just wanna know about
The rooms behind your minds
Uh do I see a vacuum there
Or am I going blind ?
Or is it just uh, remains of vibrations
And echoes long ago ?
Uh things like "Love the world" and uh
Uh "Let your fancy flow"
Is this true ?
Please let me talk to you
Let me talk to you.

I have lived here before
The days of ice
And of course this is why
I'm so concerned
And I come back to find
The stars misplaced
And the smell of a world
That is burned
A smell of a world
That is burned.

Yeah well, maybe, hmm...
Maybe it's just a... change of climate
Hmm, hmm...
Well I can dig it
I can dig it baby
I just want to see.

So where do I purchase my ticket ?
I'd just like to have a ringside seat
I want to know about the new Mother Earth
I want to hear and see everything
I want to hear and see everything
I want to hear and see everything

"Up From The Skies"

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Driving off the cliff in the crazy clown bus

hey but its a heck of a ride!

[Gregorian]

3. Let's just keep breeding. Maybe another billion will make it clearer.

I had an interesting conversation with someone I consider to be brilliant in some ways. He said that after each ice age, we've found evolved life that was refined from what went before. And that perhaps we will see new life at the end of this next one. Of course we were talking about it as if it were inevitable. And unless we address population, AND carbon dioxide, it is inevitable.

[bananas]

5. Technically, we're still in an ice age

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interglacial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age

[Gregorian]

6. There's some really interesting info in that ice age link.

They even mention how we reference ice age colloquially.

[xocet]

4. K & R n/t

[FarLeftFist]

7. Maybe one day the world will admit that Lefties have always been correct after all about everything.

[Turbineguy]

8. The Republicans have a plan to deal with this.

They will kill off a large potion of the world's population.

[fascisthunter]

9. like floating on a wooden raft with idiots who use the wood to burn

[Nihil]

10. "The more we talk about the need to control emissions, the more they are growing"

That's because TALK is all that's being done at anything above
an individual level.

:grr:

> The world pumped about 564 million more tons (512 million metric tons) of carbon
> into the air in 2010 than it did in 2009. That's an increase of 6 percent.
> That amount of extra pollution eclipses the individual emissions of all but three
> countries — China, the United States and India, the world's top producers of
> greenhouse gases.

Remind me: Which selfish profit-grubbing bastards keep blocking any international
attempts to even start addressing the problem?

Ah, yes ... China, the United States and India ...

:nuke: