Chinese CO2 output posts 2nd largest increase in recorded history

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"I've said it before and I'll say it again: when it comes to the global climate challenge, as goes China, so goes the world.

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Over the last decade, China's annual emissions of climate destabilizing CO2 jumped by 5 billion tons per year. According to Shakeb Afsah, President and CEO of co2scorecard.org, that's "the highest for a single country in recorded history, representing an average annual emissions increase of almost 12%--more than four times the rate observed the previous decade."

To put unprecedented 5 billion ton increase in annual CO2 emissions in context, Mr Afsah and colleague Kendyl Salcito note that during the 14-year long post-war boom period of 1959-1973, during which U.S. CO2 emissions rose each year, America's annual output of CO2 jumped by only 2 billion tons."

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