Atmospheric CO2 Rise In 2005 Nearing 2X Historic Average - Now 2.2 PPM

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In other words, when Charlie Keeling began recording data in 1958, annual increases were 1.3 ppm. For the first 10 months of 2005, it looks like 2.2 ppm.

Say goodnight, Gracie.

Global warming is set to accelerate alarmingly because of a sharp jump in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Preliminary figures, exclusively obtained by The Independent on Sunday, show that levels of the gas - the main cause of climate change - have risen abruptly in the past four years. Scientists fear that warming is entering a new phase, and may accelerate further.

But a summit of the most polluting countries, convened by the Bush administration, last week refused to set targets for reducing their carbon dioxide emissions. Set up in competition to the Kyoto Protocol, the summit, held in Sydney and attended by Australia, China, India, Japan and South Korea as well as the United States, instead pledged to develop cleaner technologies - which some experts believe will not arrive in time.

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Through most of the past half-century, levels of the gas rose by an average of 1.3 parts per million a year; in the late 1990s, this figure rose to 1.6 ppm, and again to 2ppm in 2002 and 2003. But unpublished figures for the first 10 months of this year show a rise of 2.2ppm.

Scientists believe this may be the first evidence that climate change is starting to produce itself, as rising temperatures so alter natural systems that the Earth itself releases more gas, driving the thermometer ever higher.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article338689.ece

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1. I have it on good authority...

that technology will save us, in 20 years or so.
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2. Yes, I hear a (as in one, single) high-tech carbon sequestering coal plant

Will be built soon - oh, by 2012 or 2015 or something like that. This, surely, will be our collective salvation!!!!!

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