CO2 Worse Than Predicted

From today's EEI newsletter:

CO2 Emissions Said to Have Surpassed U.N. Panel's Worst Case Scenario

CO2 emissions worldwide increased three times as quickly after 2000 than in the 1990s, Reuters reported, citing a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Study co-author Chris Field, of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, said: "This paper should be a rallying cry." The study found the amount of energy needed to produce one unit of GDP is no longer declining.

Nearly three-quarters of the growth in CO2 emissions since 2004 has come from the developing world, especially from China and India, the study indicated. If accurate, the growth surpasses the most extreme scenario envisioned by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Reuters reported. Co-author Gregg Marland of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory was quoted as saying: "This is at the core of how we live. We're just using more energy and being more consumptive. ... Putting everybody in hybrid cars isn't going to solve this one."
Reuters , May 21.