Global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel burning jumped by the largest amount on record last year, upending the notion that the brief decline during the recession might persist through the recovery.
Emissions rose 5.9 percent in 2010, according to an analysis released Sunday by the Global Carbon Project, an international collaboration of scientists tracking the numbers.
The combustion of coal represented more than half of the growth in emissions, the report found.
Scientists say the rapid growth of emissions is warming the Earth, threatening the ecology and putting human welfare at long-term risk. But their increasingly urgent pleas that society find a way to limit emissions have met sharp political resistance in many countries, including the United States, because doing so would entail higher energy costs.
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/science/earth/record-jump-in-emissions-in-2010-study-finds.html?ref=earth
I have chosen this new the newspaper "The New York Times" because is important not to forget the role that countries have with the issue of climate change. They must reduce the emission of harmful gases into the atmosphere and invest more green plants and renewable energy so that our planet live longer and better.
By Álvaro López Vidal
