World greenhouse gas emissions rising faster
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 10:49 am
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22765560-2,00.html
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- Sea levels could rise 1.4m by 2100
WORLD greenhouse gas emissions are rising faster and impacts on oceans and the atmosphere are worse than scientists thought
Dr Pearman, former head of the CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research, released a report yesterday showing carbon dioxide emissions are accelerating as is the melting of Arctic and Antarctic ice.
He told a Sydney conference organised by the Centre for Economic Development Australia that carbon dioxide emissions growth exceeded IPCC's most intensive scenarios