Friday, December 31, 2010

After a wasted year, climate change must once again be our priority


There is no doubt that greenhouse gas emissions are rising remorselessly. We must sideline the sceptics

On an observatory 11,000 feet high on Mauna Loa, a volcano in Hawaii, a pair of ageing, automated detectors have been churning out details about the make-up of our atmosphere for several decades. This month, they produced their most alarming result to date. They showed that carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have touched 390 parts per million – a 40% increase on pre-industrial levels.

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