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Small, Surprising Dip In World's Carbon Emissions Traced To China
NPR
So far, the international climate meeting in Paris has primarily been about words, as diplomats wrestle with the precise language of a treaty. But some surprising climate science was unveiled this week, too — a new measurement of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere that suggests the world's production of the globe-warming gas hastaken a small dip.
Since the 1960s, scientists have tracked what's been an almost inexorable rise in the amount of CO2 in our atmosphere. It's the main contributor to global warming, so more CO2 means more warming.
Last year, however, that rise apparently flattened out. And this year, CO2 emissions around the world actually seem to have dropped slightly, according to a paper published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Science.