| From Commodities-now.com: On September 26, the Global Carbon Project reported that CO2 emissions – mainly from burning fossil fuels – have grown four times faster since 2000. The latest available statistics for 2007 confirm that China has now officially replaced the United States as the world's biggest source of annual carbon emissions.
The new numbers were a surprise to many because scientists thought an economic downturn would slow energy use. Instead, carbon dioxide output jumped to a record high of 9.34 billion tons of carbon, an increase of three percent from 2006 to 2007. The pollution leader was China at two billion tons, followed by the United States at 1.75 billion tons of carbon. India is also poised to soon replace Russia as the third highest emitter, according to the report...... Full Article: Source
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