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By Tim Radford, Climate News Network
For the second year running, the world will have a doubtful achievement to claim by 31 December: record carbon emissions.
Even before the close of 2018, scientists behind the biggest accounting effort on the planet, the Global Carbon Budget, warn that emissions from coal, oil and gas will have dumped a record 37 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (a way of comparing the emissions from various greenhouse gases based on their global warming potential) into the atmosphere by the end of this month.
This is 2.7 percent more than last year, which also showed an increase. Human destruction of the world’s forests will add another four billion tonnes in the same 12 months.
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