Reuters
May 21, 2007

WASHINGTON - World emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide increased three times faster after 2000 than in the 1990s, putting them at the high end of a range of forecasts by an international climate change panel, scientists reported on Monday.

At the same time, a trend toward cutting Earth’s energy intensity — the ratio of how much energy is needed to produce a unit of gross domestic product — appears to have stalled or even reversed in recent years, the researchers reported.

“This paper should be a rallying cry,” said Chris Field, a co-author of the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Read more.