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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Continue to Rise

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Dec 7, 2018

Global fossil fuel emissions are on track to rise for a second year in a row, primarily due to growing energy use, according to new estimates from the Global Carbon Project, an initiative led by Stanford University scientist Rob Jackson(link is external). Related media coverage:
 

Are We Living Through Climate Change’s Worst-Case Scenario?(link is external) – The Atlantic, Jan. 15, 2019

Trump Imperils the Planet (link is external)The New York Times, Dec. 26, 2018

Coal for Christmas at the U.N. Climate Conference(link is external)The New Yorker, Dec. 17, 2018

Greenhouse gas emissions are rising, again(link is external) – MPR News, Dec. 13, 2018

The threat of climate change hasn’t curbed our carbon emissions—they’re at a record high(link is external)Popular Science, Dec. 7, 2018

Global industrial carbon emissions to reach all-time high in 2018(link is external) – Nature, Dec. 7, 2018

Are the goals of the Paris Accord slipping out of reach?(link is external)PBS NewsHour, Dec. 7, 2018

The Human Fossil-Fuel Addiction: Greenhouse Emissions Soar to Record Levels(link is external)Live Science, Dec. 7, 2018

CO2 Emissions Reached an All-Time High in 2018 (link is external)Scientific American, Dec. 6, 2018

We’re Destroying the Climate Even Faster Than We’d Thought(link is external)New York, Dec. 6, 2018

The Truth About These Climate Change Numbers(link is external) – Rolling Stone, Dec. 6, 2018

Everyday people are feeling effects of climate change, says scientist(link is external)The Hill, Dec. 6, 2018

The Energy 202: Carbon emissions were flat only two years ago. Not anymore.(link is external)Washington Post, Dec. 6, 2018

Carbon dioxide emissions rise in 2018, scientists say(link is external)Fox News, Dec. 6, 2018

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accelerate Like a ‘Speeding Freight Train’ in 2018(link is external)New York Times, Dec. 5, 2018

‘We are in trouble.’ Global carbon emissions reached a record high in 2018.(link is external)Washington Post, Dec. 5, 2018

Emissions of carbon dioxide into Earth's atmosphere reach record high(link is external)USA Today, Dec. 5, 2018

So much for that hope of reaching peak climate emissions(link is external)MIT Technology Review, Dec. 5, 2018

Global Emissions Climb to Record Highs, Reversing Three Years of Declines(link is external) – U.S. News, Dec. 5, 2018

Carbon emissions to hit all-time high, says report(link is external) – CNN, Dec. 5, 2018

Cars and coal help drive 'strong' CO2 rise in 2018(link is external)BBC, Dec. 5, 2018

A Little Good News About Climate Change for Once(link is external)Bloomberg, Dec. 5, 2018

Climate reality check: Global carbon pollution up in 2018(link is external)AP, Dec. 5, 2018

Global carbon emissions in 2018 are set to rise—a lot(link is external)Quartz, Dec. 5, 2018

A new, grim milestone in the growth of carbon dioxide emissions across the world(link is external) Washington Post, Dec. 5, 2018

Carbon emissions will reach 37 billion tonnes in 2018, a record high(link is external) – The Conversation, Dec. 5, 2018

Carbon Dioxide Emissions Are Up Again. What Now, Climate?(link is external) – NPR, Dec. 5, 2018

Carbon emissions rise again in 2018, new report finds(link is external)Axios, Dec. 5, 2018

Global Carbon Emissions Are Predicted to Hit Record High in 2018(link is external)Vice, Dec. 5, 2018

Worldwide Carbon Emissions Show Biggest Jump in 7 Years(link is external)KQED, Dec. 5, 2018

Fight against greenhouse gases stalls as emissions soar to new record(link is external)San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 5, 2018

Why fossil fuel emissions are increasing — again(link is external) – San Jose Mercury News, Dec. 5, 2018

World hits another alarming carbon emissions mark(link is external)CBS News, Dec. 5, 2018

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