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because

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011606R.shtml


Global Warming to Speed Up as Carbon Levels Show Sharp Rise
By Geoffrey Lean
The Independent UK

Sunday 15 January 2006

Global warming is set to accelerate alarmingly because of a sharp jump
in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Preliminary figures, exclusively obtained by The Independent on Sunday,
show that levels of the gas - the main cause of climate change - have risen
abruptly in the past four years. Scientists fear that warming is entering a
new phase, and may accelerate further.

But a summit of the most polluting countries, convened by the Bush
administration, last week refused to set targets for reducing their carbon
dioxide emissions. Set up in competition to the Kyoto Protocol, the summit,
held in Sydney and attended by Australia, China, India, Japan and South
Korea as well as the United States, instead pledged to develop cleaner
technologies - which some experts believe will not arrive in time.

The climb in carbon dioxide content showed up in readings from the US
government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, taken at the
summit of Mauna Loa, Hawaii. The measurements have been taken regularly
since 1958 in the 11,400ft peak's pristine conditions, 2,000 miles from the
nearest landmass and protected by unusual climatic conditions from the
pollution of Hawaii, two miles below.

Through most of the past half-century, levels of the gas rose by an
average of 1.3 parts per million a year; in the late 1990s, this figure rose
to 1.6 ppm, and again to 2ppm in 2002 and 2003. But unpublished figures for
the first 10 months of this year show a rise of 2.2ppm.

Scientists believe this may be the first evidence that climate change is
starting to produce itself, as rising temperatures so alter natural systems
that the Earth itself releases more gas, driving the thermometer ever
higher.