CO2 Emissions Exceed "Worst-Case Scenario"

—By April Rabkin

| Tue May. 22, 2007 2:40 PM PDT

Recent carbon dioxide emissions exceed the "worst-case scenario" scientists predicted in the IPCC report in 2001. Meanwhile, the Antarctic Ocean is absorbing less carbon dioxide. And the Antarctic is thawing.

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