Agence France-Presse: Carbon snapshot Emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels and cement production reached a new high in 2012, rising 2.2 per cent over 2011 due chiefly to an increase in coal-burning China, scientists say.
Output of CO2 from these sources was a record 35 billion tonnes, 58 per cent above 1990, the benchmark year for calculating greenhouse-gas levels, according to the annual analysis by an international group called the Global Carbon Project.
"Based on estimates of economic activity in 2013,...