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Scientists Warn Rise In CO2 Signals Increasing Global Warming

HeadlineOct 13, 2004

In science news, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has soared over the past two years raising new concerns that the world may be on the brink of runaway global warming. The Guardian of London reports that some scientists fear that the greater than normal rises in C02 emissions mean that instead of decades to bring global warming under control we may have only a few years. At worst, scientists say the figures could be the first sign of the breakdown in the Earth’s natural systems for absorbing the gas which would make the planet’s soaring temperature become impossible to contain.

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