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Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the burning of fossil
fuels stood at a record 8.38 gigatons of carbon (GtC) in 2006,
20 percent above the level in 2000. Emissions grew 3.1 percent a
year between 2000 and 2006, more than twice the rate of growth
during the 1990s. Carbon dioxide emissions have been growing
steadily for 200 years, since fossil fuel burning began on a
large scale at the start of the Industrial Revolution. But the
growth in emissions is now accelerating despite unambiguous
evidence that carbon dioxide is warming the planet and
disrupting ecosystems around the globe. In 2000, the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) laid out
projections of how greenhouse gas emissions were likely to
evolve during the twenty-first century due to economic,
demographic, and technological changes. The high-end s