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Nature Geoscience 1, 344 (1 June 2008) | doi:10.1038/ngeo219

Climate Science: Globalized carbon emissions

Heike Langenberg

An index that both climate scientists and policy makers anxiously keep track of is national emission rates of carbon dioxide, particularly for China, which has quickly been catching up with the US, hitherto the world's largest emitter of carbon dioxide. Despite all efforts to the contrary, the rates for both China and the world are rapidly going up, rather than down.