Global CO2 Output Up 50 Per Cent since 1990

Might as well just give up, burn our way to the apocalypse at this point.

Just as climate change talks in Durban, South Africa, begin their second week, new data shows that humanity's carbon dioxide emissions have grown by 50 per cent over the past 20 years. The study, led by Corinne Le Quere of the University of East Anglia, found that emissions have increased by about 3 per cent each year, although last year they increased by a not-insignificant 5.9 per cent. The data was all measured from the same year of the targets for emissions reductions laid out in the Kyoto accord – 1990. Under Kyoto, most developed countries would have had to have lowered their emissions by 2012 to what they were in 1990, a target that has obviously done nothing to stop the increase in carbon emissions. Not having the U.S., Brazil, India, or China be affected by the treaty's provisions kind of has that effect. Ah well. Better luck next time, international climate negotiators.