China’s carbon dioxide emissions are growing much faster than anticipated and are on pace to double during this decade. Prior forecasts of global warming did not take this growth into account, so scientists may have been underestimating how fast global warming would increase.
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080318-china-warming.html