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Cancun, Mexico, warning that the temperature of the Earth will be getting hotter not groundless, because the CO2 pollution continues to increase lately. Even by 2010, emissions of greenhouse gases triggers it reached a record high that is 30.6 Gigatonnes.
This data is revealed in a meeting of the International Energy Agency (IEA), which took place in November-December 2010 in Cancun, Mexico. During the meeting, the participants who are representative of various countries agreed to limit the increase in the maximum temperature of the Earth 2'C.
Emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) by 30.6 Gigatonnes (Gt) is the highest record so far, 5 percent higher than the record year 2008 ie 29.3 Gt. Yet according to IAE, CO2 emissions had dropped in 2009 following the oil crisis in many countries.
Residual oil combustion are large enough contribution to CO2 pollution in the air, namely by 36 percent. But the biggest contributor of CO2 emissions is coal combustion, which is 44 percent while the combustion of gas fuel only 20 percent.
Berdsasarkan comparison of the number of particles, CO2 emissions in 2010 is 450 parts per million (ppm). This figure also increased by 5 percent compared to data released by the year 2000, which was carrying about 430 ppm.
"Hard to believe, the world has experienced extraordinary levels of pollution and should not occur before 2020," said one spokesman for IAE, Faith Britol as quoted from Medicalnewstoday, Wednesday (06/01/2011).
CO2 emissions are often referred to as greenhouse gases because it is able to withstand the heat loss from the surface of the earth. The result is global warming or the increase in temperature across the surface of the Earth, like being in a greenhouse.
