That bodes ill for climate change
MATHEMATICAL MODELS of climate change predict that the severity of natural disasters will increase as the world warms. The cyclone that hit Mozambique on March 14th, killing perhaps 1,000 people, has further focused attention on the risks posed by rising temperatures. Even so, the man-made carbon emissions that drive global warming continue to grow. According to a new report from the International Energy Agency , a think-tank based in Paris, energy-related CO2 emissions rose by 1.
Carbon emissions have been driven higher by increasing demand for all types of energy. Broadly speaking, changes in energy demand track the fortunes of the world economy. Robust global GDP growth of 3.7% last year caused energy demand to rise by some 2.3%, its fastest pace for a decade.
Perhaps the most worrying finding in the report is the threat of a feedback loop between severe weather events and carbon emissions. According to the IEA, a hotter-than-average summer and colder-than-average winter led to greater use of heating and air conditioning, which together were responsible for about half of the rise in energy demand in America and roughly a fifth of the worldwide increase.
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