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Global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel burning jumped by the largest amount on record last year.
Emissions rose 5.9 percent in 2010, according to an analysis released Sunday by the Global Carbon Project, an international collaboration of scientists tracking the numbers. Scientists with the group said the increase, a half-billion extra tons of carbon pumped into the air, was almost certainly the largest absolute jump in any year since the Industrial Revolution and the largest percentage increase since 2003.
The combustion of coal represented more than half of the growth in emissions, the report found.
