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The annual rate of increase in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels has more than tripled in this decade, in comparison to the 1990s, reports an international consortium of scientists, who paint a bleak picture of the Earth's future unless "CO2 emissions [are] drastically reduced". These CO2 emissions increased at a rate of 3.4% per year from 2000 to 2008, in contrast to 1% each year in the prior decade, researchers from the Global Carbon Project report in the current issue of Nature Geoscience. The team comprises some 30 scientists from around the world, including Scott C. Doney, senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Richard A. Houghton, senior scientist and acting director of the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC)........