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http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4638812,00.html

Record levels of carbon dioxide
Scientist says gas in atmosphere rising at accelerated rate

Atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, the gas largely blamed for global warming, have hit record highs and appear to be rising at an accelerating rate, a Boulder scientist said Thursday.
Each year the burning of fossil fuels pumps more than 7 billion tons of carbon into the air in the form of heat-trapping carbon dioxide gas, or CO2 .

The preindustrial carbon dioxide level was 278 parts per million. The current concentration just hit a record 381 ppm, said Pieter Tans, an atmospheric scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder. That's a 37 percent increase.........

"What we're seeing in the atmosphere reflects the fact that we're burning more fossil fuel and we're burning it faster," said NOAA atmospheric scientist Russell Schnell.