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Despite the ongoing global recession the output of greenhouse gases rose last year, according to an analysis of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, (NOAA).
At the end of December 2008, researchers measured an additional 16.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide and 12.2 million tons of methane in the atmosphere as a result of fossil fuel production, animal husbandry, rice cultivation, biomass burning, and waste management landfills.
"Only by reducing our dependence on fossil fuels and increasing energy production from renewable resources will we start to see improvements and begin to lessen the effects of climate change," said scientist Pieter Tans of NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado.
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