13 Scary Facts about Global Warming
A FEW FACTS
35% -- Increase in the global carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels since the Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1992.
34% -- Percentage that 2008's Arctic seasonal sea ice melt outpaced normal levels.
$427 million -- Amount spent by the oil and coal industries in the first six months of 2008 in political contributions, lobbying expenditures and advertising to oppose climate action.