Heat-trapping carbon pollution drops, but scientists cite the Iran war rather than energy progress
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Global carbon pollution dropped this year ever so slightly, but it's more because of oil shocks reverberating from the Iran war than anything the world has done to fight climate change, scientists said in a new study.
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[Claude] Report 2 is the same story under a near-identical headline, adding the specific emissions figures (42.2 billion tonnes, a 0.4% drop) from the same Global Carbon Project study, and it does not contradi
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