‘In the United States, carbon emissions leapt back up, making their largest year-over-year increase since the end of the Great Recession. This matched the trend across the globe. According to two major studies, greenhouse-gas emissions worldwide shot up in 2018\u00e2\u20ac\u201daccelerating like a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153speeding freight train,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as one scientist put it.’<\/p>\n