In environmental news, a new study says the rise in carbon dioxide emissions has outpaced even the most dire scientific projections. The Global Carbon Project says CO2 emissions rose nearly three percent last year. That’s at the high end of the projections from the world’s leading scientific panel on global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Researchers say the rise could mean a global temperature increase of eleven degrees by the end of the century. Climate scientists have warned of massive environmental catastrophe if increases in carbon dioxide emissions top three percent.