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Worldwide industrial emissions of carbon dioxide — the main gas tied to manmade global warming — jumped 3 percent last year, international scientists said Thursday.

(Geological Society of America) More than 10,000 international scientists, professionals, educators and students will gather at the George R.

Brown Convention Center in Houston Oct. 5-9, 2008, to discuss the latest research and trends in energy, water resources, climate change, agriculture, science education, earth sciences and related disciplines.

This first-ever joint annual meeting is a collaboration that showcases the sciences of the sponsoring organizations.

Knowing that soils are a potential climate change time-bomb is nothing new -- but now, for the first time, a group of international scientists have found a way to distinguish just how much of these ancient carbon stores are being lost to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide.

This means that in the future they may be able to accurately forecast how loss of soil carbon will impact on climate change.

The kilogram is losing weight and many international scientists, including some at Sandia National Laboratories, agree that it’s time to redefine it.

Scientists are hoping to redefine the kilogram by basing it on standards of universal constants rather than on an artifact standard.

"The idea is to replace the single master kilogram with something based on physical constants, rather than an artifact that could be damaged accidentally," says mechanical engineer Hy Tran, a project leader at the Primary Standards Laboratory at Sandia.