Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new record high in 2011, the World Meteorological Organization has said.

BBC: Greenhouse gases hit record high

Sinclair had also had a hit record the previous year when he was the lead voice on the Scotland football team's World Cup record We Have a Dream.

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The future of clean tech is already looking bright, as the world's solar power capacity just hit a record 101 gigawatts, and researchers found a new way to charge batteries by harvesting ambient electromagnetic waves from thin air.

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Recently, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new record high in 2011.

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He convinced Nigel Mangan, an Irishman preparing to break the Guinness World Record for most consecutive golf balls hit in 12 hours, to use a Hirzl glove on each hand instead of the Bionic gloves he was training with before.

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The year also saw Arctic sea ice hit a record low in more than 30 years of satellite observations and studies that found the world's major ice sheets have been shrinking at an increasing rate.

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