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Earth Wins Time as Land & Seas Absorb More Carbon

2015-05-17 18:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate News Network: Half of all the carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels remain in the atmosphere. The good news is that only half remain in the atmosphere, while the rest have been taken up by the living world and then absorbed into the land, and the ocean. That is, as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have risen, so also has the planets capacity to soak up atmospheric carbon. The implication is that what engineers call positive feedback-in which global warming triggers the release of yet more greenhouse...

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