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Continuous sterane and phytane δ13C record reveals a substantial pCO2 decline since the mid-Miocene - Nature Communications

  2024-06-18 in Nature

Molecular fossils from marine phytoplankton reveal a substantial decline in CO2 values over the past 15 million years and may support higher climate sensitivity than previously reported.

  Tagged under: Science | Global Warming | CO2


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There Are Limits to Storing CO2 Underground To Combat Climate Change, Say Researchers

  2024-08-29 in technologynetworks.com

Research shows that there are limits to how quickly we can scale up technology to store gigatonnes of carbon dioxide under the Earths surface.

  Tagged under: Carbon Capture and Storage | CO2 | Climate Change


Scientists warn of "massive" release from Great Salt Lake

  2024-07-25 in Newsweek

Researcher Soren Brothers said the best way "to keep this CO2 from being released is by ensuring that Great Salt Lake remains wet."

  Tagged under: Water Resources | USA | CO2


Continuous sterane and phytane δ13C record reveals a substantial pCO2 decline since the mid-Miocene - Nature Communications

  2024-06-18 in Nature

Molecular fossils from marine phytoplankton reveal a substantial decline in CO2 values over the past 15 million years and may support higher climate sensitivity than previously reported.

  Tagged under: Science | Global Warming | CO2


Inhibitive Effects of Recent Exceeding Air Temperature Optima of Vegetation Productivity and Increasing Water Limitation on Photosynthesis Reversed Global Greening

  2023-10-10 (or before) in Advancing Earth and Space Sciences Journal

Global terrestrial vegetation dynamics have been rapidly altered by climate change. A widespread vegetation greenness over a large part of the planet from the 1980s to early this century has been reported, whereas weakening of CO2 fertilization effects and increasing climate extremes and the adverse impact of increasing rate of warming and severity of drought on vegetation growth were also reported.

  Tagged under: CO2 | Agriculture | Drought


Is green growth happening? An empirical analysis of achieved versus Paris-compliant CO2–GDP decoupling in high-income countries

  2023-09-05 (or before) in The Lancet

The decoupling rates achieved in high-income countries are inadequate for meeting the climate and equity commitments of the Paris Agreement and cannot legitimately be considered green. If green is to be consistent with the Paris Agreement, then high-income countries have not achieved green growth, and are very unlikely to be able to achieve it in the future. To achieve Paris-compliant emission reductions, high-income countries will need to pursue post-growth demand-reduction strategies, reorienting the economy towards sufficiency, equity, and human wellbeing, while also accelerating technological change and efficiency improvemen...

  Tagged under: Economics | Climate Change | The Paris Agreement | GDP | CO2 | Economic Growth


The Greenhouse Gas Demo

  2023-06-09 (or before) in YouTube

This discusses a short, but very effective and dramatic demo to show the effect on temperature of increased levels of carbon dioxide.

  Tagged under: CO2 | Science


Welcome to Carbon Atlas | Global Carbon Atlas

  2019-12-05 (or before) in Global Carbon Atlas

  Tagged under: Science | Global Warming | CO2


Empirical evidence that humans are causing global warming

  2019-10-25 (or before) in Global Warming and Climate Change skepticism examined

Direct observations find that CO2 is rising sharply due to human activity. Satellite and surface measurements find less energy is escaping to space at CO2 absorption wavelengths. Ocean and surface temperature measurements find the planet continues to accumulate heat. This gives a line of empirical evidence that human CO2 emissions are causing global warming.

  Tagged under: Oceans | Global Warming | Science | CO2 | Climate Change


Atmospheric carbon levels are leaping. We can't afford more years like this

  2019-06-11 in The Guardian

Each year of high emissions adds to the stock of carbon in the air, bringing us closer to catastrophe

  Tagged under: Global Warming | CO2 | Greenhouse Gases


There Were Trees at The South Pole The Last Time There Was This Much CO2 in The Air

  2019-04-04 by in ScienceAlert

There are a lot of different ways to look at our planet's warming climate – such as more extreme weather events, increasing levels of vegetation in the Arctic, and even shifting seasons.

  Tagged under: Trees | Global Warming | Extreme Weather | CO2 | Arctic


The Truth About Greenhouse Gases | William Happer

  2019-03-03 (or before) in First Things | America's Most Influential Journal of Religion & Public Life

The object of the Author in the following pages has been to collect the most remarkable instances . . . .

  Tagged under: Environmental Protection Agency USA | CO2 | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Climate Change | Disinformation and Misinformation


Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change (Published 2018)

  2018-08-01 by in The New York Times

We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves. A tragedy in two acts.

  Tagged under: CO2 | US Politics | Climate Change | Exxon | Greenhouse Gases | Coal | Economics


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