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And then there's this; 2014-2023 the land had been absorbing 3.22Gt/year of carbon. In 2024 there was a ‘striking decline’ of 1.1Gt. That is, the land had suddenly stopped absorbing about a third of the CO2 that it had done in the previous 10 years: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Respiration‐Induced Weakening of Land Sink Contributed to the Largest <fc>CO<sub>2</sub></fc> Increase in 2024
In 2024, the global CO2 growth rate (CGR) reached an unprecedented 3.73 ± 0.09 ppm year-1, marking a record high since observations began in 1959. However, the underlying causes of this unprecedented...
