Not exact matches
Moreover, the
ocean (which has been responsible for absorbing as much as 80 % of anthropogenic emissions) can become saturated, or as temperatures rise in the temperate regions or winds increase in
arctic regions and stir up
carbon dioxide from below, act as an emitter.
Karl Schroeder: If there is any life on Earth in 100 years, I foresee either an ecological catastrophe, with the majority of species extinct, the
oceans stagnant, the
arctic and Antarctic desolate and lifeless, and billions of people living in complete ignorance of how things could be, in massive urban centres; or, a world in which climate change was solved early and completely through innovations in power generation and
carbon sequestration, where agriculture has gone to vertical farming and North America has largely been rewilded back to forest and open prairie, and where extinct species are regularly recreated by genetic engineering and reintroduced.
Instead, world leaders have pandered and caved to the powerful fossil fuel lobby: rubber stamping massive
carbon - intensive infrastructure, unlocking billions of tonnes of new
carbon in hard - to - reach places like the deep offshore
ocean, the
arctic, or hard - to - extract resources like tar sands, and proceeded to design energy policy around scenarios incompatible with a safe global climate.
Figure 9 - A Effect of the doubling of the
carbon dioxide content of the air: note on the lowest graphic the 7 °C hot spot at 250 mbar and on the middle graphic +12 °C in winter on the rim of Antarctica and on the
arctic polar cycle, +5 °C over the Sahara, +4 °C over the whole Pacific
ocean.