But much of it takes place in oceans, which are susceptible to the increasing amounts
of carbon dioxide human activity releases into the atmosphere.
Scientists from Columbia and elsewhere will monitor the project to see if this approach could expand to handle the 28 billion metric tons of
carbon dioxide humans emit each year.
The world's leading climate scientists have set out in detail for the first time how much
more carbon dioxide humans can pour into the atmosphere without triggering dangerous levels of...
Since pre-industrial times, the world's oceans have absorbed 41 percent of
the carbon dioxide humans have released into the atmosphere.
«Of
the carbon dioxide human beings put into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation,» Berry says, «roughly a third remains in the atmosphere, a third goes into terrestrial ecosystems, and a third goes into the ocean.»