Because it contains greenhouse gases from a time before
human emissions complicated the picture, the ancient air offers scientists clues to future climate patterns.
Not exact matches
Climate change
complicates transport
Human - driven
emissions of another kind — carbon — are expected to further
complicate how mercury makes its way around the planet, especially in the Arctic.
According to Dr Brekke, this time period coincides not only with an increase in
human - caused greenhouse gas
emissions, but also with a higher level of solar activity, which makes it
complicated to separate the effects of these two phenomena.
One can make this quite a bit more
complicated, because as you correctly note the magnitude of the gross fluxes (e.g., natural sinks) isn't independent of the atmospheric concentration, so one can't just say that if we removed all
human emissions the net natural flux would still be negative and atmospheric CO2 would be decreasing.
This is further
complicated by some political rejection of science - based future climate projections and unwillingness to consider alternative economic development pathways to lowering the
emission of carbon dioxide and other GHGs from the
Human — Earth systems.