Sentences with phrase «of human carbon emissions»

It concluded that due to the amount of human carbon emissions in the atmosphere, the planet has reached 3 to 7 degrees Celsius of global warming.

Oceans absorb half of all human carbon emissions, but the Southern Ocean is taking up less and less and is reaching its saturation point, reported an international research team in the journal Science.

Forests soak up roughly 25 percent of human carbon emissions, but some models suggest that by the end of the century the world's forests could flip from a critical carbon sink to a major source.

That means if plants around the world continue to adjust to rising carbon dioxide concentrations, increasing their biomass on a global scale, they could actually help offset some of our human carbon emissions by removing more carbon dioxide from the air.