Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide
- Type de publi. : Article dans une revue
- Date de publi. : 01/01/2009
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Auteurs :
Corinne Le QuéréMichael RaupachJ. CanadellGregg MarlandLaurent BoppPhilippe CiaisThomas ConwayScott DoneyRichard A. FeelyPru FosterPierre FriedlingsteinKevin GurneyRichard A. HoughtonJoanna HouseChris HuntingfordPeter LevyMark LomasJoseph MajkutNicolas MetzlJean OmettoGlen PetersIain Colin PrenticeJames RandersonSteven RunningJorge L. SarmientoUte SchusterStephen SitchTaro TakahashiNicolas ViovyGuido van der WerfF. Ian Woodward
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Organismes :
British Antarctic Survey
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [Australia]
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [Australia]
Division of Environmental Sciences
Mid Sweden University
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory [Newport]
School of Earth Sciences [Bristol]
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences [West Lafayette]
Woods Hole Research Center
Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie = Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Bush Estate
NERC Centre of Ecology and Hydrology
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences [Sheffield]
Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais [Sao José dos Campos, Brasil] = National Institute for Space Research [Sao José dos Campos, Brazil]
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research [Oslo]
University of Bristol [Bristol]
Montana State University
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program [Princeton]
University of East Anglia [Norwich]
University of Exeter
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences [Amsterdam]
Department of Animal and Plant Sciences [Sheffield]
- Publié dans Nature Geoscience le 26/10/2020
Résumé : Efforts to control climate change require the stabilization of atmospheric CO
2 concentrations. This can only be achieved through a drastic reduction of global CO
2 emissions. Yet fossil fuel emissions increased by 29% between 2000 and 2008, in conjunction with increased contributions from emerging economies, from the production and international trade of goods and services, and from the use of coal as a fuel source. In contrast, emissions from land-use changes were nearly constant. Between 1959 and 2008, 43% of each year's CO
2 emissions remained in the atmosphere on average; the rest was absorbed by carbon sinks on land and in the oceans. In the past 50 years, the fraction of CO
2 emissions that remains in the atmosphere each year has likely increased, from about 40% to 45%, and models suggest that this trend was caused by a decrease in the uptake of CO
2 by the carbon sinks in response to climate change and variability. Changes in the CO
2 sinks are highly uncertain, but they could have a significant influence on future atmospheric CO
2 levels. It is therefore crucial to reduce the uncertainties.
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