Conversation

"A paper from Cornell by #climate scientists that showed that in 2023 the ability of plants and #soils to absorb #carbon basically dropped to almost nothing. The Tropics were so hot & so dry that they are net emitters & the northern latitudes capacity dropped by *50%*.
The implications are three fold.
1. IPCC models did not predict this until much, much later which means they are assuming that the soil and trees will be absorbing carbon that won't be absorbed. Yet again, the IPCC models are wildly understating the impacts of climate change.
2. In 2022, the oceans absorbed MORE carbon than usual, which may (this is speculative) explain why they are warming so fast - & it is possibly because they also are hitting absorption limits.
3. Unless something changes there is no reason to believe we are not going to experience runaway global warming, & probably are already experiencing it."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12447?