[font face=Serif][font size=5]Research confirms how global warming links to carbon emissions[/font]

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01 December 2014

[font size=3]Research has identified, for the first time, how global warming is related to the amount of carbon emitted.

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The results show every million-million tonnes of carbon emitted will generate one degree Celsius of global warming. They also show that the build-up of carbon emitted over the last 200 years will then last for many centuries to millennia, even if carbon emissions are subsequently phased out.

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Dr Phil Goodwin, from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, said: “Our analysis highlights the nearly irreversible nature of carbon emissions for global warming. Once carbon has been emitted into the atmosphere the warming effect will last many centuries, even after much of the carbon has been absorbed by the ocean.”

“We cannot wait until after significant anthropogenic warming has occurred to reduce carbon emissions and hope the climate goes back to normal by itself, it won’t.”

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