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Slowing sink? [1]

So far, the oceans have protected us from the full force of anthropogenic climate change. The global ocean is the largest active carbon sink on Earth, and since the industrial revolution it has soaked up around one third of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
Stephanie Baudains [2]
Nature Geoscience [3]
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Climate Change [4], Oceans and Seas [5], Climate Science [6], Carbon Sinks [7]
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