Just published, the most comprehensive GHG budget for South Asia, dominated by India.
South Asia's Ecosystems Are a Net Carbon Sink, But the Region Is a Major Net GHG Source to the Atmosphere - Jain - 2025 - Global Biogeochemical Cycles
https://t.co/nnZrH0ZfBo
After net zero CO2 emissions do you want to halt or continue global warming?
If you want to halt global warming, the point of getting to net zero emissions, then define zero correctly!
The key is how “removals” are defined & the role humans play.
https://t.co/OF2ckXoqef
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🚨ANNOUNCEMENT! 🚨
We have a new Greenhouse Gas Monitoring & Services webpage!
This new resource offers a one-stop platform for @NOAA-wide GHG information, news, emissions, data, tools, science explainers, reports, assessments, & educational resources.
https://t.co/BJDQTa4Ij7
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We have just published the new @gcarbonproject Global Carbon Budget, 2024.
It contains a mix of bad news and some less bad news. The latter signals some progress, albeit slow, towards decarbonizing the global economy.
https://t.co/rwFiBkgAOj
📢Global Carbon Budget 2024📢
Despite some predicting a peak in global fossil CO2 emissions, we estimate growth of 0.8% [-0.3% to 1.9%] in 2024. Maybe a peak next year?
Is it all bad news, or can we find some good news?
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Is land use a source or a sink of CO2 globally?
📢The report of the IPCC Expert Meeting on “Reconciling Anthropogenic Land Use Emissions” is out https://t.co/J4ndqULwqV
🔈It will be presented at an IPCC event during COP29, Sat. 16th Nov., 11am Baku time. https://t.co/AOzPoJNN2w
How much carbon is coming out of the northern permafrost region?
We have put together the first complete Greenhouse Gas budget of the region.
https://t.co/ZTyDWROqWS
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The region of most concern for carbon-climate feedbacks in a warmer world is the permafrost region.
We don't even know well its current GHG balance.
As part of the @gcarbonproject RECCAP2, Gustaf Hugelius led the development of the most comprehensive GHG Budget to date.
Our ambitious experiment in the Amazon rainforest - @amazonface
6 rings of towers: 3 will keep CO2 levels within them high so we can study how rainforest trees respond. eg. does growth keep increasing at high CO2?
Crucial knowledge for calculating future carbon budgets
📢Latest news!🌲A study published TODAY in @Nature has demonstrated, for the first time, that trees capture #methane, a greenhouse gas responsible for around 30% of global warming, our researcher Josep Barba is one of the authors! 👏👏 Don’t miss the full story 🧵
Who are Indians descended from? Aryans from Europe? Dravidians who've been "here" forever? The Indus valley civilization?
A controversial question for 150+ years, but now we have DNA evidence that answers these questions with a high degree of certainty.
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On 9-11 July, the IPCC held a Meeting on 'Reconciling Land Use Emissions' at #JRC, with >100 participants from 48 countries, including many world's leading experts in carbon modelling, Earth Observation, and national inventories.
Why land use emissions need to be reconciled?
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