Study: Increased Tropical Temperatures `Doubled` Carbon Emissions Since Last 50 Years

A one degree rise in tropical temperature leads to around two billion extra tonnes of carbon being released per year into the atmosphere from tropical ecosystems, a new study has found. This is very high as compared with the same tropical warming in the 1960s and 1970s. Researchers have said that the tropical carbon cycle has become twice as sensitive to temperature variations over the last half century. Professor Pierre Friedlingstein and Professor ...

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