Even if carbon dioxide emissions came to a sudden halt, the carbon dioxide already in Earth's atmosphere could continue to warm our planet for hundreds of years, according to research led by first author and AOS collaborator Thomas Frolicher and published Nov. 24 in the journal Nature Climate Change. The study, co-authored by AOS Director Jorge Sarmiento and Mike Winton, a GFDL oceanographer, suggests that it might take a lot less carbon than previously thought to reach the global temperature scientists deem unsafe.  Frolicher conducted the work as an AOS postdoc in
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