Zeke Hausfather on Nostr: The carbon cycle has been close to equilibrium through the Holocene; we know this ...
The carbon cycle has been close to equilibrium through the Holocene; we know this because we measure atmospheric CO2 concentrations in ice cores. But in the past few centuries CO2 has increased by 50%, and is now at the highest level in millions of years due to human emissions.
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