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Posted on 08/17/2025 2:21:13 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
A new global study reveals that ancient carbon, once thought securely stored in soils and rocks, is leaking into the atmosphere via rivers.
For the first time, researchers have confirmed that carbon trapped in landscapes for thousands of years or longer can return to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide escaping from river surfaces.
The study, led by scientists from the University of Bristol and featured as the cover story in Nature, suggests that plants and upper soil layers may be absorbing about one additional gigaton of CO2 annually to balance this release. This highlights an even more critical role for vegetation and soils in slowing climate change.
Lead author Dr Josh Dean, Associate Professor in Biogeochemistry and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Bristol, said: “The results took us by surprise because it turns out that old carbon stores are leaking out much more into the atmosphere than previous estimates suggested. The implications are potentially huge for our understanding of global carbon emissions. Plants and trees take up CO2 from the atmosphere and can then lock this carbon away in soils for thousands of years.”
He continues, “Our findings show some of this old carbon, as well as ancient carbon from rocks, is leaking sideways into rivers and making its way back to the atmosphere. We don’t yet know how humans are affecting this flow of ancient carbon, but we do know plants and trees must be taking up more carbon from the atmosphere today to account for this unrecognized release of old carbon.”
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So the Greenies will demand no more rivers then???
They’re gonna demand that we put back the dams.
How could humans be causing this?
Sounds like something natural they’re adding to the political cause of ‘climate change’.
We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion-year-old carbon
Truly amazing the vilification of that which is the basis of our life form.
Distilled to its basic form, the carbon cult of the left simply hates human life on earth. And much of animal life, also.
Saw one the other day claiming your dog is killing Gaia. Hell, getting rid of two liberals will more than make up for a dog. And the world will be a happier place.
They want us to tear down all relics of ancient civilizations.
Man, this is really, really bad.
We’re all going to die! AGAIN!!
Quick more zero carbon initiatives. Well, except not on this planet. Fookin’ idjits!
Yet. But we will fund studies that "prove" it is human caused. Surely this Ancient Anthropogenic Abnormality can be tied to cars, eating red meat or some other evil human behavior.
we do know plants and trees must be taking up more carbon from the atmosphere today to account for this unrecognized release of old carbon.”
Too bad plants and trees can’t “take up” carbon released into the atmosphere by human activity...man, if it could do that for man, and not just for “natual” releases, then, why...the climate crisis would be solved!
Amazing, too, how plants and trees know to distinguish which carbons to “take up”.
“...or some other evil human behavior.”
Sorry. I just like me some kasha with varnishkes. Oops. There I go again.
And those of us with a good education say, “carbon cycle”.
Oh, noes!
Wait til it reaches 77 jiggatons!
Carbon is an element, and carbon compounds are organic.
People are idiots, and the elite manipulate them with this propaganda.
Carbon dioxide is 0.04%
Of air.
Carbon does not equal carbon dioxide.
Carbon = C (a solid at room temperature)
Carbon dioxide = CO2 (a gas at room temperature)
In other words, it is physically impossible for carbon to be “leaking into the atmosphere.”
Some of these “scientific writers” are clueless.
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