We have four years fewer to slash carbon emissions than thought

mindblowingscience:

There’s more bad news on the climate front: soils in cold climates could release far more carbon than expected as the world warms.

For every half a degree Celsius of warming, this extra carbon could be roughly equivalent to roughly one year’s emissions from all human sources. That makes the task of limiting warming to 2°C even harder, because we have four fewer years to slash emissions.

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We have four years fewer to slash carbon emissions than thought