The Rising Threat of Atmospheric CO2: A Review on the Causes, Impacts, and Mitigation Strategies

LJR Nunes - Environments, 2023 - mdpi.com
The increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere have become a major
environmental challenge due to their contribution to global warming. The primary drivers of …

Subducting carbon

T Plank, CE Manning - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
A hidden carbon cycle exists inside Earth. Every year, megatons of carbon disappear into
subduction zones, affecting atmospheric carbon dioxide and oxygen over Earth's history …

Global warming in the pipeline

JE Hansen, M Sato, L Simons… - Oxford Open Climate …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Improved knowledge of glacial-to-interglacial global temperature change yields Charney
(fast-feedback) equilibrium climate sensitivity 1.2±0.3° C (2σ) per W/m2, which is 4.8° C±1.2° …

Global plate boundary evolution and kinematics since the late Paleozoic

KJ Matthews, KT Maloney, S Zahirovic… - Global and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Many aspects of deep-time Earth System models, including mantle convection,
paleoclimatology, paleobiogeography and the deep Earth carbon cycle, require high …

Reevaluating carbon fluxes in subduction zones, what goes down, mostly comes up

PB Kelemen, CE Manning - Proceedings of the National …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Carbon fluxes in subduction zones can be better constrained by including new estimates of
carbon concentration in subducting mantle peridotites, consideration of carbonate solubility …

COPSE reloaded: an improved model of biogeochemical cycling over Phanerozoic time

TM Lenton, SJ Daines, BJW Mills - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The 'COPSE'(Carbon, Oxygen, Phosphorus, Sulphur and Evolution)
biogeochemical model predicts the coupled histories and controls on atmospheric O 2, CO 2 …

Continental arc volcanism as the principal driver of icehouse-greenhouse variability

NR McKenzie, BK Horton, SE Loomis, DF Stockli… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Variations in continental volcanic arc emissions have the potential to control atmospheric
carbon dioxide (CO2) levels and climate change on multimillion-year time scales. Here we …

The emissions of CO2 and other volatiles from the world's subaerial volcanoes

TP Fischer, S Arellano, S Carn, A Aiuppa, B Galle… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Volcanoes are the main pathway to the surface for volatiles that are stored within the Earth.
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is of particular interest because of its potential for climate forcing …

Ingassing, storage, and outgassing of terrestrial carbon through geologic time

R Dasgupta - Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Earth is unique among the terrestrial planets in our solar system in having a fluid envelope
that fosters life. The secrets behind Earth's habitable climate are well-tuned cycles of carbon …

Tectonic evolution and deep mantle structure of the eastern Tethys since the latest Jurassic

S Zahirovic, KJ Matthews, N Flament, RD Müller… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The breakup of Pangea in the Jurassic saw the opening of major ocean basins at the
expense of older Tethyan and Pacific oceanic plates. Although the Tethyan seafloor …