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Growing feedback from ocean carbon to climate

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The finding that feedbacks between the ocean's carbon cycle and climate may become larger than terrestrial carbon–climate feedbacks has implications for the socio-economic effects of today's fossil-fuel emissions.

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Figure 1: Feedback between climate and the carbon cycle.

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  1. Fortunat Joos is in the Division of Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute and the Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern CH-3012, Switzerland.,

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