The earth’s ability to soak up the gases causing global warming is beginning to fail because of rising temperatures, in a long-feared sign of “positive feedback,” new research revealed Friday. Climate change itself is weakening one of the principal “sinks” absorbing carbon dioxide — the Southern Ocean around Antarctica — a new study has found. As a result, atmospheric CO2 levels may rise faster and bring about rising temperatures more quickly than previously anticipated. Stabilizing the CO2 level is likely to become much more difficult.
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