The accuracy of climate models depends on many factors \u2013 greenhouse gas emissions from industrial and transport activities, \u201clivestock emissions\u201d, urban growth and forest loss, and solar reflections from snow and soil cover. Natural phenomena such as volcanic eruptions also contribute and are included in the models.<\/p>\n
But some other natural processes have been overlooked. Farshid Vahedifard, professor and Louis Berger Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering, points to an important element that lies right beneath our feet, covering most of our planet above water.<\/p>\n
In a study published in\u00a0Environmental Research Letters<\/i> Vahedifard notes that soil stores 80 % of the Earth\u2019s carbon, and as drought cycles and severity increase in several regions, this key reservoir is cracking and breaking down, releasing even more carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In fact, this could create an amplified feedback loop that could accelerate climate change well beyond current predictions. (Mike Silver, Tufts University, more at phys.org<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The accuracy of climate models depends on many factors \u2013 greenhouse gas emissions from industrial and transportation activities, \u201clivestock emissions\u201d, urban growth and forest loss, and solar reflections from snow and soil cover. Natural phenomena such as volcanic eruptions also contribute and are included in the models. But some other natural processes have been overlooked. Farshid Vahedifard, a professor and [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}