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Letter: Look to the oceans for causes of climate chaos

Published 12 March 2025

From Bruce Denness, Niton, Isle of Wight, UK

What can explain atmospheric carbon dioxide at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii increasing by a record-breaking 3.58 parts per million in 2024? As well as forest fires and our failure to stop burning fossil fuels, I suggest the oceans, hitherto a big sink for taking up CO2 from the atmosphere, have become saturated (25 January, p 13).

Issue no. 3534 published 15 March 2025

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