Climate Change News: 'Feedback' Found Worsening Of Greenhouse Emission; It Is Not From Humans This Time

As people could feel the alarming effect of climate change, more studies have been conducted. Thus, a huge research that investigates the effects of global warming found that it will just get worse.

The current huge-scale study with no less than 50 authors from all around the world documented a what they call climate system "feedback." The authors claimed that the global warming could be remarkably worse over the coming decades. The study was published in the journal Nature.

In the feedback, they have found that the soil of the planet became a massive depository of carbon because of the plants and roots that have grown and died in them. In many cases, these happened over a vast time period, wherein the plants pull in carbon from the air through photosynthesis and use it to fuel their growth.

Thus, it has been long feared by that as warming rises, the microorganisms present in the soils would "feedback" or respond by very naturally increasing the rate of their respiration. It is a process where, in turn, they release methane or carbon dioxide that is the leading cause of greenhouse gasses.

This concern was validated by the new study. The paper shows that "Our analysis provides empirical support for the long-held concern that rising temperatures stimulate the loss of soil C to the atmosphere, driving a positive land C-climate feedback that could accelerate planetary warming over the twenty-first century," Top News reported.

The long feared feedback of the scientists is here. It means that even the best efforts of the humans to cut their emissions could fall short because there is another source all around the humans -- the planet Earth itself.

The lead researchers with the Netherlands Institute of Ecology's Thomas Crowther shared that, "By taking this global perspective, we're able to see that there is a feedback, and it's actually going to be massive."

The Washington Post reported that the current study is the compilation of 49 empirical studies. The researchers examine the soil carbon emission from research plots across the globe. As follows, the different studies show variable results. Some cases found that the soil actually pulled carbon from the air instead of releasing it.

The researchers, however, insist that there was a pattern globally that was predictable. The soil carbon losses generally contribute to track how much warming a region had seen, as well as on how thick the upper layer was.