CO2 turned into stone in Iceland in climate change breakthrough

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14. True, but we don't appear to have time to do that anymore

At best, we've finally hit a carbon emissions plateau for the past two years (though it's debatable whether this is from real carbon cuts, or just from China's economy slowing down dramatically).

On the other hand, even on this plateau, we've seen atmospheric carbon emissions jumping 4ppm year over year in recent years, an insanely fast amount that means we stand no chance of staying below 2C of warming if it continues. It's now been proposed that the reason we're seeing such a spike is because we've saturated the planet's carbon sinks: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1127100435

If true, that means Mother Earth just bumped up the point of no return with regard to global warming by many years. In the meantime, we're still clinging to IPCC reports and the Paris Accords that assume we have decades to get a handle on this threat.