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Researchers discover that extreme El Niño events cause short-term CO₂ fluctuations

Sensitivity of AGR to tropical MAT (γT) over a 25-year moving window from 1959 to 2020 (see Materials and Methods). Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adl6155 Recent research challenges previous assumptions about the relationship between atmospheric carbon dioxide and tropical temperatures. Between 1959 and 2011, atmospheric CO₂ content responded twice as strongly to temperatures in the tropics than before. This…