Analysis: ‘Where Did All The CO2 Go?’ — ‘As humans have emitted more carbon dioxide Earth has stepped up its carbon capture’
'Carbon uptake is not diminishing; in fact, it has actually doubled over the last five decades. Without that doubling humanity would have added more than twice the amount of CO2 to the atmosphere than we did...there is a negative feedback working to mitigate atmospheric CO2 buildup'
‘If CO2 emissions were to decline would nature return atmospheric CO2 levels to lower, even preindustrial levels relatively quickly?’