<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">“The notion is pervasive in the climate science community and in the public at large that the climate impacts of fossil fuel CO2 release will only persist for a few centuries. This conclusion has no basis in theory or models of the atmosphere/ocean carbon cycle, which we review here. The largest fraction of the CO2 recovery will take place on time scales of centuries, as CO2 invades the ocean, but a significant fraction of the fossil fuel CO2, ranging in published models in the literature from 20–60%, remains airborne for a thousand years or longer. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">Ultimate recovery takes place on time scales of hundreds of thousands of years, a geologic longevity typically associated in public perceptions with nuclear waste.”</span><br class=""><br class="">David Archer & Victor Brovkin. The millennial atmospheric lifetime of anthropogenic CO2. <div class="">Climatic Change (2008) 90:283–297 </div><div class="">DOI 10.1007/s10584-008-9413-1</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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