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we've been speaking to dr pep canadell who's a chief research scientist at the commonwealth scientificch organisation in australia and has sat on the un's intergovernmental panel on climate change. doctor canadell explained a bit more about what these figures mean and what can be done to help the situation. so, to what extent, what we're seeing is a reflection of both the continuing increase in fossil fuel emmisions, but when we see these huge spikes as we have seen in 2024, we see how what we have called the carbon dioxide sinks, that is the ocean and the biosphere, the terrestrial vegetation, the forests of the world, are becoming to be a little less efficient in uptaking carbon dioxide and it is really a response to very high temperatures that we are seeing. so what can be done about that? so, the land sinks and the ocean are responding to global temperatures so the only thing we can do is stabilise the climate as the paris agreement is trying to do and reduce fossil fuel emissions and emissions from deforestation as fast and aggressively as possible. so how worried as individuals s