Le Quéré studies how oceans remove carbon from the atmosphere. Outside the lab, she pushes policy makers towards science-driven climate policies. ScientistsYouShouldKnow
“I really quite refuse to let myself be dragged into the emotion,” she says. “If you go there, you can’t really work in this field anymore.”, a professor at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K., researches the carbon cycle — how carbon emissions move between the atmosphere, land and sea. In one of her
, for example, she demonstrated that human activities reduced the Southern Ocean’s capacity to absorb atmospheric CO2.and her colleagues showed that a depleted ozone layer kicked up Antarctic winds. The gusts churned the ocean, lifting carbon dioxide from the deep sea to the surface. The ocean’s top layer, now teeming with deep-sea CO2, had less space to absorb emitted greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
also studies how to reduce CO2 emissions. In 2020, when countries implemented COVID-19 lockdowns, climate scientists wondered whether social confinement reduced the global carbon footprint. She assembled an “emergency team” to figure that out.’s team submitted her findings toThe team’s findings were a reality check on how to address climate change.
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