According to researchers, oceans are heading towards irreversible damage and a geoengineering technique to remove carbon from the atmosphere is also not good enough to save them. German researchers say that there is not better remedy to the problem than stop burning fossil fuels now.

A study led by Thomas Gasser of the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, near Paris, measured the trade-off between reducing emissions and carbon-removing technologies.

Scientists wrote in Nature Communications, “This study suggests that negative emissions alone are unlikely to be the panacea that will limit global warming below 2C and that conventional mitigation – that is, reduced consumption of fossil fuels – should remain a significant part of any climate policy aiming at this target”.

The task of restoring ocean conditions to their pre-industrial state can’t be achieved by even removing 2.5 times all the carbon now released annually into the atmosphere until the year 2700.

Marine creatures like shrimps, clams and corals struggle to find the raw material they use to build their shells and exoskeletons because of increased acidification of oceans.

The top 10 polluting countries in the world are: China, United States, Russia, Japan, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom and South Korea. These are the countries that emit the highest carbon dioxide emissions from all forms of industry and fossil fuel consumption.

It’s high time for these countries to take swift actions to cut down carbon emissions to save our planet from the catastrophic effects of climate change.

US President Barak Obama has come with a Clean Energy Plan, which was announced last Monday, aiming at power production without burning fossil fuels.