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Saturday, October 20, 2007

ATMOSPHERIC CO2 BOOM: IT'S THE OCEANS, STUPID

BBC:
The amount of carbon dioxide being absorbed by the world's oceans has reduced, scientists have said.

University of East Anglia researchers gauged CO2 absorption through more than 90,000 measurements from merchant ships equipped with automatic instruments.

Results of their 10-year study in the North Atlantic show CO2 uptake halved between the mid-90s and 2000 to 2005.

Scientists believe global warming might get worse if the oceans soak up less of the greenhouse gas.

OF COURSE, THE ICE CORES SHOW THIS IS A LAGGING INDICATOR AND NOT A CAUSE...

BUT IF I WERE TO POINT TO A CAUSE IT WOULD BE THE OVEANS: THEY'RE MASSIVE... THEY'RE ... OCEANIC!

SERIOUSLY: THEIR ABILITY TO ADD OR DETRACT TO OUR CLIMATE IS BIGGER THAN ANTHROPOGENIC INPUTS.

1 comment:

DavidCyrus said...

Any commentary on the scientific fact that warmer and more saturated liquids dissolve less gasses than cooler and less saturated liquids? Global warming would include oceans' warming, right?