What would happen if CO2 was pumped into the ocean instead of the atmosphere ?

Question

Suppose instead of smoke stacks, power plants could put CO2 into water ?

Answer 1

Then it is a gas, and it rises to the top in 5 minutes.
It would look cool, all that bubbling like the world's biggest glass of champagne.... but it would rise to the top.

And then go into the atmosphere. Along with the CO, NO, SO2 and other polluting gasses. CO2 isn't the only bad one.
A few fish might die and end up on your dinner table?

Wouldn't it be easier to think of ways to REDUCE the CO2 ?

Answer 2

Not really a good idea. Most smoke stacks give off stuff much worse than CO2. By releasing the emissions into the air the pollutants are dissipated over a much greater area. Also, your plan would require all the beaches to be cluttered with factories.
Lets assume that only CO2 comes out of the smoke stacks. Ok, the CO2 will dissolve, raising the acidity of the oceans, (albeit to a small extent), and the extra CO2 in the water will lead to algae blooms, which might increase the food supply for various types of fish.

Answer 3

Simple really - we'd stuff the ocean rather than (or as well as) the atmosphere.

We have very little understanding of the way either works, so it would be cutting our nose of to spite our face....

Think of the fact that there are lots of very long-term processes (such as the global currents) at work in the ocean just as there are in the atmosphere. The Gulf Stream is about the best known of these. They are very much reliant on a status quo and if we were to alter this it would be to our peril.

To give you an example which was illustrated in "An Inconvenient Truth", 11 000 years ago the last Ice Age ended the covering of Ice over much of North America. This resulted in a huge freshwater lake - the Great Lakes of the northern US are what remains. This was prevented from escaping into the sea for some time by an ice dam, but when this broke most of the lake flowed into the Atlantic Ocean. Within 10 years, the entire global current which controls the climate of Europe and the US was stopped, which led to Europe being covered in ice. I'm pretty sure we don't want that to happen again, eh? Although, if we keep going at the rate we ARE going, that may be just what happens!

Love and Light,


Jarrah

Answer 4

the genuine question is the place the surplus warmth trapped by utilising an ever thickening blanket of greenhouse gases is going. The atmospheric temperatures have risen a techniques under the CO2 index might point out...and this confuses numerous people. the fast answer is in the physics. warmth strikes from heat to relax. It strikes from a miles less dense medium to a extra dense medium. The 'extra dense medium' is ice first and sea water 2d. vast quantities of ice at the instant are melting as this medium absorbs the atmospheric warmth. Ocean temperatures are very slowly becoming besides. right there you have your reason and consequence. Trapped warmth is the 'reason', melting ice and warming sea water is the 'consequence'. placed you heat beer cans on your ice chest. The beer cools because of the fact the ice absorbs the warmth capability and melts. the reason of the melting ice is the warmth beer and the leakage of warmth air into the field. Any 'scientist' who 'believes' in the opposite isn't possibly a 'scientist'.

Answer 5

Some of it would dissolve into the water and most of it would bubble to the surface and get into the atmosphere anyhow like when you open a can of pop.

I'd be more worried about the toxic chemicals than CO2. CO2 is not toxic, if fact it is essential to plants.

If you're worried about CO2 please go to www.google.com, click on Video and search for "The Great Global Warming Swindle". It's worth it to see what real scientists are saying about global warming and CO2.

Answer 6

In pure form at a sufficient depth it becomes liquid and heavy and stable. It is believed that it can be stored in the deepest parts of the ocean.

Answer 7

well it would become "heavy water" because of the increase in oxygen, and if it were not molecularly bonded it would merely rise to the suface again. Like the air you breahe out while under water.

Answer 8

It would bubble it's way to the top and enter the atmosphere.
You are confused or have a liberal teacher, which is worse than merely being confused.