Global warming: Oceans may be losing its ability to absorb carbon from the atmosphere due to?

Question

rising temperatures that increase the winds over the Southern ocean that surrounds the Antarctic. Oceans are believed to absorb about 1/4 of human-related carbon emmissions linked to global warning. What can we do about it?

Answer 1

Phytoplankton in the ocean, as well as photosynthetic bacteria are what absorbs most of the CO2 emissions from man and nature.
the main reason this is important, is because when their climate is altered, their populations shrink(or grow slowly), thus consuming less CO2.
another important aspect of shrinking populations of photsynthetic bacteria in respect to climate change, is the fact that they produce more oxygen than plants.

Answer 2

Oceans may be losing ability because temperatures have been increasing for thousands of years. The oceans are so big that there is a lag time of about a thousand years. That is why CO2 concentrations lag temperature by about 800 years. Solubility of CO2 does not increase with temperature as with most substances. Calcium carbonate (CaC03)(calcite or limestone) also dissolves less in warmer water so warm water tends to both deposit more carbon in limestone (called oolites as well as corals and other organisms) and also emits more CO2 to the atmosphere. It is a characteristic of the ocean. There is nothing we could do about it. The oceans are going to absorb what they can based on temperature. We shouldn't try to do more than we can. Sometimes the solutions are worse than the problems.

Answer 3

There was the solution suggested by a recently-deceased oceanographer....his colleagues tested it in his honor (in part). The idea was to fertilize the mid-ocean surface water with iron because the algae are growth limited by trace elements in those areas (not just nitrogen or phosphorus). His challenge had been: "Bring me a ship full of iron filings and I'll bring on the next ice age". It turned out....when fertilized with iron, the ocean turned green but before the trapped carbon (in all the algae bodies) could fall 2 miles and start becoming deep ocean sediment it got eaten by zooplankton, who got eaten by fish....the carbon got recycled (in other words) well before any significant fraction became deep sediment stored carbon (the goal of the fertilization experiment). So much for that attempt.....the ocean is otherwise too big and unpredictable, as this experiment showed, to plan on manipulating to solve our problems.

Answer 4

BS


Read: "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming", Christopher C. Horner tears the cover off the Left's manipulation of environmental issues for political purposes -- and lays out incontrovertible evidence of the fact that global warming is just more Chicken-Little hysteria, not actual science.

No, Al, the sky is not falling...

Proof: media hype and deceptive Al Gore slide shows notwithstanding, greenhouse gas concentrations demonstrably do not determine temperatures

The mainstream media's routinely sloppy, inaccurate reporting about evidence of global warming and other environmental matters

More proof: The hole in the ozone layer -- the 1980s manmade environmental crisis -- was caused by the Antarctic atmosphere's being too cold

How environmentalists throughout modern history have instilled fear over one looming "crisis" or another with the aim of increasing government control over things big and small

Why the environmental alarmists do whatever they can to avoid actual debate

The environmentalist movement: not a grassroots phenomenon driven by scruffy idealists but an elite-driven movement that lards the coffers of pressure campaigns with wealth -- commonly inherited, often corporate, and far too-frequently looted from the taxpayer

Recent studies that have shown that the environment is actually flourishing -- and how the greens have turned even these into evidence of our imminent doom

"To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem": the environmentalists' openly anti-human agenda

How real pollution problems can be addressed through the technological improvements that the Left is doing all it can to obstruct

Al Gore's global warming jihad: how it will lead to massively higher costs and direct or indirect energy rationing -- and probably many measures that are even worse

How much of the budget for environmental pressure groups comes directly from taxpayers -- through grants for public "education" and congressional schemes designed to subsidize the greens' lawyers

Green lunacy run amok: how even respectable political figures (and Slick Willie) say that the environmental damage caused by American industry is a greater threat than terrorism

Why, as with other political crusades that fail in the arena of representative democracy, the greens now see the courts and supranational bodies as their best hopes

How environmental policies come with a cost, often to the society as a whole, decreasing wealth, and so harming health -- dangers the average environmentalist ignores

How greens worship primitive lifestyles from afar, while those mired in them would kill to escape them

How, almost without fail, global warming skeptics are charged with being stooges of industry -- a charge that neither addresses the skeptic's criticism or question, nor reflects the fact that most of "industry" now actually supports the alarmists' agenda

Ethanol: sobering evidence that it might not be good for the environment -- and how the damage to soil from single-crop farming is probably more real than global warming

How the risks of climate change policy far outweigh the risks that might realistically be expected as climate continues to change
It's time to stand up to the environmentalist industry and insist: human beings are not the enemy. In breezy, light-hearted and always entertaining fashion, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) gives you the facts you need to do so.

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Answer 5

What happened to the ice age that was talked about when I was young.
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