is it to late?

Question

the ocean collects 50% of all carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. a small overbalance of carbon in the ocean can support massive growths of algae, and thus supporting massive bursts of decomposer's, witch in turn depleted the ocean of nutrients and destroy the ocean ecosystem.

chew on that for a while.

source: A.P. high school biology class

this isn't about global warming.

again, THIS HAS NO DIRECT CONNECTION TO GLOBAL WARMING. I WILL NOT CHOSE ANY ANSWER THAT CONCERNS GLOBAL WARMING AS A BEST ANSWER!!!!

no best answer yet...

Answer 1

You're mostly right, but the key words are "small" and "can". If you want to extend the idea of a bloom to a global scale, then that "small overbalance" turns out to be humongous in practical terms. These blooms and resultant dead zones happen all the time, although because of the massive nature of the ocean and its ability to buffer small imbalances, you're more likely to see this happen in a lake or pond.

But tying this back to global warming, one carbon sequestering scheme - called off less than a month ago - was to seed the ocean with 5000 tons of iron, encouraging phytoplankton growth. I'm glad they called it off...

Keep on finding things to chew on...

Answer 2

Global warming has finally been explained: the Earth is getting hotter because the Sun is burning more brightly than at any time during the past 1,000 years, according to new research.

A study by Swiss and German scientists suggests that increasing radiation from the sun is responsible for recent global climate changes.

"The Sun is in a changed state. It is brighter than it was a few hundred years ago and this brightening started relatively recently - in the last 100 to 150 years."

Dr Solanki said that the brighter Sun and higher levels of "greenhouse gases", such as carbon dioxide, both contributed to the change in the Earth's temperature but it was impossible to say which had the greater impact.

chew on that one.....i know which one i belive x

Answer 3

Apparently you want to eliminate the production of carbon dioxide so that we do not produce an overbalance in the ocean.

That would require that we ban the burning of fossil fuels worldwide.

We do not have the political will or military ability to enforce such a ban.

Let's do a thought experiment to see what such a ban would mean in the United States.

We would need to ban all forms of motorized transportation. that is all automobiles, all buses all trucks, trains, airplanes, and all shipping.

Next we would need to ban all manufacturing, steelmaking and cement making.

Next we would need to ban the cooking of all food, the heating and cooling of all homes and the heating of water.

Try to imagine how long you could stand to bathe in cold water.

I doubt that you would be willing to do that for very long.

The conclusion that you will draw is that we cannot ban the burning of fossi fuels.

That means the increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is inevitable.

The belief that we can stop the production of carbon dioxide is nothing more than a fantasy.

It is an unattainable goal

It is not going to happen.

We might as well get used to that right now.

Instead of pursuing fantasies and unattainable goals,

Instead what we must do is plan how we will ameliorate the consequences of an increase in carbon dioxide concentration of our atmosphere.

The increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is inevitable, that is a fact that we must accept, and learn to deal with it.

Answer 4

firstly, decomposers provide nutrients to the ecosystem.
secondly, you cant have a massive growth of algae in the ocean without having massive amounts oxygen released into the atmosphere diluting the carbon dioxide ratio.

i have no doubt that this is what high school students are taught, but it should have been in political science class and not your biology class. this kind of thinking is politics not science.

it may in fact be too late for the american education system, but seek a non government funded school for your higher education and you might become part of the solution.

Answer 5

Dana, if you look on most all of the graphs showing global warming there is a sunspot cycle curve, showing up and down trends. Depending on how you massage the global temperature curve, how much rounding and filling you do, it will show or not show that correlation.

And I am not yet convinced that the LIA was not tied in to the near total cessation of sunspots during that period. Nor that it was happenstance that the LIA warmed up as the sunspot cycle returned to a high level. Do you know of anybody who has linked the global temperature to causing sunspots!

Answer 6

Hi, there!
My turn.
What does your high school parking lot look like. It is clean, or does it look like a pigsty with trash, empty soda bottles and every other kind of debris laying all over??
I'd be glad to read your presentation
provided your fellow students have mastered basic sanitation.
I live near a middle school, and you'd think there were no such things as trash cans in the school, considering the amt of trash that gets thrown on the street when classes leave out.

Answer 7

coco pops, did you even read that article?

"Dr David Viner, the senior research scientist at the University of East Anglia's climatic research unit, said the research showed that the sun did have an effect on global warming.

He added, however, that the study also showed that over the past 20 years the number of sunspots had remained roughly constant, while the Earth's temperature had continued to increase.

This suggested that over the past 20 years, human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation had begun to dominate "the natural factors involved in climate change", he said.

Dr Gareth Jones, a climate researcher at the Met Office, said that Dr Solanki's findings were inconclusive because the study had not incorporated other potential climate change factors.

"The Sun's radiance may well have an impact on climate change but it needs to be looked at in conjunction with other factors such as greenhouse gases, sulphate aerosols and volcano activity," he said."

Nice selective reading, coco pops.

Answer 8

Massive amounts of algae produce massive amounts of food for baleen whales which may over populate the oceans as the ice melt increases the size of the oceans. This said a new food source for mankind surfaces. Then instead of eating red meat from flatulent cows we can eat whale oil and blubber. Why do you use the word witch instead of which? Are you one of my children?

Answer 9

In these matters I suggest following the money trail.
The same people who are profiting out of causing the problems are profiting from the hysteria
I would have to say that it is cyclic
Follow the money trail
the Mega-Rich are pushing both barrows

Answer 10

Mi amigo: please feel free to let your advanced placement biology teacher that they are an imbecile and ought not to fill student's heads with rubbish like this. The logic is flawed, the assumptions are wrong, and the conclusions are ridiculous.