[dfwgator]

[PeterPrinciple]

Now if they would just go back to teaching the carbon cycle in schools, and the water cycle, and the..............................

[Carry_Okie]

Models of carbon dioxide in the world’s oceans need to be revised, according to new work by UC Irvine and other scientists published online Sunday in Nature Geoscience. Trillions of plankton near the surface of warm waters are far more carbon-rich than has long been thought, they found. Global marine temperature fluctuations could mean that tiny Prochlorococcus and other microbes digest double the carbon previously calculated.

Now, if they could just measure their respiration, excretion, and decomposition products, we might just be getting somewhere.

[RatRipper]

So we have to burn all that dirty oil and coal to “save the whales” . . . baleen whale feeders need the plankton to survive . . . yammering leftists need to understand that their clever arguments are no match for God’s wisdom, and it shows . . . it says as much in the Bible.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

So they will admit they are full of it on the global warming thing? I bet not.

[Graewoulf]

” - - - The trouble started when someone made an assumption. - - - “

Always test and re-test any and all assumptions.

[rfreedom4u]

I wonder if anyone has an estimate of the amount of oil/gas that ended up in the oceans from WWII? I know it had to be in the millions of gallons as naval vessels carry a lot of fuel oil, aviation fuel etc.

And then I wonder where it all went?

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[DungeonMaster]

I’ve been saying this for a few years. It seems that a degree rise in ocean temp will cause an exponential increase in the amount of plankton which “eat” carbon. That means the CO2 part of the ecosystem is self balancing.

[NormsRevenge]

sooo.. that means we need to harvest more whales and sharks or less? btw, I gave up seafood for the children... better they get a MacBite than an old fart

[BwanaNdege]

The article is concerned with Phytoplankton, which use CO2 in the same manner as terrestrial plants.

However, they have illustrated the article with a photo of a “Hyperia”, which is a Zooplankton which eats Phytoplankton, other Zooplankton and detritus (decomposing plant and animal parts as well as organic fecal matter).

It benefits from the CO2 captured by the phytoplankton, but does nothing directly to reduce atmospheric CO2

[Rocky]

Another inconvenient truth.

What are the Gore-bots going to do?