Posted on 06/15/2005 6:44:11 PM PDT by wagglebee
Washington, Jun 13 (Prensa Latina) A California University study suggests that oceans will solve global warming in the long term, Science magazine published in its latest issue.
Experts say the carbon dioxide (CO2) that comes from fossil fuels will be absorbed by oceans and that will eradicate the problem of global warming.
However, the problem with that long process is that it will take a thousand centuries to be completed, as happened with the last warming this planet went through 55 million years ago.
The scientific hypothesis is based on the analysis of marine sediments deposited during the global warming called Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM).
The sediments reveal an abrupt change in the chemical composition of the sea, which started to develop at the beginning of the PETM, a period followed by a long and slow recovery.
US university Earth Science teacher James Zachos explained that when investigating the ocean´s sedimentary layers, he was able to observe the effects of a quick acidification during the PETM.
According to the teacher, the CO2 dissolved in the water creates that acidification to expand to the ocean´s bottom.
The latest research confirms that nearly half the CO2 produced by man (some 1.2 billion carbon tons) went to the oceans in the last two centuries.
warm oceans teem with plankton. That should soak up a lot of CO2.
Well there's the answer. Just find out what kind of cars they were driving then and go with that model. Problem solved!
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Why can't we stop pumping CO2 into the air? The last time we messed up the planet 55 million years ago, it took a thousand centuries to fix it. I am so sick and tired of our wasteful SUV's and air conditioning. Our own stupidity will be our downfall.
warm oceans teem with plankton. That should soak up a lot of CO2.
yes & no. while there would be tons of plankton to absorb CO2, there would also be plenty of algae as the temperatures rise in the seas, which would choke the free oxygen out of the sea which would suffocate many a school of fish, possibly leading to 'mass extinction' of any of the large schooled fishes.
But that would require rapid warming of the seas over a short ammount of time, and that doesn't seem likely yet.
I don't think they'll ever realize what they just printed.
Every time it rains, it rains H2CO3 -- carbonic acid.
But those SUVs of 55M years ago were not as fuel efficient as our current models.
Man's activities are just a fart in a whirlwind in comparison to natural forces.
Algae are plankton.
But aside from that, do you have any support for your claim that surplus algae "would choke the free oxygen out of the sea which would suffocate many a school of fish, possibly leading to 'mass extinction' of any of the large schooled fishes."
We'll wait with baited breath.....
Yeah, but I blame the engieer who invented the wheel for all that pollution 55M years ago.
I don't understand how green algae which survive from photosynthesis would choke out all the oxygen.
I'm pretty sure, consensus has it, that it was Bush's fault.
So this means I'm living my wasteful capitalistic lifestyle for naught? /sarc
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