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Invisible Scum on Sea Cuts CO2 Exchange With Air 'By Up To 50%' (theguardian.com)
An invisible layer of scum on the sea surface can reduce carbon dioxide exchange between the atmosphere and the oceans by up to 50%, scientists have discovered. From a report: Researchers from Heriot-Watt, Newcastle and Exeter universities say the findings, published in the journal Nature Geoscience on Monday, have major implications for predicting our future climate. The world's oceans absorb around a quarter of all man-made carbon dioxide emissions, making them the largest long-term sink of carbon on Earth. Greater sea turbulence increases gas exchange between the atmosphere and oceans and until now it was difficult to calculate the effect of "biological surfactants." Teams from the Natural Environment Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust and the European Space Agency developed a system that compares "the surfactant effect" between different seawaters in real time. They found surfactants can reduce carbon dioxide exchange by up to 50%.
Yea science!
Climate cycles are controlled by the Sun and we're at the beginning of a cooling cycle. All the farting in the world is not going to change that.
Sorry to respond to myself .....
I have done extensive - extensive - research on Fox News and listen to every political talk radio show host. They all know better than ANY Climate so-called "scientist". We all know that Sean Hannity knows more than ANYBODY!
Why just the other day it RAINED where I live! It wouldn't have RAINED in Spring if Global Warming were true! Global Warming says that I'd be living in a dessert now! With chocolate and whipped cream!
I'm done with you Liberal Snowflakes who get your "facts" out of your ass! I have to do research on this "Stormy Daniels" person that all the Liberal Lamestream media is harping about. And run out and get another box of tissues because of my allergies.
This isn't a problem. The scum is biological. Further it is slowing the rate of change by 50%. The oceans and the atmosphere will still reach the same equilibrium given time. Also we don't want more CO2 in the oceans. It causes acidification and messes with all kinds of ocean life. You could debate where it does more harm, atmosphere or ocean, but ideally we don't want more in either place.
There can be no further climate research of any sort. We already knew everything many years ago. Thatâ(TM)s whatâ(TM)s science is settled means. We know everything. Nothing left to discover. Fake news. Move along. Nothing to see here.
Deep water stores more CO2 due to its higher pressure, but natural events can cause overturn. I'm not sure any climate models account for that. A major storm, earthquake or landslide could break up the layer while bringing the high concentrations of CO2 (and other gases) to the surface to effervesce. This could explains some of the unexplained coastal die offs. The events at Lake Nyos killed hundreds of people.
As the world continues to heat and the subocean deposits of methane start flowing,
Scientific consensus is that will not happen.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
If you saw the senate hearings on climate change
Senate hearings are a stage, not science.
The Dems did not like to listen to this science and brought their own science with them.
Do you understand that both Dems and Reps only chose scientists who would say things they already like? They would be fools to do otherwise, because that would make them look bad on a stage.
Because I don't post left all my comments get modded down, bye bye Karma.
It's not because you don't post left, it's because you post clearly on the right. That is, you mold your opinion largely to match the party.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
That is more Satire with hyperbole then a Straw Man argument.
Sadly enough the degree of the hyperbole is much less in today then it really should be.
Politically I would much rather see debate on how to deal with climate change and at what degrees from our leaders and the media vs them just denying it all together.
If climate change is some grand conspiracy, I really don't get the final outcome it is meant to achieve. General Air Quality pollution would be an easier sell to try to "have government take over private industry" as smog, can be seen and smelled.
However denying climate change and trying to discredit the science is a way to ignore the problem, so not to waste time and money to fix the problem.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.