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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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.

7 posted on 03/20/2013 12:21:30 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (An economy is not a zero-sum game, but politics usually is.)
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To: Carry_Okie; SierraWasp; neverdem; Marine_Uncle; Fred Nerks
All of that climate science research money ought to be redirected....thing I would start with the shop that Dr James Hansen heads up.

Sent that Money to UC Irvine.

10 posted on 03/20/2013 12:47:29 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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