Posted on 10/26/2015 9:35:32 AM PDT by smokingfrog
Scientists from the UK’s National Oceanography Center (NOC) have set their sights on unmasking the ocean’s ‘twilight zone’ – the area between 100 and 1000 meters deep where a small amount of the sun’s light can still penetrate.
This area has proved particularly troublesome for researchers to study, as scientific instruments are typically designed to either sink to the ocean floor or float on the surface. But this elusive region is teeming with ocean life that plays a key role in keeping atmospheric carbon-dioxide (CO2) levels 30 percent lower than it otherwise would be, according to the scientists from NOC.
“Just like the plants in your garden, phytoplankton – the plants in the ocean – absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The difference is when these guys sink they can go down into the deep ocean. And then the deep ocean of course isn’t in contact with the air anymore and so it’s captured and it’s stored down there for long periods of time,” ocean biochemist Dr. Stephanie Henson told Reuters, adding that understanding what processes are involved in carbon transport in the ocean could lead to better predictions of global environmental change
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Not worth spit unfortunately, wonky article about measuring carbon capture by Plankton and how it sinks to the bottom...
$$ for this??
Then they want to study its ability to “store” that evil carbon so they can include the “data” in the new revised calculations about Climate Change...
Business as usual in the CC Gambit, more “scientists” telling us all how stoopid we are compared to them...
Buzz off Hot Dogs!
sooooooooo
its NOT settled science
wow what a surprise
What if there was a simple and cheap way to capture all that “excess carbon”.
Should we do it???
No. CO2 is plant food. Too low, they die, then we die.
BTW, CO2 levels should be much higher than they are now to have a healthier biosphere (5 times would be good). The people who are pushing for lower CO2 levels are the same ones who think to world would be better if 90% of us were dead ( not them, of course, us).
Imagine that. Our planet is a complex place and not everything that happens revolves around the actions of man. Pretty pathetic that this concept isn’t a given in modern science.
IOW, their study is nothing but poo.
[[Plankton poo clue could aid climate predictions]]
Reading tea leaves ism ore accurate
Are you a scientist?
If not, how can you poo poo their study?
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Well, we have had 18+ years of POO regarding predictions, so what the hay!
1: Man-made CO2 emissions throughout human history amounts to less than 0.00022 percent of the total CO2 from the earth's mantle.
2:Warming happens 800 years BEFORE CO2rises (This alone refutes the LIE that CO2 causes climate change)
3: Despite a huge surge in CO2 in the 30's and 40's, temperatures actually dropped for 4 decades afterwards (again proving CO2does not cause warming)
4: The atmosphere contains just 0.0036% CO2 produced by man (FAR too little CO2 to do anything- it's simply impossible for such a small amount to affect global climates)
5: The atmosphere contains just 0.04% CO2 produced by nature and man combined (again, an amount that is FAR too small to cause any change in global climates)
6: Most of the tiny amount of heat captured by atmospheric CO2 gets radiated out to space, not back to earth
7: What little heat actually gets back radiated to earth quickly reaches equilibrium because there is so little of it compared to earth's air (which is now cooler and overwhelms the tiny amount of warmer air that was back radiated- Think about pouring a cup of 80 Degree water into an Olympic sized pool of 70 Degree water- The warmer water does nothing to affect the overall pool's temperature because there simply is not enough warmer water to change the pool's temps)
8: Ice-core data clearly show that temperatures change centuries before concentrations of atmospheric CO2 change
9: There has been no warming since 1998 DESPITE the fact that CO2 has increased during these two decades (again refuting the idea that "CO2 causes warming")
10: Science shows that it is changing temperatures that raise or lower CO2 levels- NOT the other way around. CO2 does not cause climate change- period.
11: Scientists claim global Wagnerian will result in greater storms, earthquakes and natural disasters, however, over the last century, this has proven untrue
12: The world “warmed” by 0.07 +/- 0.07 degrees C from 1999 to 2008- It did not warm by the .22 that climate scientists claimed that it would
13: It is a lie that CO2 is 'the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere". Greenhouse gases comprise 3% of the atmosphere- CO2 comprises just 0.04% 14: Today’s CO2 concentration of around 385 ppm is very low. PPM's have been more than 10 times higher in the past
15: The slight increase in temperatures since 1900 is well within the normal range for natural cyclical warming trends
16: While the arctic is currently warming, this is fully inline with natural cyclical warming trends, The antarctic is currently getting colder, which refutes the claim of "global warming"
17: It is a LIE that there is a 'scientific Consensus" that believes that man is causing climate change.
18: It is a LIE to claim that 98% of scientists believe that man is causing climate change. There are over 6000 scientists and professionals who claim man is NOT causing climate change, and only a handful of scientists and professionals who claim man is to blame, and these folks are almost entirely subsidized by the world's governments
19: The science is Not settled! Scientists do not even know all the mechanics behind global warming and cooling trends- But to hear Al Gore speak, one would think that scientists fully understand what changes climates- they do Not!
20: ClimateGate was a blatant attempt to conceal evidence that did not fit the alarmist rallying cries of the left that man is causing climate change. It was a deceitful shameful attempt to sway public opinion using lies created by hiding evidence
21: Climate has always changed, and it always will. Claiming that prior to the industrial revolution the Earth had a “stable” climate is a LIE.
22: Temperature Measurements made via weather balloons and satellites since the late 1950s show that there has been no atmospheric warming.
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