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Hungry Crustaceans Eat Climate Change Experiment
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| March 26, 2009
Posted on 03/26/2009 2:56:24 PM PDT by Lorianne
Earlier this month, an expedition fertilized 300 square kilometers of the Atlantic Ocean with six metric tons of dissolved iron. This triggered a bloom of phytoplankton, which doubled their biomass within two weeks by taking in carbon dioxide from the seawater. The dead phytoplankton were then expected to sink to the ocean bed, dragging carbon along with them. Instead they experiment turned into an example of how the food chain works as the bloom was eaten by a swarm of hungry copepods. The huge swarm of copepods were in turn eaten by larger crustaceans called amphipods, which are often eaten by squid and whales. "I think we are seeing the last gasps of ocean iron fertilization as a carbon storage strategy," says Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution at Stanford University. While the experiment failed to show ocean fertilization as a viable carbon storage strategy, it has pushed the old "My dog ate my homework" excuse to an unprecedented level.
TOPICS: Science
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posted on
03/26/2009 2:56:24 PM PDT
by
Lorianne
To: Lorianne
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posted on
03/26/2009 2:57:33 PM PDT
by
SolidWood
(Palin: "We do not want to becomes slaves of Washington.")
To: Lorianne
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posted on
03/26/2009 2:58:14 PM PDT
by
valkyry1
To: Lorianne
Don’t you love these “nature experts” who haven’t the slightest idea what nature is really all about?
To: Lorianne
Unless the beasties all the way up the food chain exhale all the CO_2 that the phytoplankton converted into sugar, there would still be a net removal of CO_2 from the atmosphere. (Not that it really matters, since excess CO_2 is a trailing indicator of global temperature, as we now see clearly these last ten years.)
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posted on
03/26/2009 3:00:11 PM PDT
by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
To: SolidWood
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posted on
03/26/2009 3:01:16 PM PDT
by
BossLady
("WE are the origin of all coming evil" ~~ Carl Jung~~)
To: Lorianne
That will teach these Algore acolytes to mess with mother nature. The crustaceans outsmarted these libtards
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posted on
03/26/2009 3:02:10 PM PDT
by
Merlinator
(January 20. 2009, A National Day of Mourning)
To: Lorianne
LOL! Such is life!
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posted on
03/26/2009 3:02:25 PM PDT
by
Islander7
(If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
To: Lorianne
Which is then eaten by humans.
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posted on
03/26/2009 3:05:11 PM PDT
by
bgill
To: Lorianne
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posted on
03/26/2009 3:06:50 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
To: Lorianne
How mant Yugos does it take to make a whale?
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posted on
03/26/2009 3:07:25 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
To: Lorianne
The “scientists” don’t really know very much.
To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
They probably figured that the critters would be so grateful for their service to mother Gaia.
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posted on
03/26/2009 3:08:19 PM PDT
by
Soothesayer
(The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
To: SolidWood
Go crustaceans!
Cru sta ceans! Cru sta ceans!
Raw! Raw! Raw!
Cru sta ceans! Cru sta ceans!
Raw! Raw! Raw!
Exoskeleton, Exoskeleton!
RRAAAAAAWWWWWW! Raw!
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posted on
03/26/2009 3:08:42 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Eaker
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posted on
03/26/2009 3:09:39 PM PDT
by
Eaker
(The Two Loudest Sounds in the World.....Bang When it should have been Click and the Reverse.)
To: Lorianne
Obama’s so-called experts to the tune of billions
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posted on
03/26/2009 3:21:06 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Lorianne
Another example of anthropological climate change.
To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
The “scientists” don’t really know very much.
Until they can find any viable life inside a pregnant woman's womb I would have to agree with you.
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posted on
03/26/2009 3:24:57 PM PDT
by
OneVike
(Just a Christian waiting to go home)
To: Lorianne
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posted on
03/26/2009 3:25:48 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Lorianne
What fun they were having under the sea!
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posted on
03/26/2009 3:26:21 PM PDT
by
Marie2
(I don't know what that bird told you, but I'M Brian Fellows)
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