Posted on 02/01/2021 9:47:34 AM PST by PROCON
The world's largest animals are unusually good at taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
Seeing a whale stranded on a beach often provokes a strong reaction. It can make people curious – beached whales can do strange things, like explode. It can also be upsetting to witness a creature so magnificent in water reduced to lifeless blubber on land. What rarely registers, however, is the lost opportunity for carbon sequestration.
Whales, particularly baleen and sperm whales, are among the largest creatures on Earth. Their bodies are enormous stores of carbon, and their presence in the ocean shapes the ecosystems around them.
From the depths of the ocean, these creatures are also helping to determine the temperature of the planet – and it's something that we've only recently started to appreciate.
"On land, humans directly influence the carbon stored in terrestrial ecosystems through logging and the burning of forests and grasslands," according to a 2010 scientific paper. "In the open ocean, the carbon cycle is assumed to be free of direct human influences."
But that assumption neglects the surprising impact of whaling.
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Carbon, carbon, carbon, carbon...is that ALL these idiots think about day and night?
Well, I guess they only think about carbon when they have exhausted themselves thinking about how to destroy the family, religion, statues, school names, books, conservatives, free speech, history, white people, freedom and liberty.
If whales didn’t swish their tails there would be no ocean currents. You know, sort of like the butterfly wing flapping story. 😱😂🙌
CO2 is a necessary element to life, it is not a dangerous pollutant.
They cool the earth because they’re hep cats, baby.
Whales going around with sunglasses and berets writing poetry that doesn’t rhyme and smoking grass.
a 5 year old was paid to write this?
Whales, particularly baleen and sperm whales, are among the largest creatures on Earth. Their bodies are enormous stores of carbon, and their presence in the ocean shapes the ecosystems around them.
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Whoever wrote this has zero sense of the scale of the Earth. Unless the number of whales in the ocean is in the billions, their presence or absence has zero effect on the Earth. There are, by the way, about 25,000 Blue Whales on the planet.
It seems they are innumerate hacks.
Whales can be a carbon sink but for only a tiny fraction of fixed carbon dioxide.
If you take a look at diatom blooms they can often be as large as Britain and Ireland combined. That’s much more biomass and fixed carbon dioxide than all the whales in the ocean.
On the other side whales are neat to watch, but they cannot alter the weather.
Beached whales can do strange things, like explode.
As much as we need fact-checking, we even more need content checking.
I guess they didn’t take into account the massive methane gas expulsion when these giants let out a fart, or the carbon dioxide expulsion when they surface and blow all that carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Morons.
we went out of new port beach on Saturday whale watching with about a half dozen other vessels and the sure as hell were spewing crap in the ocean and atmosphere
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A big tree stores more carbon.
The author has a juvenile mind.
Yes whales on the beach explode, after you fill them with dynamite.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=zaFO1xNL-IQ&feature=emb_logo
By the way, fat people are carbon sequestering units also. Dieting should be outlawed. Fat people should get get its reductions, or carbon credits for saving the planet. Fitness freaks need to pay for damaging the planet.
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