Posted on 06/28/2026 5:18:06 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
...through photosynthesis by phytoplankton, microscopic marine organisms so abundant that a single teaspoon of seawater can contain as many as a million of them. (continuation of overlong headline)
The invisible forest Phytoplankton are tiny, individually invisible, and almost unimaginably numerous. A single teaspoon of seawater can hold more than a million microscopic organisms, of which phytoplankton are a large part, although the count rises and falls enormously with season, sunlight and the nutrients in the water.
One group stands out. Prochlorococcus, the smallest known photosynthetic organism, is so abundant that, by NOAA’s account, it alone produces up to a fifth of the oxygen in the entire biosphere. That is a larger share than all the world’s tropical rainforests combined.
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Prochiorococcus: In yo' face, rain forest! IN YO FAAAACE!
The ocean produces oxygen.
Where does that oxygen come from?
It comes from CO2.
So the ocean absorbs and breaks down vast amounts of CO2.
> So the ocean absorbs and breaks down vast amounts of CO2.<
And bitterly ironic, it does so at a greater rates when it is warmer.
The environazi computer models don’t include this fact.
EC
CO2 baaaaaad.
CO woooooorse.
H2O glubglubglub, shark chomps, Oweee!, Buuuurp!
O goooooood.
Of course that has always been true, but not politically correct for the weather control crowd.
We have tons and tons of seaweed hitting the shores of the keys now wondering why?
We have tons and tons of seaweed hitting the shores of the keys now wondering why?
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Lunch time!! Isn't that what the enviroweenies want all to eat...save for them of course as they'll get real food.
Some of it’s used in sushi.
Trump’s fault. He colluded with Prince Namor of Atlantis to fix the midterms, outspent George Soros two-to-one. But in exchange, the keys got seaweed.
Why. Currents.
One more reason why I don’t eat sushi.
Seaweed’s actually pretty good, though kelp gives me gas.
Maybe Bill Gates and Fauci can biologically modify the Prochlorococcus to stop Global Warming or whatever.
I thought this was well know. I knew this years ago.
Brits are overlooking one very important issue. They have bare cut most of their forests and other green foliage covered these areas with concrete, blacktop and reflective roofing creating a negative heat release coefficient in our atmosphere. During sunlit days heat buildup in these areas is so high that there is not enough dark night hours to release the daylight heat that was built up. Maybe to offset this disaster would be to replace a cut tree or several cut trees with planting 5 or more seedlings somewhere in the same vicinity with broadleaf or similar trees to dissipate a coefficient amount of absorbed heat during the night hours. There is no other way to dissipate global heat entrapment warming.
Why would anyone want to stop global warming? It’s great!
Why would anyone want to stop global warming? It’s great!
I strongly doubt that the British isles’ paultry urban areas are able to make or break global temperature changes. Planting trees is a good idea, however. Trees give shade, recycle co2, and are very easy on the eyes. The Brits should plant more, so should the Irish, to Scottish, the Cornish and the Welsh. Just because trees are good.
That which contradicts the narrative must constantly be brought up.
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