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The ocean produces roughly half of Earth’s oxygen — not the rainforest, which uses up most of what it makes...
Space Daily ^ | 22/6/26

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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TOPICS: Humor; Reference; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: climatechange; ocean; oxygen; rainforest

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Goody. Let's chop down some trees, out of appreciation for the prochlorococcus.

Prochiorococcus: In yo' face, rain forest! IN YO FAAAACE!

1 posted on 06/28/2026 5:18:06 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
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Obviously, this can also be said "in reverse".

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.

2 posted on 06/28/2026 5:24:57 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell warned us about Rivers of Blood. Well, I sure hope they're coming. It's the only fix.)
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> 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


3 posted on 06/28/2026 5:28:35 AM PDT by Ex-Con777 ("Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving." ~ David Burg)
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To: ClearCase_guy

CO2 baaaaaad.

CO woooooorse.

H2O glubglubglub, shark chomps, Oweee!, Buuuurp!

O goooooood.


4 posted on 06/28/2026 5:29:19 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("America can be summed up in one word: Asmpfutehehepfpfutehe")
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To: Eleutheria5

Of course that has always been true, but not politically correct for the weather control crowd.


5 posted on 06/28/2026 5:30:21 AM PDT by Eli Kopter (B''H We are given a new day today, with new choices. Choose wisely!)
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We have tons and tons of seaweed hitting the shores of the keys now wondering why?


6 posted on 06/28/2026 5:46:24 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY: UNTIL ITS NOT))
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We have tons and tons of seaweed hitting the shores of the keys now wondering why?


7 posted on 06/28/2026 5:46:24 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY: UNTIL ITS NOT))
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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.

8 posted on 06/28/2026 5:49:00 AM PDT by ealgeone
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Some of it’s used in sushi.


9 posted on 06/28/2026 5:57:17 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("America can be summed up in one word: Asmpfutehehepfpfutehe")
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To: rodguy911

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.


10 posted on 06/28/2026 6:01:54 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("America can be summed up in one word: Asmpfutehehepfpfutehe")
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To: rodguy911

Why. Currents.


11 posted on 06/28/2026 6:04:03 AM PDT by zek157 ( )
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To: Eleutheria5

One more reason why I don’t eat sushi.


12 posted on 06/28/2026 6:06:22 AM PDT by ealgeone
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Seaweed’s actually pretty good, though kelp gives me gas.


13 posted on 06/28/2026 6:07:52 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("America can be summed up in one word: Asmpfutehehepfpfutehe")
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Maybe Bill Gates and Fauci can biologically modify the Prochlorococcus to stop Global Warming or whatever.


14 posted on 06/28/2026 6:44:37 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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I thought this was well know. I knew this years ago.


15 posted on 06/28/2026 6:49:50 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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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.


16 posted on 06/28/2026 7:01:52 AM PDT by chopperk (,)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Why would anyone want to stop global warming? It’s great!


17 posted on 06/28/2026 7:02:44 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("America can be summed up in one word: Asmpfutehehepfpfutehe")
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Why would anyone want to stop global warming? It’s great!


18 posted on 06/28/2026 7:02:45 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("America can be summed up in one word: Asmpfutehehepfpfutehe")
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To: chopperk

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.


19 posted on 06/28/2026 7:06:52 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("America can be summed up in one word: Asmpfutehehepfpfutehe")
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To: yesthatjallen

That which contradicts the narrative must constantly be brought up.


20 posted on 06/28/2026 7:08:10 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("America can be summed up in one word: Asmpfutehehepfpfutehe")
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