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To: gcruse
Warmer seawater equals more CO2 in the atmosphere? Evaporation isn't a CO2 transporter, so what's up with that? The amount of gas dissolved in the water descreases with increases in temperature.
5 posted on 01/28/2007 9:32:02 PM PST by mc6809e
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To: mc6809e

Ah, okay. Thanks.


8 posted on 01/28/2007 9:34:12 PM PST by gcruse (http://garycruse.blogspot.com/)
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To: mc6809e
The amount of gas dissolved in the water descreases with increases in temperature.

True.

Maybe he means warmer water gives more marine life, [and increased cold blooded metabolic rates] giving a net increase in CO^2 released to the atmosphere?

OTOH, wouldn't one expect that increase to include marine plant life as well, sucking up a lot of the 'extra' CO^2?

17 posted on 01/28/2007 10:49:47 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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