Posted on 01/28/2020 7:40:06 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Contrary to the expectations of many environmental scientists, a new model has predicted a likely boom in tropical phytoplankton abundance as the century progresses.
Phytoplankton anchor the aquatic food web. Most scientists assumed this community of photosynthesizing bacteria and plant-like diatoms would struggle in the tropics as the oceans become increasingly stratified, with heavier cold water situated deep beneath the surface and lighter warm water isolated on top.
"All the climate models have this mechanism built into them, and it has led to these well-established predictions that phytoplankton productivity, biomass and export into the deep ocean will all decline with climate change," lead researcher Adam Martiny, professor of oceanography. "Earth system models are largely based upon laboratory studies of phytoplankton, but of course laboratory studies of plankton are not the real ocean."
To build a more accurate ocean systems model, Martiny and his colleagues sampled phytoplankton communities at thousands of locations all over the globe. Their efforts revealed surprising levels of phyotplankton abundance in tropical waters.
When scientists provided ocean models with their new phytoplankton survey data, the simulations showed increases in ocean temperature are likely to boost phytoplankton abundance.
"In many regions there would be an increase of 10 to 20 percent of plankton biomass, rather than a decline," Martiny said. "Machine learning is not biased by the human mind. We just give the model tons and tons of data, but they can help us challenge existing paradigms."
Scientists described the results of their new model in a new paper published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience.
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Imagine what would happen if we added powered Iron in small amounts to the water. We would get a super bloom!
“Model predicts future phytoplankton boom in tropics”
This thread is worthless without a picture of the model.
YEAH ....BUT “all the climate MODELS predicted decline!!!!!!” Science yea! As Jesse exclaimed to Walter White as they were embarking on a process to make Ricin .
How did the WORLD ever exist without us ?
Huumm...I was expecting a comment from Christie Brinkley.
Gee. its almost as if the entire planet is a living organism that adjusts itself to adapt and survive
Without “interventions” like govt funded chemtrails to block sunlight
Well, not guilty, anyway.
There's a carpet cleaning company here that claims to use empowered water.
Does this mean the phytoplankton is nature’s way of replenishing the atmospheric oxygen and reducing the carbon dioxide? So the global warming hysterics can relax about their “CO2 footprint”?
HERE are the models perfecting their phytoplankton model. Next they move on to Global Warming models.
"This Plan Z can't possibly fail!"
Get that girl a happy meal. Looks like she hasn’t eaten in months.
#2. You should see my bathtub...
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