Posted on 02/07/2023 6:36:07 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The ocean is one of the planet’s great carbon sinks, absorbing nearly a third of the atmosphere’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Swimming in its depths are the great whales, a population whose sheer physical mass allows them to exert an outsized influence on the ecosystem around them. While researchers have long suspected that whales are key players in the ocean’s carbon cycle, quantifying exactly how these animals alter the seas — and what we lost with their decimation a century ago — has proved difficult.
Now a group of scientists has taken that challenge on. A team of ecologists, biologists and oceanographers recently published one of the most comprehensive efforts yet to understand just how much carbon the great whales absorb from the ocean, and the value that presents in the fight against climate change.
In their most direct impact, whale bodies hold an enormous amount of carbon that would otherwise be in the ocean or atmosphere.
In addition, whales indirectly affect the ocean carbon cycle through a less majestic but critically important byproduct: their poop.
Whale poo is rich in fertilizing elements such as nitrogen, phosphorous and iron that are critical for phytoplankton growth. These nutrients are present in relatively small amounts in ocean surface waters.
Whales alone “are not going to solve climate change, but thinking about whales as playing a role in the carbon cycle can help motivate conservation,” said Andrew Pershing, a co-author of the study and director of climate science at the nonprofit Climate Central. “There are a lot of win-wins there, and I think that’s very true of a lot of natural climate solutions.”
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Don’t tell me....tell the Chinese and Japanese
lol
Plus the whales can communicate with the aliens when they come to visit...
They seem to love those windmills on the east coast. They are dying to visit the NJ beaches.
So the Greenies say at the very same moment their cherished wind power is killing the whales.
Such utter foolishness.
Man’s greatest power is his power to deny Reality.
I say we hunt down the biggest whale we can find and see if we can get it to fit up Joe Biden’s rear end..!
The only “climate change” in need of fighting is the LIE that man is capable of influencing it.
Yes, these folks really believe what they publish.
‘Nuff said.
Journalism, when one fails third grade science class and realizes that STEM is for those with brains.
Whale shite good
Cow shite bad
Okay... got it. Climate fanatics are weird.
“Why helping whales to flourish can help fight climate change”
You CAN’T fight climate change!
It’s called “weather”! It happens every day! And puny hu-mans have NOTHING to do with it!
Ever smell a whale fart? It’s an experience not easily forgot ;-)
I wonder what Princess Corrine’s regular job was before she became a whale “expert”.
Every time a democrat talks about green energy scream whale killer.
So it’s OK for whales to fart, but not for cattle and chickens and such?
True. We need democRATS, socialists, and Communists working together to do that. /s
Do you think this “scientific study” will have a predetermined goal or bias, given the folks who will look for the evidence?
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