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Sliver of cool surface water helps the ocean absorb more carbon, study shows phys.org/news/2024-10-sliver-cool-surface-ocean-absorb.html

425 sats \ 2 comments \ @IamSINGLE 27 Oct science

So, We need to protect Ocean Surface now? ;)

Carried out in the Atlantic, the findings suggest this ocean absorbs about 7% more CO2 each year than previously thought. It might sound small, but when applied across all oceans, this additional carbon absorption is equivalent to one and half times the carbon captured by annual forest growth in the Amazon rainforest.

The global ocean absorbs about a quarter of humanity's carbon emissions, slowing climate change while also harming the ocean, and the new findings help improve our understanding of these processes.

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73 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln 27 Oct

It's like weather forecasts: it's extremely hard to model everything accurately. For me, climate science is a qualitative rather than quantitatively accurate field. The tendencies become clearer and clearer, i.e. we humans are causing an increase in global temperature, but by how much, that's still up in the air.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jade001sand 27 Oct outlawed

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