Saturday, May 19, 2007





Ocean may be losing ability to soak CO2

Their four-year study concluded that an increase in winds over the Southern Ocean is preventing it from absorbing more carbon and is causing the sea to release some of the gas that it had stored.

"This is serious. All climate models predict that this kind of 'feedback' will continue and intensify during this century," lead author Corinne Le Quere of the University of East Anglia said in a statement.


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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey, and I just read that the rate of CO2 emissions between 2000 and 2007 is actually triple the best prior estimates indicated would occur.

So much for the Kyoto Protocols...