SEM-03-2008
The trouble with carbon
| Author(s) | Maria hood |
|---|---|
| Summary | The ocean absorbs more than 30% of the CO2 emitted to the atmosphere every year, greatly reducing the negative impact of greenhouse gases on climate (good news). This extra CO2 is making the oceans more acidic, which may have serious impacts on marine ecosystems (bad news). Some scientists think that we may be able to store large amounts of CO2 in the deep ocean in order to remove it from the atmosphere and to protect the surface ocean from acidification (trust me…while this might sound good, it’s bad). Will the ocean keep taking up CO2 from the atmosphere, even if the temperatures increase and ocean circulation changes? What will happen (and when) to marine organisms if the oceans become more acidic? Are options to “engineer” the ocean to artificially remove more CO2 from the atmosphere safe? Are they legal? Are they serious?! What is IOC doing about all this ? |
| Doc Type | Presentation |
| Status | Published on 25 Apr 2008 |
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Created at 11:28 on 25 Apr 2008
by Nuria Fernandez
Updated at 11:30 on 25 Apr 2008
by Nuria Fernandez