Oceans are 'soaking up less CO2'

[muriel_volestrangler]

The amount of carbon dioxide being absorbed by the world's oceans has reduced, scientists have said.

University of East Anglia researchers gauged CO2 absorption through more than 90,000 measurements from merchant ships equipped with automatic instruments.

Results of their 10-year study in the North Atlantic show CO2 uptake halved between the mid-90s and 2000 to 2005.
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BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin said: "The researchers don't know if the change is due to climate change or to natural variations.

"But they say it is a tremendous surprise and very worrying because there were grounds for believing that in time the ocean might become 'saturated' with our emissions - unable to soak up any more."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7053903.stm

[Systematic Chaos]

1. Why do they even fucking bother anymore?

BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin said: "The researchers don't know if the change is due to climate change or to natural variations."

I'm sure those researchers are up to their fucking eyeballs in uncertainty. And I have some swampland in Florida to sell them and I guarantee it will never be under more than 300 feet of water.

[Deja Q]

2. Ocean plant life dying? Higher fish population? Both? Something else?

Climate change at some point, no doubt...