Oceans absorbing less CO2 may have 1,500 year impact - Reuters

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Oceans absorbing less CO2 may have 1,500 year impact
Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:06pm EDT

By Sylvia Westall

VIENNA (Reuters) - Global oceans are soaking up less carbon
dioxide, a development that could speed up the greenhouse
effect and have an impact for the next 1,500 years, scientists
said on Wednesday.

Research from a five-year project funded by the European Union
showed the North Atlantic, which along with the Antarctic is of
the world's two vital ocean carbon sinks, is absorbing only half
the amount of CO2 that it did in the mid-1990s.

Using recent detailed data, scientists said the amount absorbed
is also fluctuating each year, making it hard to predict how and
whether the trend will continue and if oceans will be able to
perform their vital balancing act in the future.

Oceans soak up around a quarter of annual CO2 emissions, but
should they fail to do so in the future the gas would stay in
the atmosphere and could accelerate the greenhouse effect, a
prospect project director Christoph Heinze called "alarming".

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSL1674158420080416

[Usrename]

1. Uh-oh.

:hide:

[tom_paine]

2. Is it FASTER THAN EXPECTED?

Nobody ever expects the Spanish Inquisition.

[Exodus 3-14]

3. Much Faster

As on another thread, when 2012 comes around and our CO2 levels are not below the safe threshold(dropping constantly as we chew up Bio-Mass and produce more CO2), Earth will be the target of a severe Auto-Immune Response(Extinction Event).

'Space is Alive', and has an Immune System just like Earth does(anyone who doesn't comprehend this will soon find that it is true--- and won't be able to do a thing at that point; cause its coming soon).

We can literally 'Extend Time' by leveling out the 'PH' balance of our Planet to safe CO2 levels; this will require Global Co-operation in the most organized focused way.

*A Kabbalist will tell you that I am right, the Cosmos(of which we are part) are 'Alive', a Living Organsim/Multi-Cellular Construct