2007-05-17

Ocean Losing Ability to Absorb CO2

U.E. Anglia, British Antarctic Survey, Planck Institute
Lead author: Corinne Le Quere
Where published: Science

...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

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