[permaculture-oceania] Fwd: Oceans Carbon Sink or Source

[Robyn Williamson]

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> From: press-release at i-sis.org.uk
> Date: Tue Jul 25, 2006  10:19:15 pm Australia/Sydney
> To: robinet at aapt.net.au
> Subject: Oceans Carbon Sink or Source
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> ISIS Press Release 25/07/06
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> Oceans Carbon Sink or Source
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> Do oceans remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or
> contribute to it? The answer is crucial for climate change.
> Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
>
> NASA’s ocean watch
>
> NASA’s SeaWiFS project (Sea-viewing Wide Field-of View
> Sensor)(SeaWiFS) has been watching the oceans twenty-four
> hours a day every day since September 1997 [1]. It provides
> quantitative data on the biological state of the global
> oceans through remote colour sensing. The colour in most of
> the world’s oceans varies with the concentration of
> chlorophyll and other plant pigments contained in the
> phytoplankton, the greater the concentration of plant
> pigments, the greener the water. As an orbiting sensor can
> view every square kilometre of cloud-free ocean every 48
> hours, satellite-acquired ocean colour data are valuable for
> determining the abundance of ocean life and to assess the
> ocean’s role in climate change.
>
> One big question the SeaWiFS project wants to answer is
> whether the oceans are a carbon source that adds carbon
> dioxide to the atmosphere, or a carbon sink that removes it
> from the atmosphere, which is crucial to monitoring climate
> change and taking appropriate action
>
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> Read the rest of this article here
> http://www.i-sis.org.uk/OceanCarbonSink.php
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> This is the third in an eight part ISIS series on the oceans.
> The rest will be released over the next two weeks
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> Titles of circulated articles include:
> Oceans In Distress
> http://www.i-sis.org.uk/OceansInDistress.php
> Oceans and Global Warming
> http://www.i-sis.org.uk/OceansGlobalWarming.php
>
>
> Titles of upcoming articles include:
> Acid Oceans
> Abrupt Plankton Shifts
> Plankton and Global Warming; Snuffing Out the Green Fuse
> The Blue Revolution; Air Conditioning and Energy From Deep Water
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>
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> Or read other articles in the global warming
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> http://www.i-sis.org.uk/climateglobalwarming.php
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