This 2009 report, 'The Impacts of the Oceans on Climate Change', identifies a number of vast biological and physical carbon pumps and sinks in the marine environment, dwarfing terrestrial systems, which are reducing climate change by absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere.
The report finds, however, that as the seas warm and change due to climate change and ocean acidification, this capacity to buffer climate change can be reduced, leaving more CO2 in the atmosphere to cause additional climate change.
In some cases, this seems to be underway already.
This 2009 report, 'The Impacts of the Oceans on Climate Change', identifies a number of vast biological and physical carbon pumps and sinks in the marine environment, dwarfing terrestrial systems, which are reducing climate change by absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere.
The report finds, however, that as the seas warm and change due to climate change and ocean acidification, this capacity to buffer climate change can be reduced, leaving more CO2 in the atmosphere to cause additional climate change.
In some cases, this seems to be underway already.
The abstact of Reid et al.,'The Impacts of the Oceans on Climate Change' Advances in Marine Biology, Vol 56. 2009 may be read freely here.
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