oceans absorb carbon


	oceans absorb carbon

zadoz

7-2-2008 2:55 AM

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nature balances mans polution, but how far can she go ????

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7c89bfe4-0f19-4d18-8c11-51cd0d7b3ad1/C015C586-0E02-4DBC-A25D-456186A188F8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/OceanCarbon/" href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/OceanCarbon/" style="font-size: 11px;">earthobservatory.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/OceanCarbon/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="600" colspan="4"><IMG width="600" height="29" alt="The Ocean's Carbon Balance" class="body" src="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/OceanCarbon/images/ocean_carbon_title.gif" />
<DIV class="author">by Holli Riebeek • design by Robert Simmon  • <SPAN class="date">June 30, 2008</SPAN></DIV></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/OceanCarbon/"><P class="first">The idea seemed simple enough: the more carbon dioxide that people pumped into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, the more the oceans would absorb. The ocean would continue to soak up more and more carbon dioxide until global warming heated the ocean enough to slow down ocean circulation. Water trapped at the surface would become saturated, at which point, the ocean would slow its carbon uptake. To oceanographers of 30 years ago, the question was less, how will human emissions change the ocean carbon cycle, and more, is the ocean carbon cycle changing yet?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/OceanCarbon/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/earthobservatory.nasa.gov/img/A9E2BC27-6A87-4828-9A8D-47722395C4CA" alt="Map of carbon sampling cruise tracks." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/OceanCarbon/"><P class="rt_caption_image">Crew members aboard the <SPAN class="ship">R/V Roger Revelle</SPAN> retrieve a <SPAN class="jargon"><A href="http://www.coexploration.org/bbsr/classroombats/tour/html/ctd.html">CTD rosette</A></SPAN> from the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean. As the device is lowered into the ocean, electronic instruments measure salinity, temperature, and depth. Each of the white bottles collects seawater at different depths for detailed analysis. (Photograph ©2008 <A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dryas/">Brett longworth.</A>)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/OceanCarbon/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/earthobservatory.nasa.gov/img/7DF754BE-9F32-410F-8811-92D6802B949F" alt="Graph of carbon dioxide concentration in water versus temperature at 3 different atmospheric concentrations." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/OceanCarbon/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/earthobservatory.nasa.gov/img/0504C026-B697-4189-9912-ACEC40A6D7C2" alt="Diagram of carbon dioxide exchange in the ocean's mixed layer." /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C015C586-0E02-4DBC-A25D-456186A188F8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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