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Ocean plankton sponge up nearly twice the carbon currently assumed

2013-03-17 21:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Models of carbon dioxide in the world's oceans need to be revised, according to new work by UC Irvine and other scientists published online Sunday in Nature Geoscience. Trillions of plankton near the surface of warm waters are far more carbon-rich than has long been thought, they found. Global marine temperature fluctuations could mean that tiny Prochlorococcus and other microbes digest double the carbon previously calculated. Carbon dioxide is the leading driver of disruptive climate change. In...

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