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VMA131Marine

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13. These studies look at two different things

Fri Dec 4, 2015, 03:08 PM

Dec 2015

The first looks at the effects of increasing temperature on the ability of phytoplankton to remove CO2 and generate oxygen through photosynthesis. The second says that the numbers of certain phytoplankton increase with increasing CO2 levels. It's certainly possible for both things to be true and that the number of phytoplankton will increase right up to the point where the surface temperature increase is 6 degrees and then, if the study is correct, abruptly stop. As the article points out, this would be very bad because there would be no warning of the impending disaster. In fact, the rise in phytoplankton numbers would make it appear that things were improving when the opposite was, in fact, true.

On the bright side, I suspect we'll figure out how to genetically modify phytoplankton to withstand the higher temperatures before there's a problem.

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Well there you have it flamingdem Dec 2015 #1

this is the way the world ends WhiteTara Dec 2015 #5

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They appear to be already working on it. nt villager Dec 2015 #14

Is that before we kill each other? Us rural people might have a slight advantage here LiberalArkie Dec 2015 #3

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The human race is headlong and hell bent to extinguish itself MrScorpio Dec 2015 #4

It may not be swift, but to be sure, the Earth will survive. nt WhiteTara Dec 2015 #7

Except for a contradictory report One_Life_To_Give Dec 2015 #8

that's hopeful. nt WhiteTara Dec 2015 #9

That was the first thing I thought of. pintobean Dec 2015 #10

These studies look at two different things VMA131Marine Dec 2015 #13

this would be a really nice planet without the humans olddots Dec 2015 #11

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for next year anyway. nt WhiteTara Dec 2015 #16

That would be a problem for the 99.9-percent of the peasantry. Octafish Dec 2015 #17

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Thanks Octa. "It's pretty clearly a suicide." Meanwhile, Ghost Dog Dec 2015 #21

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