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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (51009)5/9/2014 4:51:32 PM
From: Land Shark  Read Replies (1) of 86355
 
What caused the decline in phyto? Tell me which models/study document what significance this has with CO2 sequestration (other than your own self-serving speculation)? They don't sequester carbon permanently, as they are part of a carbon cycle. They die off, sink to the benthic regions of the ocean, where they are consumed by bacteria and released as CO2 (which eventually makes it back into the atmosphere). Also there's far more CO2 as alkalinity in seawater itself. Phyto only lives in the top layer of seawater. Increasing phyto wouldn't have a big effect on sequestration.
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