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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: neolib who wrote (20555)	2/20/2008 3:17:49 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

but rest assured if there has been a significant change in plankton affecting CO2 uptake, somebody will publish some good data on it. There is PLENTY of data on diminishing phytoplankton. What is missing is the correlation with increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere by the GW community. And it's compounded by the fact that oceanographers and geochemists are not being given sufficient "air time" in the GW debate to state their case that the evidence shows the oceans are experiencing a diminished ability to "sponge" up excess CO2 because phytoplankton blooms are decreasing. fisherycrisis.com seakeepers.org gsfc.nasa.gov The largest phytoplankton decline was in the North Pacific where concentrations have dropped by 30 percent since the 1980s. This image shows a close-up of the north Pacific. While there is some red in this image representing a slight increase in phytoplankton, it is not enough to make up for large decreases in the blue areas. The data was collected in the summers (July-September) from 1979-2000. That's all I ask.. that GW atmospheric scientists put their heads together with oceanographers to take a wholistic look at the data. And it's the responsibility of the MSM to give this story the exposure it deserves. Without it, only half the GW equation is being factored in. Hawk