To: koan who wrote (235449 ) 4/22/2013 11:04:04 PM From: John Vosilla Read Replies (1) | Respond to Across the board Global Warming vs Climate Change counter. Ice in the arctic melts turns into liquid form and heads south,,gets caught up in the gulf stream cooling the far north Atlantic. Also the suns rays that would have bounced off the ice shields into the atmosphere as energy is now being absorbed into the expanding ocean currents instead. Lots of actions causing reactions and feedback loops. The consequences of everything we do way, way beyond carbon emissions including urban heated islands, chopping down rainforests and clearing farmland for expanding concrete and asphalt cities creating all sorts of micro climates that did not exist 50-100 years ago plus impacting the natural absorbtion of carbon dioxide emissions. Earth's oceans, forests and other ecosystems continue to soak up about half the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere by human activities, even as those emissions have increased, "The uptake of carbon dioxide by the oceans and by ecosystems is expected to slow down gradually," Tans said. Oceans, for example, are already becoming more acidic as they absorb about a quarter of the carbon dioxide pumped into the air by human activities. "As the oceans acidify, we know it becomes harder to stuff even more CO2 into the oceans," Tans said. "We just don't see a letup, globally, yet. phys.org Expanding the capacity of natural areas for capturing and storing carbon is one of the keys to curbing climate change, and would be a relatively low-cost solution that would also improve the quality of life of millions of farmers, the United Nations said Friday. http://www.banderasnews.com/0906/eden-carbonabsorption.htm
