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Actually, escalating death of plankton and growth of anoxic zones are more important: it will cause systemic collapse of marine food chain. Storm damage can be
by FrozenVoid 10y ago
Actually, escalating death of plankton and growth of anoxic zones are more important: it will cause systemic collapse of marine food chain. Storm damage can be mitigated(e.g. netherlands)
http://www.sciencealert.com/ocean-oxygen-levels-are-dropping-and-it-s-all-down-to-us http://www.sciencealert.com/ocean-oxygen-levels-are-dropping...
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-black-sea-short-term-oxygen-loss.html https://phys.org/news/2017-02-black-sea-short-term-oxygen-lo...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/31/bay-bengal-depleted-fish-stocks-pollution-climate-change-migration https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/31/bay-beng...
- raverbashing 10y agoWell, it's evolutionary pressure in action. Plankton will survive, and the ones who survive will have more food available Algae will probably avail of the increased CO2 concentrations as well.
- FrozenVoid 10y agoEvolution doesn't care if specific X species survives in its niche, but X species could be much more important than Y species. Extinction of keystone species(plankton X) will trigger dieoff down the food chain. Survivor species(plankton Y) which exploits extinction event environment don't have to contribute to the food chain: https://www.ecomagazine.com/news/science/indian-ocean-fish-die-off-linked-to-plankton-species https://www.ecomagazine.com/news/science/indian-ocean-fish-d...
- CreRecombinase 10y agoThat's not how that works. CO2 is not a limiting reagent in photosynthesis.