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Alternate, positive headline "Earth's water sinking more carbon, oxygen loss shows". CO2 is a potent fertilizer and is going to cause a lot of "blooms" and gen
by colechristensen 2y ago
Alternate, positive headline "Earth's water sinking more carbon, oxygen loss shows".
CO2 is a potent fertilizer and is going to cause a lot of "blooms" and general more life which is going to affect oxygen levels. Loss of oxygen is a dampening effect on this.
Every environmental article has to be about "danger" instead of just stating facts about what is happening now.
- jacobolus 2y agoIt seems fairly straightforward to claim that significantly changing water chemistry is very bad, or at least very risky, for aquatic ecosystems many of whose species are very sensitive to water chemistry. The "positive" here is supposed to be that widespread destruction of land ecosystems might be even more severe if not for the oceans also taking some of the damage? (I doubt that is true in the long run. Many global processes are dependent on functioning living oceans.)
- Johnny555 2y agoKind of like how fertilizer runoff is a good thing since it causes algae blooms, and more life is good right? Except that it disrupts existing ecosystems and can cause vast oxygen-free dead zones.
- colechristensen 2y agoOne of the things we should be doing is intentionally fertilizing oceans, particularly the "deserts" where not much grows at all, as an intentional way to cause blooms and sink carbon.
- Johnny555 2y agoYes, let's not stop doing the thing that we know is destroying our ecosystem, and instead, lets try a mass geoengineering effort when we are incapable of knowing what unintended side effects will happen when we do it on a large scale.