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Tag Archives: marine environment

Climate Change & Anthropocene Extinction 36: Ocean plastic outpaces warming & CO2 in race to bottom

Posted on November 23, 2017 by Rolf Schuttenhelm

Earth’s oceans currently take up almost 50% of our CO2 emissions and absorb over 90% of the heat the other half of the CO2 traps in the atmosphere. Both ocean CO2 and heat absorption will have major consequences for deep-sea … Continue reading →

Posted in Bits of Climate, Bits of Ecology, Science Backgrounds | Tagged Alan Jamieson, Andrew Sweetman, anoxia, Anthropocene, benthic ecosystems, California Institute of Technology, carbon cycle, Climate & Anthropocene Extinction, climate change, CO2 uptake, deep ocean, deep ocean heat uptake, Elementa - Science of the Anthropocene, Heriot-Watt University, Indian Ocean, marine ecology, marine environment, marine snow, Nature, Nature Climate Change, Newcastle University, ocean acidification, ocean plastic, ocean warming, oceans, Pacific, plastic pollution, Roland Geyer, Science Advances, William Llovel
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