Ocean Carbon Sequestration

Ocean microbe communities changing, but long-term environmental impact is unclear

9 Feb 2012

( Oregon State University ) As oceans warm due to climate change, water layers will mix less and affect the microbes and plankton that pump carbon out of the atmosphere - but researchers say it's still unclear whether these processes will further increase global warming or decrease it. It could be either, they say.

Pacific Carbon Pump Speeds Up In Summer

9 Feb 2012

An international team of scientists led by University of Hawaiʻi at M�noa oceanographer David Karl has documented a regular, significant and unexpected increase in the amount of particulate matter exported to the deep sea in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. They suspect the previously undocumented phenomenon may be a response to day length, a general phenomenon known as photoperiodism ...

Murdoch’s WSJ Misleads on Climate

31 Jan 2012

Exclusive: Despite a broad consensus among scientists that global warming is real and dangerous, Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal and other right-wing media have made climate-denial a central tenet of U.S. conservatism, requiring endless distortions, as Sam Parry observes.