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[–] 66 points 6 months ago (2 children)

We're working on it. Oceans are taking up more CO2 every day

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    The oceans have plenty of CO2, the stuff that makes soda fizzy. The ocean is actually one of the largest CO2 sinks on earth. The ocean also has plenty of bubbles to make it "fizzy", but there is a fuckton more volume of liquid that you don't get the fizz like a soda as a general rule. So not quite flat as you say.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Is all the co2 distributed evenly or would there be more co2 absorbed in areas where it is colder and less in warmer areas?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Good question. Here is a quote from NOAA

    A map of the anthropogenic CO2 ocean column inventory shows that the carbon is not evenly distributed in space. More than 23% of the inventory can be found in the North Atlantic, a region covering approximately 15% of the global ocean. By contrast, the region south of 50°S represents approximately the same ocean area but only has ~9% of the global inventory.

    The site above also explains the life cycle of CO2 in the earth's oceans.

    Good information and REAL numbers.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago

    Omg!!! A true showerthought, you say? In the showerthoughts community? I believed they were extinct! Thank you!!!

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    The earth's oceans are essentially condensation on the side of a can, the real earth soda is beneath the crust.

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