{"id":368428,"date":"2018-07-07T17:52:54","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T16:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/three-climatic-monsters-with-asteroid-impact-part-2\/"},"modified":"2018-07-07T17:52:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T16:52:54","slug":"three-climatic-monsters-with-asteroid-impact-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/three-climatic-monsters-with-asteroid-impact-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Climatic Monsters with Asteroid Impact (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Continuing from <a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/07\/three-climatic-monsters-with-asteroid-impact\/\">Part 1<\/a>\u2026 Monster #2 Greenhouse Gases (\u201cGHG\u201d) alter ecosystems:<\/p>\n<p>The biggest impact of anthropogenic GHG hits the oceans. There is no doubt about the importance of the oceans as a great sink, 2\/3rds of the planet. After all, the oceans have saved humanity\u2019s butt ever since industrialization started emitting CO2 over 200 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Sorrowfully, CO2 with consequent global warming, when excessive, literally kills the oceans. As it happens, the oceans absorb 30-40% of CO2 and 80-90% of planetary heat. Otherwise, one can only imagine the awesomely horrendous, gruesome, horrid consequences, but maybe not, as human imagination has trouble focusing on total annihilation. It never seems a reality.<\/p>\n<p>However, a new carbon sink theory claims the oceans have maxed-out, thus unable to absorb additional CO2 after taking up approximately 130B tons of CO2 over the past century (all-time approximately 38,000 gigatons of CO2, which is 16xs terrestrial<br \/>CO2).<\/p>\n<p>Further to the point, it is believed the oceans could reverse course and start emitting CO2, a \u201creverse sink,\u201d at some juncture. The implications are daunting, putting it oh so mildly.<\/p>\n<p>Also, dreadfully, ocean chemistry is changing because of excessive CO2, more acidic, thus imperiling the life cycle of pteropods, tiny pea-like free-swimming snails at the base of the food chain that multiply by the billions, maybe trillions, serving as a source of sustenance for everything from krill to large whales&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/07\/three-climatic-monsters-with-asteroid-impact-part-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing from Part 1\u2026 Monster #2 Greenhouse Gases (\u201cGHG\u201d) alter ecosystems: The biggest impact of anthropogenic GHG hits the oceans. There is no doubt about the importance of the oceans as a great sink, 2\/3rds of the planet. After all, the oceans have saved humanity\u2019s butt ever since industrialization started emitting CO2 over 200 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-368428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}