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Shahid Amin's avatar

This summarised version of the earlier research articles is just superb. All cocooned into one easy digestible form. Fantastic

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Shahid Amin's avatar

I wish somebody had paid attention to these warnings, and had taken precautions before Brush fores broke out.

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cliff Krolick's avatar

Dying oceans from excesses of Co2 are generating carbonic acid= ocean acidification. Why are there major excesses of Co2

Diatoms Single-celled microscopic organisms are the most important foundation part of the Marine food chain and are one of natures' most powerful biological mechanisims for cooling the planet

Oceans are dying, Excesses of Co2 are not devoured fast enough by the Diatomic phytoplankton cause of a severe lack in the delivery of nutrients. Fragmented and in most cases completey blocked for long periods of time, the major rivers , critical delivery system of most of nutrients, silica, and elements from land to rivers to ocean marine life is detained behind large dams 400-800' tall

Healthy populations of diatoms depend on nutrient and silica rich waters and can fixate up to 25% of the worlds Co2.  But as NASA (https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11934) pointed out we are losing 1% of Diatom population since 1998 -2012 per year. We believe dam impounded rivers no longer supply a strong spring pulse energy that is essential for nutrients and silica to be upwelled from deeper waters into the shallower waters along continental shelves where Diatom populations reside

*Diatoms should be considered one of our planet’s immune Systems. Like forests sequestering Co2 on land, Diatoms do the same floating on the top water layers along the continental shelves of our oceans..

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