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Posted Tue Apr 20 2010: from
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Climate Damage Confirmed To Be Serious, Extensive http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1271789104
Internationally respected Mbari ocean chemist Peter Brewer says 85 percent of greenhouse gas emissions come from automobiles and fossil fuel power plants, their output equaling a million tons of carbon dioxide every hour dissolving into the ocean.
"In the long term future, where there'll be a huge swath of ocean, that will be inhospitable to marine life," said Brewer.
Research published Friday suggested that deep oceans are hiding heat that will likely accelerate global warming, spawn repeated El Nino's and quicken ocean catastrophes.... The net effect experts say, is greenhouse gas levels are greater now and rising faster than at any time humans have been on earth
"We're putting so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that the biosphere just can't catch up," said Baldocchi.... But scientists like Brewer and Baldocchi are pessimistic, saying climate change is happening too fast.
"I think we're going to have these changes, I wish we didn't, we better work hard to try and undo them, but right now there's not a good path for doing that," said Brewer.
"Sure we'll live, we'll survive, it just might not be a very nice world.," said Baldocchi.
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