A Dartmouth-led study proposes a new method for recruiting trillions of microscopic sea creatures called zooplankton in the fight against climate change by converting carbon into food the animals would eat, digest, and send deep into the ocean as carbon-filled feces.
  • superkret
    11·
    13 days ago

    This idea was already publicized and dispelled when I was in university studying Climatology, 15 years ago.
    It fucks up the oceans’ pH balance, likely kills off more marine life than it feeds, and >90% of the CO2 is re-emitted within a few years anyway, cause there’s no way an ecosystem will just let nutritious unoxidized carbon go to waste on the sea floor.

  • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
    5·
    13 days ago

    wouldn’t this make the ocean more acidic which is already a problem. I thought one of the problems with global warming was the ocean absorbing more co2 which makes it more acidic which destroys a lot of sea life.

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOP
      3·
      13 days ago

      It’s not being dissolved into the water, which would raise the acidity, but instead being sequestered into particles which sink to the bottom.

      I won’t say there is definitely no unintended consequence, but I don’t think that one is likely to happen.

      • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com
        2·
        13 days ago

        Ok. I reread it and I can see that. first read it sounded like it was just getting dropped and processed by organisms deeper in the ocean. If it gets it out of reach of organisms that process it back to co2 then that would be good.