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Environment & Energy

hunter

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3. The ocean is already a huge carbon sink and that's bad for life as we know it.

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 8, 2025, 10:23 AM

Sep 8

We're pulling blocks out of a Jenga tower and entire oceanic ecosystems could suddenly collapse.

Killing the oceans to support our fossil fuel addiction doesn't seem like a good plan.

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Shocked, Shocked: "Carbon Capture" Potential 1/10th Of Prior Estimates - There Just Aren't Enough Suitable Sites [View all] hatrack Sep 8 OP

Like hydrogen, with which it often appears, it has always been fossil fuel greenwashing. NNadir Sep 8 #1

One possible site might be the oceans. No, not garbage. CO2 plus seawater calcium make CaCO3. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 8 #2

The ocean is already a huge carbon sink and that's bad for life as we know it. hunter Sep 8 #3

Yes, I don't know much about CO2 sequestration into seawater, but ocean acid levels are rising with atmospheric CO2. .nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 8 #4

Yeah, nah . . . put it this way - a British English name for carbon dioxide is "carbonic acid" . . . hatrack Sep 8 #5