El Nino Blamed for Record Carbon Dioxide Levels

By SETH BORENSTEIN | May 24, 2016

  • May 24, 2016 at 5:56 pm
    Rosco says:
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    I thought that increases in atmospheric CO2 would be expected as ocean temperatures rise. After all CO2 is less soluble in warmer water and is also less soluble as pH levels drop.

    The oceans contain much more CO2 than the atmosphere. The levels of solubility of CO2 in the oceans IS limited by temperature and pH.

    The atmosphere has NO constraints on the “solubility” of CO2.

    Why should I believe increases in atmospheric CO2 are not primarily due to releases from the oceans due to warming and some slight shift in pH ?

    Both of these reported trends – slightly warmer oceans and slightly lower pH values – although still nowhere near “acidic” – must release ocean dissolved CO2 to the atmosphere – not the reverse as claimed.

    Or are the fundamental chemical properties of CO2 in water wrong somehow ?



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