{"id":594,"date":"2009-05-04T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/?p=594"},"modified":"2009-05-09T15:05:55","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T22:05:55","slug":"594","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/594\/","title":{"rendered":"CO2 buffering capacity of our oceans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The equivalent of ~25% of current anthropegenic CO2 additions to the atmospheric reservoir is buffered by the oceans:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-593\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ocean_co2_flux.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-593\" title=\"ocean_co2_flux\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ocean_co2_flux-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"ocean_co2_flux\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ocean_co2_flux-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ocean_co2_flux-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ocean_co2_flux.jpg 1824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Net moles CO2 m-2 yr-1 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dissolved CO2 exists as different species: CO2(aq), HCO3-(aq) and CO3=(aq). Ocean pH is the dominant control on this speciation, itself a function of pCO2:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_648\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-648\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dic1.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dic2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-652\" title=\"Dissolved Inorganic Carbon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dic2.jpg\" alt=\"dic2\" width=\"508\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dic2.jpg 1016w, https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/dic2-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dissolved Inorganic Carbon (&#39;DIC&#39;) speciation (in log(mol per litre) units) as a function of ocean pH. Partial pressure of CO2 (in log(pCO2, atm) units) also shown. {www.realfuture.org}<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CO2 speciation greatly affects CO2 fluxing across the ocean-atmosphere boundary, as only non-ionized species (that is, CO2(aq)) are free to exchange with the atmosphere. Anthropogenic increases in ocean acidity can be expected to greatly lower the CO2 buffering capacity of our oceans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The equivalent of ~25% of current anthropegenic CO2 additions to the atmospheric reservoir is buffered by the oceans: Dissolved CO2 exists as different species: CO2(aq), HCO3-(aq) and CO3=(aq). Ocean pH is the dominant control on this speciation, itself a function of pCO2: CO2 speciation greatly affects CO2 fluxing across the ocean-atmosphere boundary, as only non-ionized &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/594\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CO2 buffering capacity of our oceans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-climate-destabilization"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}