Poster's notes : General : I'd encourage readers to publish their own work to the list - especially if it's peer reviewed. Specific : A CEC-14 plenary talk about ocean CO2 uptake stated that pH stratification was a very serious problem, and that relying on late-onset CDR could cause major issues with an alkaline surface ocean and an acidic pelagic ocean.
Global Environmental Change Handbook of Global Environmental Pollution Volume 1, 2014, pp 817-824 Date: 11 Jul 2014 Enhancing the Ocean’s Role in CO2 Mitigation Greg H. Rau Abstract The equivalent of about 1/4 of annual anthropogenic CO2 emissions is absorbed and stored by the ocean, and the sea plays the primary role in naturally removing excess atmospheric CO2 on geologic timescales. Ways of safely enhancing or augmenting this carbon uptake and storage therefore have the potential to contribute significantly to atmospheric CO2 stabilization efforts. Various physical, chemical, biological, and hybrid strategies of increasing ocean CO2 uptake or reducing CO2 leakage have been proposed. Further research is needed to better determine the full range of options and their costs, benefits, impacts, and overall desirability as CO2 mitigation methods. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
