NOT if We AND- the Melting Ice at the Poles- are releasing MORE CO2 by Capacity ( the Amount ), than the Expanding Oceans can take Up- as they Rise !! :)
Alec suggests that water doesn't absorb much but in fact the oceans hold over 50 times as much carbon as does the atmosphere. Excess CO2 is always absorbed into the ocean in places where the ocean is cold and the CO2 isn't saturated. The ocean also always precipitates carbon compounds as animal shells and as chemical precipitates in places where the water is warm and the carbon compounds are saturated.
Most of the sea level rise so far is due to the oceans warming rather than ice melt. Warming causes water to expand because the molecules become more active and more spaced from each other, not because there are more molecules. To the extent that future melting of land ice adds to sea level by adding incremental molecules, the oceans will absorb a bit more CO2 but as, pegminor explains, not a near the scale to stop the increase in CO2 in the atmosphere.
Already the oceans are absorbing additional CO2 as they warm. That is something that never happens during natural warming: the oceans throw off more CO2 as they warm except that now there is already so much more in the atmosphere. See: Ocean Acidification.
Not at sure what you're driving at?
Are you saying that there hasn't been much visible sea level rise, so there obviously can't be an increase in CO2?
Quite obviously CO2 has increased. In fact, about 40%
https://www.google.com/search?q=keeling+...
OR, are you saying that because you haven't noticed an increase in CO2 (which we can't see) then there must not have been any glacial melt?
There has.
http://www.nrmsc.usgs.gov/repeatphoto/ov...
The volume of the oceans is quite large.
70% of the surface of the earth, maybe 2 miles deep.
If all of the glaciers everywhere melted, it would result in only 200 feet of ocean rise.
That would pretty much wipe out Florida, and lots of other coastal regions,
but it would be a fairly small percentage increase in the total volume of the oceans.
Sea levels have risen slightly and will continue to rise The current rising is @3mm/year, which does increase the surface area slightly. As the temperature rises, the thermal expansion add to the rising seas. Also as the ocean temperature rises, this releases an increasing volume of CO2 This is one of the positive feedback loops The temp rises, oceans emit more CO2 and this adds to the CO2 release causing more warming and more increase in CO2 release and on and on SO that does not mean more CO2 absorbtion
water does NOT absorb large ammounts of gasses. take a bottle of carbonised sodaand shake violently until theres no more fizzing. measure the weight of a drink compare to original. besides, yes water and co2 form a weak solution of carbonic acid..
the SIGNIFICANT effect of co2 capture comes only from fytoplankton and corrals which both use co2 to build sugars and shells respectively. yet these are sensitive to ph swings.
botomline. im not an alarmist, just aquarist. its apparent that corrals and plankton CAN tackle ph swings and water level changes. question if whether humans willbe here to observe their recovery
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now typing on a full keyboard.. ugh. so, the water dissolves only SO MUCH co2 in given volume. the carbonated soda mentioned above is an extreme example, and even in that overpressurised case, you get maybe 20 grams of co2 per 2litres bottle that's a kilogram of CO2 per TONNE of water and that's quesstimate.
added to that, the gasses will follow the general rule, i.e. they would tend to follow the composition of ambient gas mixture, so not just co2 but nitrogen and oxygen would dilute in the same volume of water, following the composition of atmosphere.
really, the only option to effectively trap the co2 is reverting the cause of co2 rise.. which is using all the fossil fuels. we need to store the co2 in stable molecules like hydrocarbons, cellulose like nature did in the past. storing co2 in tanks is just a pathetic attempt by people who ride the co2 scarecrow subvention industry.
Actually there is not much melting going on, global sea ice is above average at this time, and sea level rise has slowed down a bit since 2004, but anyway the amount of CO2 that water can dissolve is more about it's temperature than it's volume
Global Warming ended in 2012, but their is a Arab Nomad from Opec oil thats been paying other countries $10 Billion a year to pour hundreds of millions of tons of dry land sand into saltwater and thats whats making the oceans rise. I through leaders have stopped him 3 years in a row, but now I dont know what other countries he has hired to continue. In may 2014, my freshwater solution and other solutions may lower all oceans, since my Global Teams are still extracting sand off the bottom of oceans around their own continents. Its too bad our country is'nt interested in helping. Mike
In general there is some disagreement between AGW people. Some of them telling that sea level will rise, others think that it will fall. So if we come to mathematical conclusion that opposite signs negate each other, nothing will happened with sea level nor with carbon dioxide level... =D
Basically, all I know from GCSE Science is that oceans, lakes and rivers absorb carbon dioxide, acting as sinks for CO2.
Then, Global Warming is causing the ice caps and glaciers to melt, causing the sea levels to rise. But doesn't that mean the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is absorbed by the excess water in the sea? So the effect of global warming would decrease as there is less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
I could be (probably be) completely wrong here, so help!
OMG INTERESTING !!!
