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Published online 22 October 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2007.186

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Greenhouse-gas levels accelerating

Decline in oceans' ability to store carbon partly to blame, study suggests.

Levels of greenhouse gases are rising faster this decade than they did during the 1990s, according to a new analysis. The research blames the acceleration on a combination of factors, including economic growth, intensive fossil-fuel use and, perhaps most worringly, an apparent decline in the oceans' ability to suck up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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  • Easy explanation for the decrease in greenhouse effect gases uptake by oceans: as global temperatures increase, so does sea temperatures. Hot liquids can accept as solute a smaller amount of gases than cold liquids, one step more and oceans will start releasing greenhouse effect gases from its pool. Does anybody know if the so called wet-greenhouse, with temperatures tending to those of Venus is a realistic possibility, or the thing that can happen is just a dry, hot world ?. At small warmings cyclonic wheather will increase, thus more global rain, hurricanes and low barometric pressure wheather. Were we facing a new glacial age ? Jose Gros Aymerich, MD, Madrid, Spain

    • 24 Oct, 2007
    • Posted by: Jose Gros-Aymerich
  • There will not be any constructive solution to stop the Adverse effects of Future climate by the existing research methodologis. Adverse effects of Climate due to fossil fuel burning is some thing fundamentally related to one's qualities of Li-pAGE.

    • 27 Oct, 2007
    • Posted by: TirupatiReddy Keshav