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Originally Posted by freebeard
IDK how to get from CO 2 to calthrates. The oceans have staved off our demise:
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It would be way out ahead of nothin'!
We're putting 300-billion into the atmosphere, of which a portion would go into the ocean.
As ocean water warms, it loses carbon-dioxide solubility, and loses ability as a carbon 'sink' the warmer it gets.
It also turns into carbonic acid, making it harder for shellfish and crustaceans to form shells and exoskeletons.
At 'Minerva's Castle, in Yellowstone National Park you can see this playing backwards, as dissolved calcium carbonate, carbonic ' volcanic' water emerges, evaporates, and leaves behind the dissolved solids to form the 'castle.' Kinda like stalactites do in a cave.