Global ocean is absorbing more carbon from fossil-fuel emissions
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Scientists see four-fold increase in ocean’s annual carbon uptake
The global ocean absorbed 34 billion metric tons of carbon from the burning of fossil fuels from 1994 to 2007 -- a four-fold increase to 2.6 billion metric tons per year when compared to the period starting from the Industrial Revolution in 1800 to 1994.
Scientists collecting samples from a CTD (Conductivity-Temperature-Depth) rosette.
NOAA scientists gathered extensive water samples from the global ocean from NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown for the newly published analysis of carbon dioxide uptake in the global ocean.
