How do marine plants help stop global warming??

Question

Someone told me but never explained

Answer 1

This link explains better then I could.

http://cdiac2.esd.ornl.gov/ocean.html

Answer 2

I have herd that many of them are switching to solar and wave energy to help eliminate the use of fossil fuels.

Answer 3

Marine plants absorb carbon dioxide, just like plants on land. In fact, about two thirds of all plant life in the world lives in the ocean, mainly in the form of fytoplankton. It is incredibly important.

Incidentally, Mustang is wrong, and yet he is right: Global warming does exist, but it is a mere blip in the natural climate cycle. It is indeed entirely possible we will be worrying about global cooling in 50 years, since that's what we were doing 50 years AGO (and which a lot of people appear to have forgotten).

Meanwhile, our descendants might be grateful if we, with our global warming efforts, have managed to put off the next ice age for a century or so...

Answer 4

because it lets out oxigen

Answer 5

they do nothing to help stop global warming. global warming doesn't exist. It's a natural earth cycle. In 500 years, liberals will be worried about global cooling

Answer 6

All plants absorb co2 and release oxygen. All amimals do just the opposite, breathe oxygen and exhale co2.

Answer 7

Forgive me for cutting and pasting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankton

"As stated, phytoplankton fix carbon in sunlit surface waters via photosynthesis. Through (primarily) zooplankton grazing, this carbon enters the planktonic foodweb, where it is either respired to provide metabolic energy, or accumulates as biomass or detritus. As living or dead organic material is typically more dense than seawater it tends to sink, and in open ocean ecosystems away from the coasts this leads to the transport of carbon from surface waters to the deep. This process is known as the biological pump, and is one of the reasons that the oceans constitute the largest (active) pool of carbon on Earth"